19-20 May 2011: International Workshop on “Innovation in energy technologies: what can we learn from patent data?”

Speaker profiles

Speaker profiles

Inês Lima Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Inês Lima Azavedo holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University (2009) and a M.Sc. in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology from Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. At Carnegie Mellon University she is the executive director of the Center for Climate and Energy Decision and an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Dr. Azevedo’s research interests lie at the intersection of environmental, technical, and economic issues, such as how to address the challenge of climate change and to move towards a more sustainable energy system. She tackles complex problems in which traditional engineering plays an important role but cannot provide a complete answer. In particular, she has been looking at how energy systems are likely to be shaped in the future, which requires comprehensive knowledge not only of the technologies that can address future energy needs but also of the decision-making process followed by different agents in the economy. Dr. Azevedo has also been working on assessing how specific policies will shape future energy systems, especially in a carbon-constrained world.

Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy

Valentina Bosetti holds a PhD in Computational Mathematics and Operation Research from the Università Statale of Milan and a Master Degree in Environmental and Resources Economics from University College of London. At FEEM since 2003, she works as a modeler for the Sustainable Development Programme and as Climate Change topic leader, coordinating a research group on numerical analysis of carbon mitigation options and policies. From October 2008 to December 2009 she was visiting fellow at the Princeton Environmental Institute, USA. She has published several papers in the field of economics of climate change policy, including some linking forest management to the climate change policies. She has recently been awarded one of the prestigious 2009 European Research Council Starting Grant to perform frontier research on climate change with the ICARUS project, which she currently leads.

Carlo Carraro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, CMCC and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Carlo Carraro holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently Professor of Environmental Economics at the University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice. For the next two years he will also be the President of the University of Venice. Professor Carraro is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). In 2008, Carlo Carraro has been elected Vice-Chair of the Working Group III and Member of the Bureau of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Carraro has a proven track record and international recognition in many relevant fields. He has written more than 200 papers and 30 books on environmental economics, international policies to control climate change, coalition and group formation in economic systems, international negotiations and the formation of international environmental agreements, monetary and fiscal problems in open economies, monetary policy coordination in Europe, the econometric modelling of integrated economies, dynamic modelling of climate-economy interactions, environmental policy.

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, London School of Economics, UK

Antoine Dechezleprêtre is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics. He defended his PhD thesis at MINES ParisTech (Paris, France) in 2009.
His research interests concern the development and the international diffusion of new low-carbon technologies. He has published several empirical studies on this subject, including a paper on technology transfer in the Clean Development Mechanism, and the first global patent-based analysis of innovation and international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies. He presented these works at various international conferences, including the United Nations COP conferences in Bonn and Poznan. At LSE, he is involved in several research projects dealing with the impact of environmental policies on innovation in “green” technologies.

Enrica De Cian, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy

Enrica De Cian holds a PhD in Economics and Organization (School of Advanced Studies in Venice). During the academic year 2006-2007 she visited the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachussets Institute of Technology as a visiting student. In 2004 she spent six months at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (European exchange program Leonardo) where she worked on the relationship between trade and climate policy. She is currently a senior researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, which she joined in 2006. Her main research interests include energy-climate modelling, technical change, adaptation, climate coalition formation. She teaches environmental policy at undergraduate level and Modelling climate change stabilisation policies at PhD level (PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change) at the University of Venice.

Marzio Galeotti, University of Milan and IEFE – Bocconi, Italy

Marzio Galeotti is Professor of Economics at the Università degli Studi di Milano where he teaches Microeconomics and Environmental and Energy Economics. He graduated from Università Bocconi in Milan and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. He is research director at the Center for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy (IEFE) at Università Bocconi of Milan. He is a member of the editorial board of LaVoce.info, an associate editor of Energy Economics, and a member of the scientific committee of Il Giornale degli Economisti. He has been Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports for Working Group III on Mitigation and has been member of the Italian delegation at the 9th Session of IPCC Working Group III (Mitigation) April 30 – May 3 2007 and 26th Session of IPCC May 4 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. He was the coordinator of the Climate Change Modelling and Policy research program of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan. He has published several articles in scholarly journals.

Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Reyer Gerlagh received his PhD in Economics in 1999. His research won him a prestigious scholarship, the “Vernieuwingsimpuls”, a grant of € 650,000 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). He visited Oslo, January-June 2006, by invitation from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to work at the Centre of Advanced Studies on the interaction between environmental policy and technology. From 2006 to 2009, he held a chair in Environmental Economics at Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Reyer Gerlagh is now Professor at Tilburg University, associate editor of ERE and Energy Economics, and coordinating lead author of the fifth assessment report of the IPCC, WG III. He has published many articles on climate change policy, technological change, sustainability, natural resources, and the green paradox.

Matthieu Glachant, CERNA, MINES ParisTech, France

Matthieu Glachant is head of the Cerna –center of industrial economics and a professor of economics at Mines ParisTech. He earned his MS Degree in Engineering at AgroParisTech and his doctorate in economics at Mines ParisTech. His research is in the fields of environmental economics and transport economics. Specific areas of expertise include the economics of Corporate Social Responsibility, waste policies, climate change issues, innovation and diffusion of green technologies, and road pricing. He has published several papers in Energy Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Transportation Research Part A, etc.. As an expert, he conducted or supervised many economic studies on waste and water policies, road pricing, green innovation and voluntary agreements for French or international organisations (OECD, DG Environment, Resources For the Future, the French environmental agency ADEME, the Ministry for the Environment, etc.). He is the co-author of the paper “Invention and Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies: A Global Analysis” forthcoming in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy which gives a comprehensive view on climate innovation and diffusion based on patent data.

David Grover, London School of Economics, UK

David Grover joined the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics as a Fellow in 2009. He has been a teacher and PhD researcher in the Department since 2006. He received a BS (honours) from the University of Vermont in 2001, an MSc (distinction) from LSE in 2004, and he expects to submit his PhD thesis, ‘Technical Change for Air Pollution Abatement in Industry’, in 2010. The thesis looks at long running patterns of technical innovation and knowledge-creation in the coal-fired power production and passenger automobile industries, and the main economic, policy and technological factors underlying those patterns. He has researched theoretical and applied issues at the nexus of development, technology and environment since 2000. He has worked on energy regulation policy in government, as a sustainable development strategy researcher with a major oil and gas company, and consulted with regional and international development agencies on economic development and environmental policy strategies. He lectures on and/or teaches two geographic research methods courses in the Department (GY140 and GY240) as well as GY300, Theories of Regional Economic Development.

Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She is also the founder and partner of TSP International, an econometric software firm. She received a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988. Professor Hall has published articles on the economics and econometrics of technical change in journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, and Research Policy. She is also the editor with Nathan Rosenberg of the Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, in the Elsevier series. Her current research includes comparative analysis of the U.S. and European patent systems, the use of patent citation data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level investment and innovation studies (the G-7 economies), measuring the returns to R&D and innovation at the firm level, analysis of technology policies such as R&D subsidies and tax incentives, and of recent changes in patenting behavior in the semiconductor and computer industries. She has also made substantial contributions to applied economic research via the creation of software for econometric estimation and of firm-level datasets for the study of innovation, including the widely used NBER dataset for U.S. patents.

Ivan Haščič, OECD, France

Ivan Hašcic is economist in the Empirical Policy Analysis Unit at the OECD Environment Directorate, where he has been primarily working on the effects of public policy on environmental innovation by firms (using patent data, but also business and financial microdatabases). He has also contributed to a project on the effects of environmental policy on household behaviour (using survey data). A new project ahead will deal with implications of behavioural economics for the design of environmental policy. Ivan obtained his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University. Before, he graduated from a MSc programme in Environmental and Development Economics at University of Oslo, and studied Macroeconomic Policy at University of Economics in Bratislava. He also spent a semester taking courses at Tilburg University. His current research interests, in addition to those mentioned above, also include renewable energy and energy systems.

Nick Johnstone, OECD, France

Nick Johnstone, Ph.D., is Head of the Empirical Policy Analysis Unit at the OECD Environment Directorate. His current research interests include the analysis of environmental policy instrument choice, the links between environmental policy and technological innovation, the contribution of environmental factors to subjective well-being, and household behaviour in key sectors with environmental implications. He is the author of a number of books and chapters, with leading academic publishers (Routledge, Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar), and has published in leading journals in the field.

Elisa Lanzi, OECD, France and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy

Elisa Lanzi is currently an Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Environment Directorate where she works on adaptation to climate change within the Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development Division. She also collaborates with FEEM, which she joint in 2006, working on projects regarding sustainability indicators, innovation and patents data. Elisa graduated in Economics at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), received a Master degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London and a PhD in Economics and Organisations from the School of Advanced Studies in Venice. During her PhD studies she also spent a semester in Boston following courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a semester as Visiting Scholar at Boston University, and a semester at the OECD in Paris. Her main research interests are economics of climate change, induced technical change and climate-economy models.

