The adoption and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies among firms

Nijkamp, P.; Rodenburg, C.A.; Verhoef, Erik T.

doi:10.1504/ijetm.2001.000742

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“…And in some countries, import barriers may inhibit the adoption of technology embodied in foreign-produced goods (Reppelin-Hill, 1999). On the other hand, Nijkamp et al (2001) present the qualitative results of a survey of Dutch firms regarding their decisions on how much to invest in energy-efficient technologies. They found that standard economic "barriers" to energy-efficient technology adoption-including the existence of alternative investments, low energy costs, and a desire to replace capital only when it is fully depreciated-are more important than financial barriers and uncertainty about future technologies and prices.…”

Section: Environmental Policy and Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp

Newell

Jaffe

2010

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

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Section: Environmental Policy and Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp

Newell

Jaffe

2010

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

336

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“…Popp et al (2009) prepared an excellent review scrutinizing the role of technological change on environmental economics for the forthcoming Handbook of Economics of Technical Change. In this review, some significant works cited in conjunction with the relationships among innovation (technological change), energy efficiency, and energy saving are: Mountain et al (1989), Sterner (1990), Berndt et al (1993), Newell et al (1999), Popp (2001), Nijkamp et al (2001), Popp (2002), Mulder et al (2003), Anderson and Newell (2004), Linn (2008), and Sue Wing (2008). Some of the conclusions of these works are i) the technology is energy saving; ii) energy patents leads to long-run energy savings; iii) science and technology (S&T) takeoff should have an energy-saving bias resulting in lower energy prices, however, this leads to more economic growth and greater energy consumption by households, so that the net effect of the S&T takeoff is greater energy use and more emissions; iv) increase in the price of energy leads to technology adoption that negligibly reduces energy demand; v) energy prices and regulatory standards affect energy-efficiency-related innovation; and vi) economic barriers affect adoption of energyefficiency technology more than financial and uncertainty barriers.…”

Section: Review Of Innovation-energy Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of ESCO activities using country indicators

Okay

Akman

2010

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) are private sector instruments that offer energy-/emission-improvement (energy saving, energy efficiency, energy conservation, emission reduction) projects in the developed and in some developing countries. Literature reveals that energy-/emission-improvements of countries may be related to their innovation-and R&D-activity levels. In this work, we use a literature data on the activities and the sectors targeted by ESCOs in 38 countries, summarized in terms of the age of ESCO market (AEM), number of ESCO companies (NE), and total value of ESCO projects (VE). Along with the Global Innovation Index (GII) data of the countries, we investigate the relationships among the ESCO Indicators (EIs: AEM, NE, VE, sectors targeted by ESCOs), and the Country Indicators (CIs: GII and per-capita GDP, energy consumption, CO2 emission). We observe noteworthy dependencies between the EIs and CIs. Using the simple trend equations we estimate the missing VEs in the original data. We also project, as a hint for the size and orientation of the upcoming Turkish ESCO market, the set of EIs and the distribution of the sectors that are likely to be targeted by ESCOs in Turkey. Keywords:Energy service companies; ESCO; Global Innovation Index; GDP; Energy consumption; Greenhouse-gas (CO2) emission; R&D.Munich Personal RePEc Archive Edition. Reproduction & distribution subject to approval of the corresponding author or the copyright owner. If you are going to cite this work please contact the corresponding author to learn its current status. Analysis of ESCO Activities MotivationESCOs, as private-sector instruments, guarantee and deliver energy improvements (saving, efficiency, conservation) to their clients. An ESCO's remuneration is tied to the energy improvement actually achieved. ESCOs may finance, or assist in financing, an energy project by providing improvement guarantee.Behind our motivation for the analysis of ESCO activities, innovations, energy consumptions, emissions, and GDPs of countries there are two important and implicitlyrelated recent laws of Turkey.Turkey's Energy Efficiency Law (EEL) was enacted in 2007, partially as a result of Turkey's tasks of complying with the European Union (EU) directives. Turkey's EEL aims to end the state monopoly by allowing private-sector participation and competition under independent regulation. One important facet of the EEL was the establishment of an ESCO market, which is currently the hot issue in the Turkish energy market.Turkey's recent law "Law About the Support of R&D Activities" (RDL in short) supports generation of technological know-how to make the economy internationally competitive through R&D and innovation. RDL exploits innovations in developing technology-intensive products and production processes, improving efficiency and costs, and commercializing technological know-how.Turkey's energy policy had been very much supply-oriented in the past. Reflecting this policy, Turkish manufacturing sectors had not been very energy efficient, and...

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“…Sólo así podrá establecerse qué transacciones económicas son las que deben concentrar las políticas de innovación para lograr el desligamiento entre las dimensiones económico-social y ambiental (Nijkamp et al, 2001;OCDE, 2003;Rammel y van der Bergh, 2003).…”

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Medición de la sensibilidad de la estructura productiva al desarrollo sostenible

Morán¹

2009

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El desarrollo sostenible se caracteriza por la integración de objetivos económicos, sociales y ambientales. En este trabajo se propone un método para identificar transacciones productivas clave en el proceso de disociación entre dichos objetivos. Para ello se utiliza como herramienta estadística la tabla insumo-producto o input-output (TIO) del espacio económico analizado. A partir de la definición de las relaciones básicas de la tabla, se especifica un modelo de programación matemática. Ante un cambio propuesto en los niveles globales de las variables económicas, sociales y ambientales tomadas como indicadores de referencia, la solución iterativa del modelo permitirá identificar las transacciones más sensibles a estos cambios. La aplicación se realiza a partir de las transacciones críticas en el caso de la región española de Castilla-La Mancha.

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The adoption and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies among firms

Cited by 23 publications

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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Analysis of ESCO activities using country indicators

Medición de la sensibilidad de la estructura productiva al desarrollo sostenible

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