contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …

technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across … countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement sustainable growth by directing global innovation to the nonpolluting … sector. If nonparticipants drive global innovation, this requires policies relocating clean production to nonparticipants. A …

investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …

firms that innovate in both technologies. We find that for specialized firms the main drivers of innovation are fossil … innovation. By contrast, we find that innovation by mixed firms is mainly driven by strong path-dependencies since for these … firms past knowledge stock is the major driver of the direction of innovation. These results imply that generic …

Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU …