distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses …

energy related policies on domestic innovation activities. Under control of the respective domestic policy stringency, we …. Hence, we see that foreign policy impacts domestic innovation primarily from the demand side. We further find that foreign … subsidies negatively affect domestic innovation activities of foreign owned firms operating in domestic. Finally, we find that …

coordination between competition policy and innovation promotion policy, since the former basically aims at larger markets with …&D expenditures ; Persistence ; Innovation ; Competition ; Panel data ; Empirical investigation …

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …