Use of coupled incentives to improve adoption of environmentally friendly technologies

We define a specific coupled incentive scheme (CIS), in which individual agents are rewarded for their joint actions' effect, rather than for their own actions' accomplishments. We show that a technology switch can be realised through CIS for a budget, for which no technology change would be achieved if only individual agent actions were compensated. We show under which conditions the agents' game has a unique solution and what the principal's choices are for the solution's implementation.