Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an … industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio …

impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities …. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock is positively related to green patent activities with a … countries are also positively related with industries' green patent activities, although with a significantly lower marginal …

Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …

cycle where innovation induces industry growth, which in turn induces innovative activities. Furthermore, patent growth … resource-driven economy to a knowledge-driven economy. The paper first takes a historical perspective on innovation and … technological areas as well as in different industries. Patent data provides a long time-series of innovative activity from 1842 to …

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

evidence about the policy-induced development of environmentally friendly technology. I use patent data from 1976 to 1997 for … patent over time in one country (such as changes in patenting laws and of course economic growth), I regard the ratio of … mere patent counts.1 I find that energy prices (as a demand-side factor that influences the value of new innovations) have …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …