We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …

This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …

innovation with the practices of the wider economy. Using a multi-sector endogenous growth model with in-house R&D and knowledge … spillovers, it is shown, that accounting for the time it takes for an innovation to diffuse modifies this widely-accepted result …

This paper examines the effects of firm-level innovation in carbon-abatement technologies on optimal cap …, and compare it to the individual cases of pure taxation and simple emissions cap. Innovation shifts the trade-off between … innovation effectiveness lowers the optimal emissions cap, and leads to relaxed price controls unless the slope of the marginal …

Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value …. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly … subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device …

Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value …. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly … subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device …

This paper examines the impact of a carbon tax on innovation in clean technologies in the transport sector. Rapid … understanding of the link between carbon pricing and clean innovation by providing the first empirical estimate in the transport … sector using patent data and applying the synthetic control method (SCM). We estimate the local effect on clean innovation of …