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Press Releases // 25.11.2024following the war in Ukraine by shifting to renewable energies or energy-saving technologies. This was the case both for energy-intensive companies and for companies that were only slightly affected by the energy [...] analysis shows that energy-intensive companies were particularly affected by the price increases in 2022 and consequently stepped up their investment in energy-efficient technologies,” says Dr. Christian Rammer [...] Rammer, deputy head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics”. “The adaptations did cause short-term cost increases, but in the long run they have promoted sustainable solutions
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News // 24.07.2024been on the table. Distributional issues, such as those that may arise between electricity-intensive industry in the south and offshore wind farm operators in the north, can also be resolved without u [...] Martin Bichler (TU Munich), Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK and TU Berlin), Veronika Grimm (University of Technology Nuremberg), Andreas Löschel (Ruhr University Bochum), Felix Matthes (Oeko-Institut), Christoph [...] support the grid and lower average electricity costs. Local electricity pricing also means that new industrial investments can benefit from the local surplus of green electricity. Those who invest in hydrogen
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Publications // 08.07.2024
goods produced) and technology (emission factors of production) effects. We find that the production composition in German manufacturing shifted towards less CO2 intensive goods, while emission [...] level decomposition reveals that emission intensities of production increased both within plant, and due to a reallocation of production to more emission intensive plants. [...] Emissions of local pollutants from industry have declined across many developed countries over the last decades. For carbon emissions such reductions have yet to materialize. Using German administrative
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News // 25.06.2024Saarland or Baden-Württemberg, which rely heavily on internal combustion engines and energy-intensive industries. HB: Do people need to move to places like Brandenburg to work at Tesla? Not necessarily. [...] is good for the economy because people move from shrinking, less productive companies to growing industries. This boosts productivity and thus growth. More job changes would benefit us. HB: So far, policymakers [...] without loss of prosperity? By creating prosperity: We must ensure that we have the patents and new technologies needed to achieve climate neutrality. Prosperity is created in sectors where we lead in innovation
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Press Releases // 23.05.2024manufacturing industry experienced an even steeper decline of 16 per cent. The figures are also alarming in research-intensive industries such as chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. This is [...] ZEW’s “Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics” Unit. “There is a downward trend in innovation activity, especially among young companies in the manufacturing industry.”
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Publications // 29.01.2024
firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find that [...] of frontier technologies contribute substantially to de-routinization. However, this is driven only by a subset of these firms: large adopters replace routine jobs and less routine-intensive adopters experience [...] effects reflect firms’ readiness to adopt and implement frontier technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and an increase
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News // 13.09.2023
contemplating an industrial electricity price cap for energy-intensive enterprises. However, these measures fall short. The challenge of structural change transcends the energy-intensive sectors; it affects [...] Ukraine war, which has, for instance, boosted the arms industry? Wambach: The war represents an unprecedented rupture. It is true that the arms industry benefits, but the significant loss of well-being we [...] War is not a stimulus programme. Nonetheless, the arms industry in the USA has historically been a major catalyst for innovation. Technologies like drones, initially developed for military purposes, now
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News // 21.06.2023and Climate Action is planning the introduction of an industrial electricity price – a medium-term electricity price cap for energy-intensive industries – to bridge the time until the energy transition is [...] already observe how low-value industrial production is relocating abroad due to Germany’s higher energy prices. This may not be a cause for immediate concern. Germany’s industrial strength in sectors, such [...] g an industrial electricity price highlights a fundamental challenge of climate policy. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action rightfully points out the risk of the energy-intensive industry
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Projects // 01.06.2023
The recording of technological capabilities through a comprehensive system of indicators is a central part of the annual report on the conditions of research, technology and innovation of the German [...] capturing the start-up activities in the German knowledge economy (research and knowledge-intensive industries) and the development of the stock of enterprises, including the closure of enterprises, by
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Publications // 25.05.2023
the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. The main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of [...] due to limited data availability. We exploit unique survey data on firms’ adoption of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross-sectional [...] finding holds for different measures of AI usage, i.e., an indicator variable of AI adoption, and the intensity with which firms use AI methods in their business processes.