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 …

This article uses patent data to examine the impact of public environmental policy on innovations in environment … and environmental policy stringency on environment-related innovation. A subsequent two-stage model assesses the factors … obtained from the European Patent Office (EPO) World Patent Statistical (PATSTAT) database and the World Economic Forum's (WEF …

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether …

patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with …-related technologies. To improve cross-country comparability of patent statistics, the paper advocates the use of indicators based on …

This paper identifies over 50 000 patents filed worldwide in various water-related adaptation technologies between 1990 …. The paper then analyses the innovation activity – including inventive activity by country and technology, international … although innovation activity in water-related technologies has been increasing over the last two decades, this growth has been …

prior abatement. We contrast this with three dimensions of dynamic realism in emitting systems: inertia, induced innovation …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that … potentially lessen incentives for innovation and on abuse of dominance/single firm exclusionary practices in IP-intensive network … importance for economic advancement and prosperity, having a direct bearing on innovation, growth and the diffusion of new …