sustainable development viewpoint there has been a growing concern that the economic expansion of the world economy will cause … scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like …

study analyses the OECD patent database for G20 countries to identify dominant sectors and technologies. Energy and …

Climate Change ; Mitigation Technologies ; Patent Data …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …