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Pia Andres from the PRINZ team has published a new paper on the impact of Chinese competition on innovation in solar in Europe in Environmental and Resource Economics. You can also read about it on the LSE’s European Politics and Policy Blog

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Part 2: Process Innovation on the Innovation spectrum Following on from looking at Technology Innovation, this blog focuses on another of the four staging posts that we identified in describing a spectrum of innovation in Blog 1.

In this blog, we focus on one of the four staging posts that we identified in describing a spectrum of innovation in Blog 1. Technology Innovation For most of us, when we hear the word “innovation”, we immediately think of Technology Innovation.

PRINZ is interested in how the UK can improve productivity in an inclusive way, while also reaching the non-negotiable target of net zero emissions. Innovation is vital to tackling productivity, but innovation is often read as synonymous with technology, and the challenges that PRINZ is facing up to require innovation on many more fronts than items that can be counted through patent registrations.

Alice Owen’s recent research collaboration with Niamh Murtagh (UCL) and Kate Simpson (Nottingham Trent University) revealed the motivations that drive builders’ decision making, especially when working on existing buildings. Why, or why not, do they consider carbon and climate issues in their work?

A global transition towards a cleaner, low-carbon economy implies that global demand for some products – such as fossil fuels and the power plants and combustion engines which burn them – will fall, while that for others – such as solar panels, wind turbines and electrolysers – will rise.

Firms do and should see climate change as a competitive opportunity, rather than a regulatory burden. PRINZ researchers writing in the Financial Times.

Tidal stream energy (sometimes referred to as tidal current energy) is a way of harnessing renewable energy by capturing kinetic energy from fast-flowing water driven by tidal currents. The global development of tidal stream energy to date has been limited by high technology costs, poor access to government subsidies, uncertainty over the technology’s environmental impacts and too few examples to build a track record of technology performance over sustained periods.

PRINZ researchers and associates are discussing the latest UK government budget: A budget for (green) growth? Unfortunately, not yet …