Patents as a measure for eco-innovation

By Vanessa Oltra, René Kemp, F. D. Vries. 2008

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This paper examines the usefulness of patent analysis for measuring eco-innovation. The overall conclusion is that patents are a useful means for measuring environmentally motivated innovations, such as pollution control technologies and green energy technologies, and for general purpose technologies with environmental benefits. For these types of innovations it is acceptable to use patent analysis, provided they are carefully screened. Patent analysis may be used for measuring five attributes of eco-innovation: (1) eco-inventive activities in specific technology fields, (2) international technological diffusion, (3) research and technical capabilities of companies, (4) institutional knowledge sources of eco-innovation, and (5) technological spillovers and knowledge flows. Up until now it is mainly used for measuring eco-inventive activity.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing

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Do eco-innovations harm productivity growth through crowding out? Results of an extended CDM model for Italy (2014, methodology): “Patent data could act as a more objective alternative to measure ecoinnovation (Oltra et al, 2009).”
Determinants and Specificities of Eco-innovations – An Econometric Analysis for the French and German Industry based on the Community Innovation Survey (2009, background): “8 For a survey on that question, see Oltra et al. (2010).”
Determinants and Specificities of Eco-Innovations Compared to Other Innovations—An Econometric Analysis for the French and German Industry Based on the Community Innovation Survey (2013, background): “For a survey on that question, see Oltra et al. (2010). Determinants and Specificities of Eco-Innovations 529”
The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments — A typical case of the blind men and the elephant? (2011, background): “Patents can be used for measuring inventions in pollution control technologies and alternative energy technologies but they are a poor indicator for inventive activity in the area of process integrated environmentally superior technologies (Oltra et al., 2010).”