Recent international climate agreements ask for an acceleration of innovation in climate change mitigation technologies (CCMTs). To design and plan efficient and effective actions, evidence is needed on what has been achieved up to now in terms of technological development. This paper provides...

Introduction -- Public acts and bills -- Private acts and bills -- Legislation of the old Scottish and Irish parliament -- Statutory instruments -- Parliamentary rewards -- Parliamentary and command papers -- Petitions -- Parliamentary questions and debates.

This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country’s inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can therefore be considered as a complete...

This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country’s inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can therefore be considered as a complete...

The application of patent protection for gene sequences and associated technologically developments has met with much controversy and indeed misunderstanding. But in so far as intellectual property protection is afforded to products in order to develop and sustain certain markets, any...