This paper examines how the United States and China are implementing the most ambitious model of bilateral clean energy technology cooperation to date: The U.S.–China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). It finds that the CERC has been able to generate new IP through RD&D activities, though...

Technological progress is generally considered a key element in the move towards a less carbon-intensive energy use, and therefore public energy research expenditure has increased in many countries. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether relatively high subsidies to private energy...

This paper discusses a bottom-up approach to estimate the level of R&D investment by technology in areas where data are scarce. It develops a four-step methodology for the estimation of corporate R&D investments at technology level. This approach can overcome gaps in existing data by combining...

Die EU hat im Zusammenhang mit ihrer Klima- und Energiepolitik verschiedene Ziele für das Jahr 2020 festgesetzt. Zu diesen gehören zum einen die Reduzierung der Treibhausgasemissionen um 20% und die Erhöhung des Anteils erneuerbarer Energien auf 20% des gesamten europäischen...