Impure public technologies and environmental policy
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Public Policy and Environmental Research and Development
The paper evaluates several potential public policies to increase research and development (R&D) investments with the goal of introducing innovations to reduce harmful industrial emissions. The policies – new preinnovation taxes, more stringent emissions regulations, promotion of cooperative R&D, promotion of outside financing from other companies and from the public, diplomacy to encourage emi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Studies
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0144-3585
DOI: 10.1108/01443581211222626