Invention in energy technologies: Comparing energy efficiency and renewable energy inventions at the firm level

Energy Policy

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 206-217

  Rexhäuser, Sascha ^a,c   Löschel, Andreas ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic count data; Energy efficiency; Innovation; Invention; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

COUNT DATUM; EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY PUSHES;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INNOVATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

GERMANY;

EID: 84930083113     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.02.003     Document Type: Article

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