This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy …

China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally … comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new … internationally comparable, quality-adjusted figures for applications made under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). We show that …

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …