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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector : Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
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Which Innovations for a Circular Business Model? A Product Life-Cycle Approach
Chioatto, Elisa; Zecca, Emy; D'Amato, Alessio - 2020
The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089887
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking - Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2015
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050846
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From Energy-Intensive to Innovation-Led Growth : On the Transition Dynamics of China's Economy
Jin, Wei - 2014
Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has significant implication for energy and climate governance. Building on a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model incorporating the mechanism of endogenous technological change and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043116
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China's Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Development : Harnessing the New Engine of Technological Innovation
Jin, Wei - 2016
Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996437
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Transition Towards a Green Economy in Europe : Innovation and Knowledge Integration in the Renewable Energy Sector
Conti, Chiara - 2018
A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system may hinder knowledge flows and, consequently, spillovers across member countries. A low intensity of knowledge flows across EU states can negatively impact their technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935118
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The Future Prospects of Energy Technologies : Insights from Expert Elicitations
Verdolini, Elena - 2017
future cost and performance of specific energy technologies and the associated uncertainty. This article reviews the existing …
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Environmental Performance and Regional Innovation Spillovers
Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2010
The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local …, innovation spillovers and regional policies in shaping the geographical distribution of environmental performance achievements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190601
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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings : The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation
Noailly, Joëlle - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of alternative environmental policy instruments on technological innovations aiming to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190603
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ETS and Technological Innovation : A Random Matching Model
Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - 2012
The present paper investigates the functioning of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and its impact on the diffusion of environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviors and sanctions to non-compliant firms. For this purpose, we study an evolutionary...
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