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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region

Peneder, Michael; Arvanitis, Spyridon; Rammer, Christian; … - 2017

For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH" region) we study the impact of policy instruments such as energy-related taxes, subsidies, standards and negotiated agreements, or other regulations on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...

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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment

Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …

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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...

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ICT-induced technological progress and employment: a happy marriage or a dangerous liaison? : a literature review

Sabadash, Anna - 2013

This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution theory - dominate the current economic debate. The first assumes that the labour-saving impact of technological progress is counterbalanced by various compensation mechanisms....

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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

research is needed to elaborate the design of systems of public procurement of AI innovation and for appropriately adjusting … the legal frameworks underpinning high-tech innovation, in particular dealing with patents created by AI. …

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The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake : immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence

Naudé, Wim - 2019

After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term concern is whether an artificial general intelligence (super-intelligence) can be controlled. This...

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Artificial intelligence : building a research agenda

Ratten, Vanessa - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 12 (2024) 1, pp. 7-16

innovation for competitive reasons. This article focuses on the link between artificial intelligence and international business …

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Chapter 25. Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator

Nagaoka, Sadao; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; Goto, Akira - 2010

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

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Chapter 22. The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture

Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W. - 2010

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …

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Chapter 3. Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics as Evolutionary Processes

Dosi, Giovanni; Nelson, Richard R. - 2010

in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …

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