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Innovation and distribution issues / inequality
Innovation is mostly seen as something positive for economic and also societal development. It is conceived as worthy of support, meaning policy makers have been enthusiastically promoting innovative activities. However,...
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How peer communities advance sustainable innovations
How peer communities advance sustainable innovations Innovation studies have traditionally focused on firm activities. However, enabled by digital technologies, peer collaboration has become an essential element of innovation...
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Public Procurement and Machismo in Costa Rica: do female procurement officers allocate more contracts to female-managed firms?
The project aims to examine the relationship between the procurement officer and the gender of the CEO of a firm that wins a public contract. The International Trade Center (ITC) estimated that currently women-owned businesses...
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Public Procurement and Innovation in Costa Rica
The project aims to examine quantitatively the connection between firms’ participation in public procurement and their innovation activity. Thus far, the literature has established a conceptual link between public procurement and...
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Analyzing the Energy Transition in Italy
Contact: Rainer Quitzow. Energy transitions take shape within unique techno-economic, political and social settings. Systematic analyses of such processes at the country-level can help further our understanding of the drivers...
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Analyzing country-specific deployment patterns in wind and solar energy
Contact: Rainer Quitzow. The deployment of wind and solar energy varies significantly in scope and speed within countries. In some cases, this may be related to resource availability, but in most cases other techno-economic,...
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The interaction between innovation and the sharing economy
Contact: Knut Blind. The concept of the sharing economy contributes certainly to sustainability. However, we are looking for works which analyse both the conceptual and empirical linkages between the various types of the sharing...
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