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 […]
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One major area of focus of the ICARUS project is the creation of an unprecedented database of energy- and climate-related R&D, patent data and investment data. This commitment arises from the acknowledgment that one of the major barriers to research in innovation with respect to energy efficient and climate friendly technologies is the poor understanding of the dynamics between investments and innovation in the energy sector. Such poor understanding is often attributable to scarce or inexistent data on R&D investments, value of innovation and technology diffusion and transfer. There is indeed a lack of detailed data on investment in R&D for the private sector, and the necessity to compact all the available information and data already available from a number of different institutions. [Read more about ICARUS]
