Energy and Climate Policy [electronic resource].
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2012.
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives, so it is important to understand how environmental policy design and technological innovation are linked. This is particularly true in the area of climate change where the estimated future costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions are affected greatly by the technological trajectory of the economy. While we suspect that public policy can play an important role in accelerating the development and diffusion of climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies, empirical evidence in this area remains scant. Th
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Foreword; Table of contents; Acronyms; Executive summary; Chapter 1. Recent trends in innovation in climate change mitigation technologies; 1. Introduction; 2. Construction of patent indicators; Figure 1.1. Alternative indicators of CCMT patenting activity; 3. Evidence of CCMT inventive activity; Figure 1.2. Growth rate of CCMT patenting; Figure 1.3. Growth rate of CCMT patenting by technology; Figure 1.4. Inventive activity in solar thermal versus solar PV; Figure 1.5. Inventive activity in geothermal technologies (1970-2007)
Figure 1.6. Inventive activity in hydro/marine technologies (1950-2007)Figure 1.7. Inventive activity in biofuel technologies (1970-2007); Figure 1.8. Inventive activity in CO2 capture (1970-2007); Figure 1.9. Trends in "claimed priorities" for CCMT inventive activity; Figure 1.10. Trends in EPO patents for CCMT inventive activity; Figure 1.11. Inventor countries for solar thermal and solar PV; Figure 1.12. Proportion of patenting (CP) by the top five ranking inventor countries for each CCMT field, 1988-2007; Table 1.1. Rank of top inventor countries 1988-2007 (counting CP), by CCMT class
Table 1.2. Specialisation of inventor countries in CCMT fields (1988-2007)Figure 1.13. Market concentration (1998-2007); Table 1.3. Major applicants in CCS & IGCC technologies (1988-2007); 4. Technology transfer, knowledge spillovers and research co-operation; Figure 1.14. Trends in average patent family size; Table 1.4. Major bilateral transfer relations in CCMT (1988-2007); Figure 1.15. Average patent family size in selected CCMTs; Table 1.5. Transfer of solar PV to non-Annex I economies (1988-2007); Table 1.6. Transfer of solar TH to non-Annex I Economies (1988-2007)
Figure 1.16. Transfer of selected CCMT technologies from Annex I to non-Annex I economies (1988-2007)Table 1.7. International research collaboration in CCMT (co-invention); Figure 1.17. Propensity to patent abroad; Table 1.8. International research collaboration in CCMT technologies; Figure 1.18. CCMT fields by rate of co-invention; Figure 1.19. International research collaboration in selected CCMT technologies (1988-2007); 5. Lessons from studies on renewable energy and energy efficiency; 6. Conclusions; Notes; References; Annex 1.A1. List of CCMT fields available in oecd.stat
Annex 1.A2. Supplementary dataTable 1.A2.1. Patenting activity in selected CCMT fields (1988-2007); Table 1.A2.2. CCMT patent intensity; Table 1.A2.3. CCMT patenting per unit of GDP; Table 1.A2.4. CCMT patenting per capita; Table 1.A2.5. CCMT patenting per dollar of general R&D; Chapter 2. The determinants of innovation in electricity generation technologies: A patent data analysis; 1. Introduction; 2. Patent data in the electricity sector; Figure 2.1. Trends in innovation in energy technologies; Figure 2.2. Relative importance of innovation in different energy technologies
Figure 2.3. Main innovating economies in different energy fields
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives, so it is important to understand how environmental policy design and technological innovation are linked. This is particularly true in the area of climate change where the estimated future costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions are affected greatly by the technological trajectory of the economy. While we suspect that public policy can play an important role in accelerating the development and diffusion of climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies, empirical evidence in this area remains scant. Th
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
Energy policy -- Environmental aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy.