In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …

several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We …

reforms affect R&D investment and patent activity. First, a "micro" reformthat abolishes barriers to entry in the banking … suggests that whilst micro reforms boost innovation, macro reforms may appear negative. We test and find empirical support for …