Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies

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Foreword; Table of Contents; List of Acronyms; Executive Summary; Chapter 1. Environmental Policy Design Characteristics and Innovation; Introduction; Environmental policy design characteristics as determinants of innovation; Environmental policy stringency; Environmental policy predictability; Table 1.1. Policy instrument types and policy predictability; Environmental policy flexibility; Environmental policy depth; Table 1.2. Policy instrument types and depth; Environmental policy incidence; Indicator of innovation in general environmental technologies

Figure 1.1. General "environmental" technologies by environmental mediumFigure 1.2. Air pollution abatement and control technologies; Figure 1.3. Air pollution abatement and control technologies; Figure 1.4. Water pollution abatement and control technologies; Figure 1.5. Water pollution abatement and control technologies; Figure 1.6. Solid waste management technologies; Figure 1.7. Solid waste management technologies; Figure 1.8. Proportion of patenting in general "environmental" technologies in patenting overall; Figure 1.9. Stringency of environmental policy regimes in selected countries

Figure 1.10. Stringency of environmental policy regimes and innovation in environmental technologiesTable 1.3. Patent applicants; Empirical evidence on the effect of environmental policy characteristics on innovation; Environmental policy stringency; Table 1.4. Policy stringency and environmental patents (2001-07); Table 1.5. Determinants of total patents (2001-07); Table 1.6. Second-stage regression of environmental innovation on stringency; Environmental policy predictability; Figure 1.11. Stability and transparency of environmental policy regimes

Figure 1.12. Stability and clarity of environmental policy regimes and innovation of environmental technologiesTable 1.7. Descriptive figure title statistics (2001-06); Table 1.8. Regression results: Policy stability and innovation (2001-06); Environmental policy flexibility; Figure 1.13. Flexibility of environmental policy regimes; Figure 1.14. Flexibility of environmental policy regimes and innovation of environmental technologies; Table 1.9. Descriptive statistics (2001-03); Table 1.10. Regression results: policy flexibility and innovation; Concluding remarks; Notes; References

Chapter 2. Environmental Policy, Multilateral Environmental Agreements and International Markets for InnovationIntroduction; International transfer of environmental technologies; Figure 2.1. International transfer of selected environmental technologies (1975-06); Table 2.1. Most AWW-intensive bilateral transfer relations (2001-03); Environmental regulation and fragmentation of innovation markets; Data construction; Table 2.2. Descriptive statistics for the panel dataset; The empirical model

Figure 2.2. Relationship between the flexibility of environmental policy regimes and source country patent applications

10.1787/9789264115620-en [DOI]

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