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ToolsKim, Yeong Jae and Brown, Marilyn (2019) Impact of domestic energy-efficiency policies on foreign innovation:The case of lighting technologies. Energy Policy, 128. pp. 539-552. ISSN 0301-4215
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Abstract
Fostering the global development of low-carbon technology is crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper analyzes the effect of energy-efficiency policies on lighting patenting between 1992 and 2007, using data for 19 OECD countries. We examine levels of energy-efficiency RD&D expenditures (representing a technology-push approach) and the stringency of energy-efficiency performance standards (representing a demand-pull approach). We find strong correlational evidence that both domestic demand-pull and technology-push policies positively affect domestic lighting patenting. We also provide strong correlational evidence that the demand-pull policy positively affects foreign lighting patenting; however, the technology-push policy does not. These findings suggest that demand-pull policies can help to transform international markets for low-carbon technology innovation, and they underscore the importance of the often-overlooked international dimension of domestic energy-efficiency policies. To the extent that our findings are generalizable, our research suggests that governance processes that strengthen energy performance standards and steady investment in RD&D could spur energy innovation in industrialized nations across the world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | economics of innovation,international technology diffusion,negative binomial model,o33,q54,q55,energy(all),management, monitoring, policy and law,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2019 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2022 23:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70572 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.01.032 |
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