Do Pilot and Demonstration Projects Work?
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Keywords
information spillovers; peer effects; social learning; pilot and demonstration projects; technology adoption; diffusion; policy evaluation; green building;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2018-10-15 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2018-10-15 (Environmental Economics)
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