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Regional technological capabilities and Green opportunities in Europe

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  • Nicolo Barbieri
  • Davide Consoli
  • Lorenzo Napolitano
  • Francois Perruchas
  • Emanuele Pugliese
  • Angelica Sbardella

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The goal of the paper is to elaborate an empirical overview of green technological development in European regions. This is a timely pursuit considering the ambitious commitments stipulated in the recent European Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Our analysis is organised in three steps. First, we map the geographical distribution of innovative activities in Europe and profile regions in terms of technological capabilities. Second, we elaborate a metric to identify regions' green innovation potential. Third, we check whether possessing comparative advantage in specific technological domains is associated with a region's capacity to develop green technologies.

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  • Nicolo Barbieri & Davide Consoli & Lorenzo Napolitano & Francois Perruchas & Emanuele Pugliese & Angelica Sbardella, 2021. "Regional technological capabilities and Green opportunities in Europe," LEM Papers Series 2021/31, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    • Handle: RePEc:ssa:lemwps:2021/31
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    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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