New article on how deployment policies affect innovation in complementary technologies
We already know much about the innovation effects of deployments policies such as the German Feed-in Tariff. But how do such policies affect complementary innovations, e.g. in battery technology?
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Jakob Prüss
A new article by Simon Sinsel, Jochen Markard and Volker Hoffmann finds that the feed-in tariff had positive effects on the expectations of investors regarding the future of battery technology. However, its direct effects were more ambivalent. This is why (deployment) policies have to be designed carefully to also generate innovation effects for complementary technologies. Download Read full article.