Lee, Jaegul; Veloso, Francisco M.; Hounshell, David A. - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 9, pp. 1240-1252
This article uses a carefully screened patent database in automobile emission control technologies and a detailed regulatory action analysis to examine firms’ innovation in response to U.S. technology-forcing auto emissions standards enacted between 1970 and 1998. The study finds that under...