"Die gerechteste Verteilung von positiven und negativen Innovationsfolgen, die rascheste Verbreitung der Vorteile und die rascheste Beseitigung negativer Verteilungswirkungen finden wir in einer flexiblen Wirtschaftsgesellschaft mit hohem Wirtschaftswachstum ... Das wichtigste Rezept wäre ... ,...

Italian manufacturing ¯rms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 abatement costs in the long term. Can such efforts be induced by price instruments? Economists often cite induced technological change as a possible consequence of environmental...