The purpose of this study is to identify whether an innovative company’s likelihood of facing financial constraints is different when the company possesses a public procurement contract (PP). Theory suggests that the treatment effects of public procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We test this theory and apply extended ...
Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the energy economic literature on nuclear power consider plutonium specifically, e.g. Davis (2012) or Lévêque ...
Die Begrenzung der globalen Klimaerwärmung erfordert eine Transformation des Energiesektors hin zu Technologien mit geringen Treibhausgasemissionen. Dies beinhaltet eine Abkehr von fossilen Brennstoffen, dafür aber einen substanziellen Anstieg der Nachfrage nach speziellen Nichteisenmetallen. Kobalt, Kupfer, Lithium und Nickel sind Hauptbestandteile von Technologien zur Erzeugung oder Speicherung von ...