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Not the end of the world

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 05/06/2024 Posted in Climate Change, Economic Growth, Renewable Energy

Hanna Ritchie is a Scottish researcher with a PhD in environmental science, and one of the editors of “Our world in data”. In  the book “Not the end of the world” she confronts the widespread pessimism regarding the future of …

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The global green shift

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 17/01/2023 Posted in Climate Change, Economic Growth, Innovation, Renewable Energy

Economic development is a process of constant change, driven by innovation. Such changes  challenge the positions of existing firms, forcing them to adapt, but also provide opportunities that firms of all types, including new entrepreneurial ventures, may exploit. A similar …

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How solar energy became cheap

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 06/09/2022 Posted in Innovation, Renewable Energy

Not long ago solar energy was regarded as too expensive to be of interest for mainstream energy markets. Since then costs have declined dramatically, and the IEA – once the darling of nuclear and fossil fuel industries – now points …

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Innovation policy: A brief introduction

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 11/01/2022 Posted in Innovation Policy

Innovation policy is a relatively new term. In fact, the first scholarly publications using it date back to around 1980.  Does this mean that there were no innovation policies before that time?  Not necessarily. As a social phenomenon, innovation arguably …

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Paths to a zero-emission world

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 08/11/2020 Posted in Climate Change, Renewable Energy

To avoid the most negative effects of climate change scientists say that temperature increase compared to preindustrial times needs to be restricted to 1,5 degrees, most of which has already occurred (IPCC 2018). The main reason for these temperature increases …

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Holistic Innovation Policy

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 08/07/2020 Posted in Innovation Policy

This book, written by two experts on innovation systems and policy, aims at providing a theoretical framework for the conduct of innovation policy. Their main argument, as explained in the three first chapters of the book, is that successful innovation …

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On Fire. The Burning Case for a Green, New Deal

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 08/06/2020 Posted in Climate Change

This book contains a series of talks and essays by the author and journalist Naomi Klein written during the last decade (including an introduction and an epilogue written especially for this volume). Klein writes passionately about the implications of global …

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Vaclav Smil: Growth

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 01/06/2020 Posted in Economic Growth

Vaclav Smil has over the years published a large number of books, mostly on energy, on which is he is regarded as a leading expert. His books have received wide acclaim, among others from Bill Gates, who has said that …

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A Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 01/05/2020 Posted in Climate Change

The Green New Deal for Europe is a campaign for a swift, just, and democratic transition to a sustainable Europe founded in 2019 by the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25), an organization linked to former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. …

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The case for the green new deal

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 23/04/2020 Posted in Climate Change

As Ann Pettifor explains, the term “new deal” dates back to the Roosevelt-administration’s attempt to use the full force of the US government to combat unemployment and revive the economy during the crisis of the 1930s. A central element in the …

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