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Preparing for the Next, Very Long Crisis: Towards a ‘Cool’ Science and Technology Policy Agenda For a Globally Warming Economy

David, Paul A. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This short paper on a very big subject deals with a worry - a worry that the present economic crisis is likely to contribute to the already-existing temptations of governmental and private actors alike to behave in a time-inconsistent fashion when responding to the challenge of climate change....

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Political connection heterogeneity and corporate innovation

Zhang, Rui; Xiong, Zhengling; Li, Honghuan; Deng, Baijun - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 7 (2022) 3, pp. 1-12

This paper examines whether political connection heterogeneity plays a role in corporate innovation in a sample of all … listed firms in China from 2008 to 2016. Our results show that connections with central government officials promote … innovation, while connections with local government officials inhibit innovation. The nonconformity between the influence of …

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The impact of venture capital monitoring : evidence from a natural experiment

Bernstein, Shai; Giroud, Xavier; Townsend, Richard R. - 2013

) innovation and (2) the likelihood of a successful exit. We rule out selection effects by exploiting an exogenous source of …

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Boosting sluggish climate policy : endogenous substitution, learning, and energy efficiency improvements

Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias; Miftakhova, Alena - 2024 - This version: March 12, 2024

There is widespread concern that climate policy is moving too slowly and that decarbonization of economic development is coming too late for effective climate protection. We analyze three different effects that emerge endogenously during decarbonization and amplify current policies: growing...

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Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs

Santoleri, Pietro; Russo, Emanuele - 2023

In the attempt to boost innovation, policy-makers have enacted a myriad of programs targeting innovative start-ups in … subsidy allocation. Consistent with a reputation/certification mechanism, the increase in follow-on subsidies occurs for funds …

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Financing for innovation of Chinese listed firms

Ju, Xiaosheng; Chen, Jiao; Tan, Qi - In: The Singapore economic review : journal of the Economic … 65 (2020) 4, pp. 1007-1032

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Firm boundaries matter: Evidence from conglomerates and R&D activity

Seru, Amit - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 2, pp. 381-405

This paper examines the impact of the conglomerate form on the scale and novelty of corporate Research and Development (R&D) activity. I exploit a quasi-experiment involving failed mergers to generate exogenous variation in acquisition outcomes of target firms. A difference-in-differences...

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On the Failure of R&D Projects

Link, Albert N.; wright, mike - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2015

Innovation Research (SBIR) program, of which 624 had been discontinued prior to technical completion, we provide for the first …

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Boosting sluggish climate policy: Endogenous substitution, learning, and energy efficiency improvements

Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias; Miftakhova, Alena - 2024

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Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations : A Micro-Econometric Analysis of their Determinants

Ziegler, Andreas - 2008

non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation … products when the implementation of all innovation types is to be supported. …

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