Efficiency improving fossil fuel technologies for electricity generation: Data selection and trends

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This paper studies innovation dynamics in efficiency improving electricity generation technologies as an important means of mitigating climate change impacts. Relevant patents are identified and used as an indicator of innovation. We find that patenting in efficiency improving technologies has mostly been stable over time, with a recent decreasing trend. We also find that majority of patents are first filed in OECD countries and only then in non-OECD or BRIC countries. Conversely, non-OECD and BRIC countries apply for patents that are mostly marketed domestically. This result shows that there is significant technology transfer in the field of efficiency improving technologies for electricity production. This flow of know-how is likely to contribute to mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions in emerging economies in the long run.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 10.2011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development ; Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
• Thema: Climate Change ; Technological Innovation ; Energy ; Patents ; Fossil Fuels

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lanzi, Elisa ; Verdolini, Elena ; Haéscic, Ivan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (wo): Milano
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53256
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