We examine the impact of environmental regulation on the international diffusion of new technology through the patent …-border patent inflows of technologies developed to comply with these standards. Our analysis, based on a research design of country … matters for cross-border patent inflows: the flow of compliance technologies rises when regulatory standards in the inventor …

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 …

corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of automotive environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) in 49 countries between …