Innovation and Environmental Policy: Clean vs. Dirty Technical Change

Framing Innovation Policy for Transformative Change: Innovation Policy 3.0

Environmental Policy and Technological Change

The relationship between technological change and environmental policy has received increasing attention from scholars and policy makers alike over the past ten years. This is partly because the environmental impacts of social activity are significantly affected by technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions themselves create new constraints and incentives that a...

Uncertainty, Technical Change, and Policy Models

Both climate change and technical change are uncertain. In this paper we show the importance of including both uncertainties when modeling for policy analysis. We then develop an approach for incorporating uncertainty of technical change into climate change policy analysis. We define and demonstrate a protocol for bottom-up expert assessments about prospects for technologies. We then describe a...

Are clean technology and environmental quality conflicting policy goals?

In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the clean technology may well increase the pollution level. We also compare the effects of an emission tax...

Environmental Labelling, Innovation and the Toolbox of Environmental Policy

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