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 …

Germany, we analyze how policy induced demand stimulates innovation. Taking the size of the market as a proxy for demand and … patent counts as a proxy for innovation, we find support that the presence of institutions enabling diffusion of GTs are … structural break by comparing the two institutional settings incorporated into the legal system in Germany, namely the …

Mitnahmegewinnen auch Gewinnzuwächse, welche die Grünstromproduzenten in Folge einer Innovation realisieren, gesenkt werden. Dieser … profits of the producers at a given production level and which system maximizes on the other hand the innovation incentives of … quota obligation, influences profits and innovation incentives of the producers. From a formal industrial economic model we …