energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …. -- Innovation ; Technological Change ; Patents ; Energy-Efficiency ; Buildings ; Environmental Policy …

-country differences in the efficiency of foreign technology absorption and indigenous innovation lead to cross-country divergence in the … undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. …

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 …

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