industrial organisation literature on innovation to explore the causes of this decline, and shows that it was predicted by the … operating efficiency of the sector. Despite this, a lasting decline in basic R&D and innovation input into basic research may … negatively affect development of radical technological innovation in the long run. There is a need for reorientation of energy …

potential for financial venture capital or public policy to meaningfully reintroduce vigor in CET innovation have been … venture capital in funding innovation in clean energy, especially in light of the lessons learned over the past decade in the … innovation …

studies which highlight the systemic nature of innovation, this paper argues that a radical technological change needs an … into account the systemic interdependencies between innovation policies and the supporting institutions. European and … successes and failures. The creation of a new regulatory body (the Office for Innovation and Climate Change) with the task of …

progress of EU electricity sector liberalisation. These areas are market design, market power, EU enlargement, regulation, and …

liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers … input choice. Ownership is controlled for in the law of motion for productivity. The results of the dataset used to validate … the model show that firm-level productivity did not increase after 2008 and that ownership had no effect on productivity …

assessing the impacts of complete vertical separation, such as ownership unbundling, on the quality of service delivered by a … robust evidence that ownership unbundling contributed to a fall in the duration and frequency of supply interruptions in … quality of service may improve when largely accounted in incentive regulation frameworks than completely relying on specific …

. Then we go on to discuss emerging good practice in the regulation of national electricity markets in the EU. This is … important because it reflects the key role placed on independent regulation of the electricity sector in the EU reform model …