Does Foreign Environmental Policy Influence Domestic Innovation? Evidence from the Wind Industry

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu

doi:10.1007/s10640-013-9705-4

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“…Peters, Schneider, Griesshaber, and Hoffmann () find that demand‐pull policies in foreign countries positively affect domestic patenting in photovoltaic energy sector in 15 OECD countries in 1978–2005. In a similar vein, Dechezleprêtre and Glachant () observe that domestic environmental innovation performance is positively correlated with foreign demand‐pull policies promoting wind power in the case of 28 OECD countries over 1994–2005, while there appear to be no detectable effects of foreign supply‐push policies.…”

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Does host market regulation induce cross‐border environmental innovation?

Zanfei

2019

World Economy

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This paper evaluates the effect of host‐country environmental policy stringency on the offshoring of green patents for 2000 top world R&D performers. It is shown that a more stringent environmental regulation triggers patent offshoring in the field of green technologies. Results are robust to various different specifications, to alternative definitions of innovation offshoring and of regulatory restrictions, to controls for firm and country‐level characteristics and to the consideration of possible endogeneity of regulation. We interpret these findings as evidence that MNEs can take advantage from their exposure to multiple institutional settings, reducing the costs of, and increasing the payoff from, green innovation offshoring. It is also suggested that R&D subsidies and non‐market‐based regulatory measures are more important than market‐based instruments as drivers of cross‐border environmental innovation.

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Does host market regulation induce cross‐border environmental innovation?

Zanfei

2019

World Economy

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“…). Other studies justified the use public R&D expenditures at year t to explain innovation in the same year, through the use of tax credits on private R&D expenditures, which are received by companies once expenditures have been incurred (Dechezleprêtre and Glachant ). In the present analysis, a one‐year lag and contemporaneous public R&D were included, both turning out to carry a significant contribution to RET patenting in Italy.…”

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“…), as wind technology has become more mature and closer to being able to compete with fossil fuels than other renewable sources, such as solar or ocean energy. Renewable energy patenting activities are driven both by domestic and foreign environmental regulations (Dechezleprêtre and Glachant ) and by international legitimacy (i.e., ratification of the Kyoto Protocol). Consequently, knowledge creation in the field of RET was described as a borderless phenomenon in which inventors increase their innovation effort in response to national policies.…”

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Localised knowledge, local policies and regional innovation activity for renewable energy technologies: Evidence from Italy

Corsatea¹

2016

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper investigates the mechanism of locally induced innovation activities in the field of renewable energy technologies (RET). A panel data analysis from 1998 to 2007 across 20 Italian regions identifies the primary drivers of renewable energy patenting activity. As expected, the localised stock of knowledge, local researchers and regional public research subsidies contribute significantly to the development of innovation activities. Additionally, regional characteristics, such as regional energy dependence and hydroelectric resources, are effective in determining the RET innovation patterns. Specifically, regional hydroelectric power acts as a substitute input and hence hampers the innovation activities in the field of RET. Finally, RET innovation activities depend to a limited extent on the political orientation of regional councils, thereby confirming prior research on the role of social acceptance of and political support for technology development. Highlighting the role of local resources and local policies for RET innovation activities, the present research has potential implications for economies that strive to become more self-reliant and less import intensive in the knowledge sector.JEL classification: Q55, Q58, O34, O38

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“…To measure the development of ICT, this paper employs a patent-based indicator that is widely used in recent studies on technological innovation [39,40]. For a specific technology domain, the activity of a patent application typically indicates marginal improvements in some technological characteristics over the existing technology.…”

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ICT Development and Sustainable Energy Consumption: A Perspective of Energy Productivity

2018

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Abstract:The information and communication technology (ICT) is closely related to the future of global energy consumption, not only because the ICT equipment itself increasingly consumes energy, but also because it is a general-purpose technology which may affect energy use of almost all sectors. Given the controversy over the net energy-saving effect of ICT, this paper focuses on a new perspective, i.e., energy productivity, to investigate the relationship between ICT development and energy consumption. Using a data panel of 50 economies over the period of 1995 to 2013, results of the Malmquist energy productivity index generally indicate an unbalanced development of energy productivity across the globe, while results of the patent-based ICT knowledge stock indicate a huge gap of ICT development comparing the high-income economies with the others. Furthermore, regression results indicate that ICT development is significantly related to energy productivity improvement. Finally, this paper suggests accelerating ICT development in underdeveloped economies, given the global common task of sustainable energy consumption.

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Does Foreign Environmental Policy Influence Domestic Innovation? Evidence from the Wind Industry

Cited by 143 publications

References 30 publications

Does host market regulation induce cross‐border environmental innovation?

Does host market regulation induce cross‐border environmental innovation?

Localised knowledge, local policies and regional innovation activity for renewable energy technologies: Evidence from Italy

ICT Development and Sustainable Energy Consumption: A Perspective of Energy Productivity

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