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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263572
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an … industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386846
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Determinants of green innovation: The impact of internal and external knowledge
Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2012
impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities …. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock is positively related to green patent activities with a … countries are also positively related with industries' green patent activities, although with a significantly lower marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319700
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Climate-friendly technologies in the mobile air-conditioning sector: A patent citation analysis
Rave, Tilmann; Goetzke, Frank - 2011
fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an indicator of innovations and patent citations as a proxy for knowledge flows the … across patent applicant- and firm-types is analyzed. We find that most environmental patents originate from Germany and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312206
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On Growth and the Direction of Technological Change
Lindenberger, Dietmar - 2003
Recent econometric analyses of growth in industrialized countries reveal that energy?s elasticity of production systematically exceeds its factor cost share, whereas for labor the opposite holds. The paper reviews these analyses that reflect the observed direction of technological change towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263196
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United States economy, the evidence for other countries is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004
innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skillintensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292939
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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325207
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Technical change and economic growth: Some lessons from secular patterns and some conjectures on the impact of ICT technologies
Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni - 2008
This paper discusses the link between patterns of technological change and economic development taking an evolutionary perspective. We argue that the modes and timing of such coupled dynamics are deeply influenced by the emergence of new techno-economic paradigms or regimes. ICT-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328474
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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012
patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309806