This study challenges the implicit assumption of homogeneity in national institutional contexts made in past studies of (renewable) energy policy. We propose that institutional differences matter by focusing on several technology-specific and generic policy factors that can foster technology...

This paper examines the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy (RE) investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors. Using a novel combination of datasets and a longitudinal research design, we investigate the influence of different policy measures in...

The role of technological innovation in mitigating and adapting to climate change has received growing interest in recent years. Scholars have used innovation system (IS) frameworks to grasp the interdependencies of innovation in such complex settings. However, this literature has somewhat...

The impact of venture capital (VC) investment on innovation and technology commercialization as well as the influence of market capacity on venture capital firm decision-making has been extensively covered by the existing literature. However, the interdependency between investment that drives...

This paper examines the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy (RE) diffusion through corresponding investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors (i.e. investment/pension funds, banks and insurance companies). Capacity investment data is gathered...

In our paper we observe with an extensive database of press articles about venture capital the emergence and following evolution of the topic clean technology investing. We match our software-based analysis of the press discourse with investment data and observe high synchronicity of the...

In this paper, we discuss capital commitments from different sources of finance that are used in several key countries worldwide to finance clean technologies (CT). In the course of our analysis, we first elaborate on findings from literature that address the importance and implications of...