Noailly, Joëlle; Smeets, Roger - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
This paper investigates the determinants of directed technical change at the firm level in the electricity generation sector. We use firm-level data on patents filed in renewable (REN) and fossil fuel (FF) technologies by 5,261 European firms over the period 1978-2006. We investigate how energy...