This paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient technologies. We conclude that political economy...

We contribute to the existing research about policy-induced technology adoption in several ways. First, we suggest a new survey design to measure the energy-related policy environment. Second, we simultaneously estimate the policy effects for the adoption propensity and the adoption intensity...

Im 21. Jahrhundert wird sich weltweit eine neue industrielle Revolution vollziehen. Kern dieser Revolution ist ein energietechnologischer Paradigmenwechsel, weg von fossilen hin zu regenerativen Energietechnologien. Dieser Paradigmenwechsel stellt die Politik nicht nur vor eine Vielzahl neuer...

This paper empirically investigates the effects of environmental policy, institutions, political orientation, and lobbying on energy innovation and finds that they significantly affect the incentives to innovate and create cleaner energy efficient technologies. We conclude that political economy...