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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111792
	A novel approach for analyzing the effectiveness of the R&D capital for resource conservation: Comparative study on Germany and UK electricity sectors
	Khajehpour H.; Miremadi I.; Saboohi Y.; Tsatsaronis G.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	147
英文摘要	Limited access to energy resources and increasing demand for mitigation of the environmental impacts have necessitated higher production efficiencies. Therefore, the promotion of R&D activities has been one of the main parts of national energy policies. In this research work, two methods are used for assessing the effectiveness of the R&D capital on resource conservation. First, by developing the resource-included knowledge production function of the energy sector and second, through direct assessment of the functionality of resource productivity from R&D capital. Based on official data provided by national statistical centers, a comparative analysis has been conducted to examine the effectiveness of R&D in the electricity generation sectors in the United Kingdom and Germany. In these analyses, non-renewable exergy cost is used as an index of resource depletion and environmental burden. It is shown that, due to non-economic energy transition policies, the inclusion of the R&D investment does not result in statistically meaningful elasticity of production for the R&D capital. However, according to the second method, it is shown that the R&D investment in the United Kingdom has been more effective in resource conservation than in Germany. Possible reasons for such differences are discussed and recommendations for further investigations are presented. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Energy Environment Nonrenewable exergy cost R&D Resource conservation
英文关键词	Conservation; Economics; Energy resources; Environmental impact; Investments; Comparative analysis; Electricity generation sectors; Environmental burdens; Knowledge production function; National energy policy; Production efficiency; Resource conservation; Resource productivity; Natural resources management; capital; electricity generation; energy conservation; environmental impact; exergy; international comparison; investment; research and development; Germany; United Kingdom
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204719
作者单位	Energy Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Energy Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Marchstr. 18, Berlin, D-10587, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Khajehpour H.,Miremadi I.,Saboohi Y.,et al. A novel approach for analyzing the effectiveness of the R&D capital for resource conservation: Comparative study on Germany and UK electricity sectors[J],2020,147.
APA	Khajehpour H.,Miremadi I.,Saboohi Y.,&Tsatsaronis G..(2020).A novel approach for analyzing the effectiveness of the R&D capital for resource conservation: Comparative study on Germany and UK electricity sectors.Energy Policy,147.
MLA	Khajehpour H.,et al."A novel approach for analyzing the effectiveness of the R&D capital for resource conservation: Comparative study on Germany and UK electricity sectors".Energy Policy 147(2020).