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Intra-Firm Diffusion of Green Energy Technologies and the Choice of Policy Instruments
(2015)KOF Working PapersEnvironmental benefits only unfold if green (environmentally friendly) technologies are widely diffused and intensively deployed within a firm. We investigate how different types of policies - directly and in combination - affect the number of different green energy technologies adopted by a single firm (intra-firm diffusion). Using data from a dedicated survey on the diffusion of green energy technologies of 1200 Swiss firms and applying ...Working Paper -
Vertical Educational Diversity and Innovation Performance
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education?level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within?firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, ...Working Paper -
Patentportfolio Schweiz - Studie im Auftrag des Staatssekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI
(2015)KOF StudiesReport