Terrazas-Santamaria, Diana; Mendoza-Palacios, Saúl; … - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 17 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14
This article proposes a methodology to identify technological transitions (TTs) by systematically using the total variation distance (TVD) metric. We use a database of renewable energy generation (REG) patents to exemplify the usefulness of TVD to uncover moments where a "big change" in REG...