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    Assessing the EU Emission Trading system´s Impact on Economic Growth
    (2015-07-02) Rudenstam, Erik; Tabell, Robert; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
    This study uses a cross-country panel data set to investigate the effect of the EU ETS on economic growth and the total national level of CO2 emission. To estimate this we have conducted a growth regression using country fixed effects model for the period 2003-2012. The results show that, during its first two phases, the EU ETS has been effective in reducing the CO2 emission levels. However, the scheme has so far also been associated with lower economic growth. The results show that the EU ETS has had a negative effect on economic growth and has had a negative impact on total national CO2 emissions. However, it is possible that a large share of the downturn in economic growth and the reduction in CO2 emissions during Phase II has to be attributed to the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the subsequent Euro crisis. Future research should account for these confounding factors as an extensive investigation on how the EU ETS impacts macroeconomic factors is needed to provide policy makers with complete information that could influence potential changes to the system.
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    What drives resistance to innovation amongst device makers in the medical radiographic industry? A qualitative case study investigating the use of microfocus X-ray tubes and the barriers to a widespread usage in the medical radiography
    (2018-08-02) Rudenstam, Erik; Tennby, Victor; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
    In academia, literature on innovation have over the last few decades predominantly focused on what strategies can help drive acceptance of new innovative products and services. However, the arguably quite high failure rate for market introductions of innovative products indicates that academia and innovative companies should increase the focus on understanding the challenges and pitfalls that could potentially affect the market introduction’s degree of success. Far from all innovations are successfully adopted by consumers, and there may be several situational or contextual user and market related reasons for this. Since the millennia, an increasing amount of research and literature have focus on innovation resistance with the ambition of unearthing the factors that influence the intended users. This field of innovation resistance is as such fairly new, resulting in a lack of generally applicable theories and definitions which may be a consequence of the factors of resistance being situational and contextual and therefore varying between industries and markets. This research focus on understanding what drives innovation resistance within the medical radiographic industry. For means of understanding the intrinsic drivers and barriers of resistance specific to the industry, the research has focused on the case of microfocus technology and medical X-ray. An innovation introduces change to an industry, and when it does, it will arguably face some resistance among the target customers. Through this case study, the main triggering drivers of innovation resistance within the medical radiographic industry are identified (unawareness or indifference to innovation, and preferences for the status quo), what main barriers against innovation adoption are created (visibility, communicability, norms & traditions, usage, information, and risk), and through what modes of resistance the device-manufacturers resist the innovation (postponement of adoption, and rejection of the innovation). It is shown that the device-manufacturers resist the innovation to varying degrees, from caution to outright rejection. The innovation resistance is based upon the current lack of information regarding the technology, and inefficient dissemination of the benefits and functionality to alleviate the perceived risks and uncertainties revolving the innovation.