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Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
Verdolini, Elena; Bak, Céline; Ruet, Joël; … - 2018
The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806433
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Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
Verdolini, Elena; Bak, Céline; Ruet, Joël; … - 2018
The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779979
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Environmental regulation and innovation in renewable energy technologies : does the policy instrument matter?
Hille, Erik; Althammer, Wilhelm; Diederich, Henning - 2019 - Version February 24, 2019
We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230967
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Green technologies, complementarities, and policy
Barbieri, Nicolò; Marzucchi, Alberto; Rizzo, Ugo - 2021
The present study explores the technological complementarities between green and nongreen inventions. First, we look at whether inventive activities in climate-friendly domains depend on patenting in related technological domains that are not green. Based on patent data filed over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313196
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Mirage on the horizon : geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment
Acemoglu, Daron; Rafey, Will - 2018
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820231
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The bias of technological change in Europe
Vogel, Johanna; Kratena, Kurt; Hranyai, Kathrin - 2015
This paper is concerned with measuring and influencing the direction of technological change. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the factor bias of technological change using panel data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) for 25 EU countries from 1995 to 2009. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340224
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From energy-intensive to innovation-led growth : on the transition dynamics of China’s economy
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459894
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China's pursuit of environmentally sustainable development : harnessing the new engine of technological innovation
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2016
investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451689
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On the mechanism of international technology diffusion for energy productivity growth
Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
-country differences in the efficiency of foreign technology absorption and indigenous innovation lead to cross-country divergence in the … undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344238
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China's Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development : Harnessing the New Engine of Technological Innovation
Jin, Wei - 2016
investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000167