Technological diffusion is recognized as a key pillar of climate change mitigation in environmental agreements.
Taking place 16 September at the Royal Society of the Arts in London, UK, this conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of the economics of growth, development and technological change, including but not limited to: innovation in clean technolog
In this report, the WBCSD puts forward six key elements to enhance investments and sales of low-carbon technologies in developing countries.
Some 25 years have elapsed since international financial institutions espoused a package of power sector reform measures that became known as the Washington Consensus.
ICTSD senior fellow and Professor Emeritus Thomas Brewer, addresses the issues associated with technology transfer used by firms, namely international direct investments, licensing, and trade in services and goods.
The Graduate Institute’s Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) has begun a CHF 2.5 million, three-year research programme to investigate how economic growth can be made consistent with environmental objectives.
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of