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Quelles politiques de l'innovation et de l'environnement pour quelle dynamique d'innovation environnementale ?

Depret, Marc-Hubert; Hamdouch, Abdelillah - In: Innovations n° 29 (2009) 1, pp. 127-147

While there is today a large consensus around the extent and causes of climate change and the environment deterioration as well as on their mid-long term economic consequences if nothing is done, the international community remains divided regarding the nature, the scale and the schedule of the...

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Cannibalization & Incentives in Venture Financing

ARPING, Stefan - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2002

This paper considers the effects of strategic substitutabilities on performance and incentives in venture capital … setting performance incentives, and (ii) coordinating and shaping the product market strategies of ventures operating in … product market strategies. In contrast, small strategic substitutabilities can lead to more aggressive performance incentives …

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Competition in the Cloud: Unleashing Investment and Innovation Within and Across Platforms

COWEN, Tim; GAWER, Annabelle - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 45-62

Innovation in the cloud is challenging Europe's telecoms industry and its regulatory system. The shift from 'desktop to data centre' and the provision of computing in the form of a service means that cloud offerings are increasingly dependent on the quality of the underlying communications...

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The Effect of a College Pen Incentive on Survey Response Rate Among Recent College Graduates

Stange, Jonathan P.; Zyzanski, Stephen J. - In: Evaluation Review 35 (2011) 1, pp. 93-99

Incentives have shown a variable effect in improving survey response rates, but the effect of a pen from an organization to which the respondent has loyalty has not been studied. Recent college graduates were randomized to receive or not receive a college logo pen accompanying an initial survey...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Teacher incentives in South Africa: a theoretical investigation of the possibilities

Armstrong, Paula - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014

This paper investigates different theoretical models of incentives for teachers in education. It highlights key characteristics likely to render incentives successful in encouraging productive behaviour, provides evidence of where these systems have been successfully and unsuccessfully...

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Large-scale risks and technological change: What about limited liability?

SPAETER, Sandrine; JACOB, Julien - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2014

We consider a firm under strict liability that must choose between two risky technologies, one being safer but costlier than the other one. The total potential level of damage increases with the level of activity. We show that, under limited liability, technological change is welfare improving...

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Who will close the energy efficiency gap? A quantitative study of what characterizes ambitious housing firms in Sweden

Högberg, Lovisa - Institutionen för fastigheter och byggande, Kungliga … - 2015

This paper reports the results from a study that attempts to identify factors that characterize housing firms with particularly ambitious approaches to energy efficiency in connection to renovation. The aim of the study was to identify factors that correlate with ambitious firms and the market...

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Large-scale risks and technological change: What about limited liability?

Jacob, Julien; Spaeter, Sandrine - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2010

We consider a firm that has to choose a technology to produce a given good. This technology drives a multiplicative large-scale risk of incident for Society: the total potential level of damage increases with the level of activity. Contrary to what is often argued in the literature, we show that...

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Climate change and incentives for investment in clean technologies: Can we correct the biggest market failure in history by creating more markets?

Gutman, Verónica Cecilia - In: Economía 34 (2009) 27, pp. 11-35

This article analyzes a key issue regarding Climate Change: how to provide private enterprises with correct incentives in order to change their productive and innovative patterns and foster them to invest in research and development related with less greenhouse gasesintensive technologies. This...

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