This paper analyses optimal investments in innovation when dealing with a stringent climate target and with the … uncertain effectiveness of R&D. The innovation needed to achieve the deep cut in emissions is modelled by a backstop carbon … technological advancement yields higher investments in innovation and lower policy costs. We then confirm the results via a …

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

change, and in Part 3, we focus on issues related to the empirical analysis of technology innovation and diffusion. Finally …

environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain … innovation. Ambitious environmental standards, though, continue to be an important regulative precondition of ecologically benign … technological innovation. …

the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …