Innovation policy for directing technical change in the power sector

Energy Policy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 1240-1250

  Aalbers, Rob ^a   Shestalova, Victoria ^a   Kocsis, Viktória ^b  

^a CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Directed technical change; Electricity sector; Policy instruments

Indexed keywords

CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES; DIRECTED TECHNICAL CHANGE; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; ELECTRICITY-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION POLICIES; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; INSTRUMENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

INNOVATION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUEL; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INNOVATION; MITIGATION; POLICY APPROACH; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 84887172952     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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