St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Laura Diaz Anadon 'The role of government policy to incentivise technology innovation to meet the climate change challenge'

Wed 4 March 2020

Ramsden Room

Professor Diaz Anadon's research cuts across traditional disciplines, aiming to help governments to make effective technology choices, develop impactful policies and build institutions which tackle climate change. Her team researches energy and environment-oriented technological innovation, identifying and quantifying the diverse benefits that derive from policies designed to promote it; mapping the complex factors that contribute to it; and creating tools for policymakers and analysts to manage the systemic uncertainties that accompany it. Professor Diaz Anadon will discuss her research on public innovation institutions in the climate and energy space, which has included in-depth studies in the United States, China and India. She will discuss the extent to which, empirically, different types of R&D funding mechanisms, partnerships with cleantech startups, and deployment subsidies for renewable energy have led to better low carbon energy technologies, new capabilities, and new firm growth opportunities. She will discuss how can we build and resource effective, empowered institutions able to tackle climate change more rapidly in a changing world in terms of industrial competitiveness, with a particular role on the role of China

Cost: FOC