<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies"^^ . "Technological innovation is a key strategy for tackling environmental problems. The required R&D expenditures however are substantial and fall on self-interested countries. Thus, the prospects of successful innovation critically depend on innovation incentives. This paper focuses on a specific mechanism for strategic distortions in this R&D game. In this mechanism, the outlook of future conflicts surrounding technology deployment directly impacts on the willingness to undertake R&D. Apart from free-riding, a different deployment conflict with distortive effects on innovation may occur: Low deployment costs and heterogeneous preferences might give rise to 'free-driving'. In this recently considered possibility (Weitzman 2012), the country with the highest preference for technology deployment, the free-driver, may dominate the deployment outcome to the detriment of others. The present paper develops a simple two stage model for analyzing how technology deployment conflicts, free-riding and free-driving, shape R&D incentives of two asymmetric countries. The framework gives rise to rich findings, underpinning the narrative that future deployment conflicts pull forward to the R&D stage. While the outlook of free-riding unambiguously weakens innovation incentives, the findings for free-driving are more complex, including the possibility of super-optimal R&D and incentives for counter-R&D."^^ . "2015-02" . . . "0584" . . . . . "Daniel"^^ . "Heyen"^^ . "Daniel Heyen"^^ . . . . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (PDF)"^^ . . . "dp584.pdf"^^ . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Strategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #18333 \n\nStrategic Conflicts on the Horizon: R&D Incentives for Environmental Technologies\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "330 Wirtschaft"@de . "330 Economics"@en . .