Can public policy spur innovations in environmental technologies?
by Brita Bye, Arvid Raknerud and Marit E. Klemetsen — May 23, 2018 12:21 From blog on OSIRIS
Environmentally friendly technologies are an important example of an area where innovations have a high social value, but where markets would be scarce – or even absent – without public interventions. In our article “Can direct regulations spur innovations in environmental technologies? A study on firm-level patenting” we address this timely question and find that such public policies indeed encourage innovation in environmentally friendly technologies.