Green patents, regulatory policies and research network policies

By Andrea Fabrizi, Giulio Guarini, Valentina Meliciani. Research Policy, 2018

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The main goal of this paper is to analyse the single and joint impact of regulation policies and research network policies on environmental innovation. Our theoretical framework combines the open eco-innovation mode approach with the Porter Hypothesis, by adapting them to the knowledge production function where green patents are the dependent variable. We focus on the factors that influence the production of green patents as a proxy of new “environmental” knowledge for a panel of European countries over time. We find that both marked-based regulation policies and participation in green European research networks (in particular with universities and public research centres) positively affect environmental innovation. Moreover, the two policy tools have a complementary effect. This suggests that the effectiveness of environmental regulation policies can be increased by combining them with appropriate innovation policies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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Environmental Policy and Innovation: A Decade of Research (2019, background): “Fabrizi et al. (2018) study participation in research networks promoted by the European Union, hypothesizing that that larger research networks complement the effects of demand-side policies.”
Technology transfer, climate change mitigation, and environmental patent impact on sustainability and economic growth: A comparison of European countries (2020, background): “Much of the existing literature has studied this issue at the micro level, namely at the company level (Costantini and Liberati, 2014; Fabrizi et al., 2018; Youssef et al., 2018), so the present research sought to study environmental technology transfer in Europe and transfer effects on economic gro”
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups (2020, positive): “In accordance with Fabrizi et al. (2018), we use environmental patent applications rather than patents granted since the patent application event reflects much more accurately the timeframe of new knowledge creation.”