recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplaybetween eco-efficiency, cognition and …. It emphasises therole cognition and institutions play in the adoption of green technologies byfirms. A cognitive …

This paper focuses on the relationship between technological innovation and international trade. In particular, the … effect of technological achievement on exports is studied. In order to measure technological innovation, the technological … classified into four groups according to their level of technological innovation: Leaders, Potential Leaders, Dynamic Adopters …

(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 …

change, and in Part 3, we focus on issues related to the empirical analysis of technology innovation and diffusion. Finally …