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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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The Future Costs of Nuclear Power Using Multiple Expert Elicitations : Effects of RD&D and Elicitation Design
Diaz Anadon, Laura; Nemet, Gregory F.; Verdolini, Elena - 2014
Characterizing the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on …
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The Relationship between Environmental Efficiency and Manufacturing Firm's Growth
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2009
of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance … characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal …
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The Effects of Expert Selection, Elicitation Design, and R&D Assumptions on Experts’ Estimates of the Future Costs of Photovoltaics
Verdolini, Elena; Diaz Anadon, Laura; Lu, Jiaqi; Nemet, … - 2015
Expert elicitations of future energy technology costs can improve energy policy design by explicitly characterizing uncertainty. However, the recent proliferation of expert elicitation studies raises questions about the reliability and comparability of the results. In this paper, we standardize...
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Environmental Research Joint Ventures and Time-Consistent Emission Tax
Ouchida, Yasunori; Goto, Daisaku - 2014
This paper presents an examination of the socially efficient formation of environmental R&D in Cournot duopoly in a setting where a regulator has no precommitment ability for an emission tax. The results reveal that if the environmental damage is slight, alternatively, given severe environmental...
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Facing the Experts : Survey Mode and Expert Elicitation
Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Jenni, Karen E.; … - 2014
In this paper we compare the results of two different expert elicitation methods: in-person interviews and a self-administered web-based survey. Traditional expert elicitation has been done face to face, with an elicitor meeting with an expert for a few hours to several days, depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149504
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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...
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Future Costs of Key Low-Carbon Energy Technologies : Harmonization and Aggregation of Energy Technology Expert Elicitation Data
Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; Diaz Anadon, Laura; … - 2015
In this paper we standardize, compare, and aggregate results from thirteen surveys of technology experts, performed over a period of five years using a range of different methodologies, but all aiming at eliciting expert judgment on the future cost of five key energy technologies and how future...
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Environmentally-Oriented Innovative Strategies and Firm Performances in Services - Micro-Evidence from Italy
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2015
This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present …
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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 …
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