Innovatieprestatie in Nederlandse Topsectoren = Innovation performance in Dutch top sectors

The goal of the European Committee is to achieve 3% of the GDP by 2020, which could create 3.7 million jobs within the European Union. For achieving this target, the European Commission continued the track of the Lisbon Strategy into the 2020 Strategy enacting amongst other the initiative “Innovation Union”. Given the importance of innovation,...

Quantifying the direct and indirect rebound effects for consumers as a response to energy-saving technologies in the EU-27

We estimate the rebound effect for residential space heating at the EU-27 level, which occurs when an improvement in energy efficiency results in additional energy consumption. Three types of rebound effects are distinguished, namely the direct effect, indirect effect and the embodied energy. We demonstrate that the magnitude of the direct...