This article deals with the capacity of states to encourage firms to select new clean technologies in the framework of economic globalization. It addresses this issue through an analysis related to the environmental technological innovation in the automobile sector. We use the concept of National Systems of Innovation in order to understand how current technological choices are made. We compare the American and French National Systems of Innovation through their own programmes, PNGV and PREDIT respectively.
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