A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries’ innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …

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 …

In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation we contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs …. Specifically, we model decisions about the technological innovation with convex costs within the framework of a game …-commitment. We find that for the case of technological innovation with convex costs subsidy policies are preferable over quota …

on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …. -- Environmental Policy ; Renewable Energy ; Market Structure ; Wind Turbines ; Innovation ; Patents ; Technological Change …

cooperate on innovation in the short term, and find that an R&D agreement slightly underperforms a climate policy based on the … global agreement on clean energy innovation beyond 2030 without sufficiently stringent GHG emissions reduction policies is …

available low carbon mitigation options, can promote innovation in new technologies and eventually generate welfare gains. We … due to both climate and innovation market failures. Our results show that phasing out nuclear power stimulates additional … R&D investments and deployment of infant technologies with large learning potential. The innovation benefits which this …

Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth …. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the …