Andreas Löschel, ZEW, Germany

Andreas Löschel is the head of the department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” at ZEW. He joined the institute in 1999. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as Scientific Officer for the European Commission at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Seville, Spain. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003) and at Stanford University (2005) and a visiting professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (2006-2007). Löschel studied economics at Erlangen-Nuremberg (Diplom-Volkswirt), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and Wayne State University, Detroit (M.A.). He received a PhD from the University of Mannheim (2003) and university teaching credential for economics from the University of Oldenburg (Dr. rer. pol. habil.) (2009). He advised the European Commission, the European Parliament, and national ministries in Germany and the UK on environmental, energy and climate change issues. He is lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was a member of the delegation of the European Commission at the climate conference in Bali (2007). His research interests are international environmental economics, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy, and quantitative economic modelling. He has published widely in these areas. The Handelsblatt ranking of German speaking economists lists him among the Top-100 Economists under 40 (2007-2010).

Keith Maskus, Colorado University, USA

Keith E. Maskus is Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Social Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He has been a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, a Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide and the University of Bocconi, and a visiting scholar at the CES-Ifo Institute at the University of Munich and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University.. He serves also as a consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Maskus received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1981 and has written extensively about various aspects of international trade. His current research focuses on the international economic aspects of protecting intellectual property rights.

Gregory F. Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Gregory Nemet is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE). He is also a member of the university’s Energy Sources and Policy Cluster and a senior fellow at the U.W. Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy. His research and teaching focus on improving analysis of the environmental, social, economic, and technical dynamics of the global energy system.This work is motivated by a general interest in understanding how to expand access to energy services while reducing environmental impacts. He teaches courses in energy systems analysis, governance of global energy problems, and international environmental policy. His research analyzes the process of technological change in energy and its interactions with public policy. He is an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College.

Joëlle Noailly, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Netherlands

Joelle Noailly is a researcher in the Sector International Economics at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in The Hague, Netherlands. She graduated in economics from the University of Lyon, France, and received an M.Sc. in environmental economics from the University of Delaware, USA, in 1999. She obtained a Ph.D in environmental economics from the VU University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2003. Her Ph.D research focused on evolutionary approaches for sustainable development and the management of common-pool resources by social norms. She joined CPB in 2003 and worked as a researcher on various topics, including education economics and competition and regulation issues. In 2008, she joined the newly created Climate Change, Energy and Environment Unit from the International Economics sector at CPB. Since then, her research interests combine academic research and policy analysis on climate change issues. Her expertise include theoretical modeling, game theory and applied micro-econometrics. She recently published several studies on the determinants of environmental innovations.

Roger Smeets, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Netherlands

Roger Smeets obtained a PhD in economics from the University of Nijmegen in 2009. Het then joined the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and the University of Groningen to work as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2010, he also worked as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. His main research interests concern the organization of innovation within multinationals, and the impact of firm heterogeneity on patterns and dynamics of international trade.

Ian Sue Wing, Boston University, USA

Dr. Ian Sue Wing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at Boston University (BU), a research affiliate of the Centers for Energy & Environmental Studies and Transportation Studies at BU, the Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a 2005-6 REPSOL-YPF Energy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Management & Policy from MIT and a M.Sc. in economics from Oxford University, where he was the 1994 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Sue Wing conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economies’ adjustment to policy shocks. His current research includes investigation of the impacts at the state and regional level of current U.S. proposals to mitigate climate change, sources of long-run change in the energy intensity of the U.S. economy, the theoretical and empirical analysis of induced technological change, the long-run effects of trade-mediated international productivity spillovers for global carbon emissions and leakage, and the implications of different methods of representing endogenous technological change in CGE models for climate change policy analysis.

Elena Verdolini, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy

Elena Verdolini graduated in Political Science from the University of Pavia and obtained a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) from the University of Washington, Seattle. She enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Economics and Finance of the Public Administration (DEFAP), Catholic University of Milan, in 2006. She joined the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in 2008 as a junior researcher. Her research focus is applied (econometric) analysis of innovation, knowledge flows and spillovers in energy technologies. In 2008 she spent 4 months at the OECD (Paris) working on patent data. She is currently part of the research team of the ICARUS project, lead by Valentina Bosetti at FEEM.