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Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Lessons from Non-energy Sectors

By: Patrick Avato,Jonathan Coony

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Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Lessons from Non-energy Sectors

By: Patrick Avato,Jonathan Coony

Climate change is one of the key challenges of this century. At the same time, energy use the primary source of climate-altering global greenhouse gas emissions is increasing at unprecedented rates and is vital to the continued economic growth of developing countries. This poses a serious dilemma that can only be reconciled with new and improved clean energy technologies that balance climate change mitigation and increased energy needs in developing countries. Despite a recent increase in investment, public and private research, development, and deployment (RD&D) funding rates are well below historical levels. In addition, significant barriers impede the ability to develop new technologies, such as the uncertain future value of CO2 emissions, intellectual property rights issues, limited incentives to commercialize technologies for developing countries, and challenges with technology transfer. These factors must be overcome to accelerate innovation in the energy sector. To introduce new thinking to address these concerns, this report examines four cases from outside the energy sector where creative approaches to RD&D have successfully overcome similar barriers. The case studies review approaches to innovation by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Advanced Market Commitments for Vaccines, the Human Genome Project, and the concept of Distributed Innovation. These case studies show how creative efforts can generate valuable public goods via: (i) international partnerships between public and private actors, (ii) information sharing and intellectual property rights, and (iii) novel financing schemes.

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Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany

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Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A-, Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)), course: West European Political Economies, language: English, abstract: Firstly, as typical for a centrally planned socialist economy, the great majority of productive capacity belonged to the state. Large, state owned enterprises (Volkseigene Betriebe), often grouped into huge industrial conglomerates (Kombinate), made up 80.7 percent of total assets. Cooperative property accounted for another 14.7 percent in March 1990. Private property merely amounted to 4.7 percent of economic resources and was confined to small-scale businesses, restaurants, and craft shops. Employment was consequently almost entirely in the hand of the state leaving only about 2 percent of the workforce independently employed (Merkl 1994, p. 200). Also, the structure of the GDR economy differed largely from its western counterpart. Employment was heavily concentrated in sectors and branches that had actually been declining in the West. The production was skewed towards agriculture, energy, mining and manufacturing, which together accounted for 47 percent of employment in the GDR (37 percent in the BRD) (Lange and Pugh 1998, p. 32). As shown in table 1 agriculture, forestry and fishery, energy and mining as well as textiles and clothing employed almost 18 percent of the GDR’s workforce in contrast to 7 percent in West Germany. Further differences appeared in the service and trade sector which, by Western standards, was rather underdeveloped in the GDR. [...]

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Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany

Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany

Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

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