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The role of industrial policies in the development of a competitive wind energy industry : the Danish and Chinese sectoral innovation systems

Botta, Enrico - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 32 (2016) 2, pp. 211-252

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Regional effects of a cluster-oriented policy measure : the case of the InnoRegio program in Germany

Brenner, Thomas; Emmrich, Carsten; Schlump, Charlotte - 2013

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … supported regions than in other (East) German regions. Developments are investigated for a time span including years before …

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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; Sun, Yi - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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Going offshore : investments in German wind energy under uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2015

Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German …

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Going Offshore : Investments in German Wind Energy Under Uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu - 2015

Employing a continuous-time real options modeling framework, this paper scrutinizes the incentives to invest in German …

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Wind turbine placement and externalities

Hoffmann, Patrick; Mier, Mathias - 2022

We apply Open Street Map to identify available placement cells and Global Wind Atlas to determine average wind speeds on a 500 x 500m grid in Germany (1.3 million cells). Minimum distances to obstacles such a roads and buildings leave 535,000 potential placement cells. We calculate...

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Dynamic heterogeneous R&D with cross-technologies interactions

Bondarev, Anton; Krysiak, Frank C. - 2017

In many countries, inducing large-scale technological changes has become an important policy objective, as in the context of climate policy or energy transitions. Such large-scale changes require the development of strongly interlinked technologies. But current economic models have little...

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Optimal R&D investment with learning-by-doing : multiple steady-states and thresholds

Greiner, Alfred; Bondarev, Anton - 2017

invests in horizontal and vertical innovations. We posit that learning-by-doing makes the process of quality improvements a …

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Natural Resources, National Income, and Resource Movement Effect under a Rent-Seeking Monopoly

Muradov, Anar - 2023

In this paper, a new model is developed by referring to the literature on Dutch disease and rent-seeking for explaining how a natural resource boom in the energy sector decreases national income and induces a resource movement effect under a rent-seeking monopoly. In such a model, it is shown...

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Optimal Experimentation in a Changing Environment

Keller, Godfrey; Rady, Sven - EconWPA - 1998

, and who maximises profits over an infinite horizon in continuous time. We show that there are two qualitatively very …

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