Insights into the Determinants of Innovation in Energy Efficiency

No 10-266, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

Abstract: Given the increasing interest in understanding (and supporting by means of public policy) innovative activity related to energy efficient technology (EET), I attempt to identify firm-level determinants of innovation and research in this field. A novel dataset of Swiss firms has been assembled by means of a survey in 2009, resulting in more than 2300 observations featuring various indicators of innovative activity and success. Applying standard econometric methodology, I find sizeable differences of the explaining factors of energy efficiency related innovation as compared to overall innovation. In particular, market environment related variables important for overall innovative activity seem to have little explanatory power for EET related innovation, raising the question whether such innovation sufficiently responds to current and potential future demand.

Keywords: Innovation; Energy; Energy Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2010-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eff, nep-ene, nep-ino and nep-sbm
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