Innovating a Green Real Deal

Global Governance: The G20 and a Global Green New Deal

As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires a long-term commitment to implementing and coordinating “green investments” by the Group o...

Innovating for Growth, Innovating for the Environment

The paper first analyses the process of innovation beginning with R&D. Most innovation is focused on the developed world. and developing countries face problems in adapting it to local conditions, problems which are likely to increase as technology becomes more complex and sophisticated. In this they may be better served by innovation coming out of China and India. Knowledge diffusion could be ...

Innovating With Rehabilitation Technology in the Real World

In this article, we discuss robotic-assisted therapy as an emerging and significant field of clinical rehabilitation and its value proposition for innovating rehabilitation clinical practice. Attempts to achieve integration among clinicians' practices and bioengineers' machines often generate new challenges and controversies. To date, the literature is indicative of a sizeable number and variet...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

Dynamic strategic interaction between an innovating and a non-innovating incumbent

This paper analyzes the effects of product innovation on the firms’ investment behavior in a dynamic duopoly framework. A differential games setting is considered where initially two firms are active on a homogenous product market. One of the firms has an option to introduce a new product that is horizontally and vertically differentiated from the established product. The resulting differential...