Weekly Seminar
Fecha
18.11.2013
Horario
12:00 - 13:00
Ubicación
Aula M05, Edificio Amigos
Ponente
Pierre Mohnen
"Revisiting the porter hypothesis: An empirical analysis of green innovation for the Netherlands" by Pierre Mohnen

Professor of microeconometrics of technical change at Maastricht University, a Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and an Associated Fellow at CIRANO, Canada.

Ponente

Pierre Mohnen is Professor of microeconometrics of technical change at Maastricht University, a Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and an Associated Fellow at CIRANO, Canada.  He has an MA in economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and a PhD in economics from New York University. His research deals mainly with the measurement, the determinants, the effects and the interrelationships of R&D, innovation, ICT, competition and productivity, and the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives and R&D subsidies. He currently coordinates the micro-based evidence research on innovation and technological change at UNU-MERIT and sits on various scientific/advisory committees (ZEW, Wissenschaftsstatistik gGmbH, IHERD programme at the OECD). He has done consulting work for the OECD, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, and various Canadian and European government departments. Profile