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How to reverse the dangerous decline in low-carbon innovation
Greater public funding for low-carbon R&D and higher and stable carbon pricing mechanisms are essential to achieve Paris climate goals says Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute. read more »
Staying with the leaders: Europe’s path to a successful low-carbon economy
Neuhoff, K., Acworth, W., Dechezleprêtre, A., Dröge, S., Sartor, O., Sato, M., Schleicher, S., and Schopp, A. 2014. Climate Strategies. Berlin, Germany and London, UK.
Climate change policies and the UK business sector: overview, impacts and suggestions for reform
The UK has a complex system of energy taxes which affect the business sector. Overlaps between taxes mean that carbon prices are uneven across sectors and fuels, and … read more »
Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies: a patent citation analysis
How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to investigate the relative intensity of knowledge spillovers in clean … read more »
Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry
This paper analyses the relative influence of domestic and foreign demand-pull policies in wind power across OECD countries on the rate of innovation in this technology. We use annual … read more »
Fast-tracking “green” patent applications: an empirical analysis
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of programmes to fast-track ‘green’ patent applications in place in seven Intellectual Property offices around the world. We find … read more »
Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) … read more »
Environmental policy and directed technological change: evidence from the European carbon market
This paper was updated in February 2013 This paper investigates the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)on technological change. We exploit installations-level inclusion … read more »
What drives the international transfer of climate change mitigation technologies? Empirical evidence from patent data
Technology transfer plays a key role in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we characterize the factors that promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies using detailed patent data from 96 countries for the period 1995–2007. read more »
Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry
This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in wind power, using patent data from OECD countries from … read more »
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