Intellectual property rights and low carbon technology transfer: Conflicting discourses of diffusion and development

Ockwell, David; Haum, Ruediger; Mallett, Alexandra; Watson, Jim

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.04.009

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“…According to Edquist (1997), learning and innovation in firms rarely take place in isolation, but occurs through complex and varied interactions with the different actors and organisations in their external environment. Thus, as Bell (1984) Mathews, 2007;Altenburg, 2008;Walz, 2010;Ockwell et al, 2008Ockwell et al, , 2010Berkhout, 2012). Research in this area is, however, very much in its infancy -there is a lack of empirical evidence and a distinct lack of any comprehensive attempt at theorising technology transfer and indigenous innovation as part of broader low carbon development pathways (Ockwell and Mallett 2012).…”

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“…Another weakness of the literature and policy thinking in this area is a tendency to conceive of technology transfer as constituting individual events, supporting the assumption that these events might somehow be scaled up to achieve more rapid diffusion of low carbon innovations in developing countries (Ockwell et al, 2010). This overlooks two important issues.…”

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“…An emerging literature, however, is beginning to highlight how these issues are in fact inextricably linked and how an understanding of the latter might make a critical contribution to realising the former, i.e. sustainable development pathways that incorporate lower carbon energy technologies, contributing to climate change mitigation whilst simultaneously meeting critical development priorities (Mathews, 2007;Altenburg, 2008;Walz, 2010;Ockwell et al, 2010;Berkhout, 2012). But simply transferring lessons from research on conventional technology imports and indigenous innovation is not enough.…”

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“…Much of the debate on technology transfer has focused on the transfer of ESTs from developed to developing countries (Ockwell et al 2011;Gallagher 2006;IPCC 2007). In order to explore these flows, as an alternative to pooling all cross-country transfers, we examine whether the above findings hold when restricting the sample to non-resident patents filed by OECD country residents in non-OECD countries.…”

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“…Motivating our focus on environmental regulation is the fact that, along with intellectual property rights (IPRs), it is frequently mentioned as one of the most influential factors influencing green technology transfer (Tébar Less and McMillan 2005;Gallagher 2006;Perkins 2007;Ockwell et al 2011). Another motivating factor is that while the existing literature has demonstrated a link between environmental regulation and green technological innovation (Jaffe and Palmer 1997;Newell et al 1999;Popp 2002;Brunnermeier and Cohen 2003;Carrion-Flores and Innes 2010;Verdolini and Galeotti 2011), it has not always produced convincing insights into the assumed impact of environmental regulatory stringency on cross-border transfers of new ESTs.…”

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SummaryThis article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. We employ a recently-assembled dataset of automobile emission standards and corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of automotive environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) in 49 countries between 1992 and 2007. Our analysis shows that an important factor shaping transfers is relative regulatory distance in that countries are more likely to receive newlyinnovated technologies from source countries whose regulatory standards are "closer" to their own. Absolute stringency matters as well, consistent with conventional wisdom, although raising domestic environmental standards as such only leads to higher inflows of ESTs in developing countries. Novel to the literature, we show that regulatory standards in the third markets of a country's trading partners also influence transfers: countries receive more ESTs from a specific source country where they export more to markets whose regulatory standards are similar to those of the source country of the transferred technologies. As concerns both domestic regulation and regulation in a country's major export markets, it is therefore regulatory distance that matters most rather than absolute regulatory levels. This article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. We employ a recently-assembled dataset of automobile emission standards and corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of automotive environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) in 49 countries between 1992 and 2007. Our analysis shows that an important factor shaping transfers is relative regulatory distance in that countries are more likely to receive newly-innovated technologies from source countries whose regulatory standards are "closer" to their own. Absolute stringency matters as well, consistent with conventional wisdom, although raising domestic environmental standards as such only leads to higher inflows of ESTs in developing countries. Novel to the literature, we show that regulatory standards in the third markets of a country's trading partners also influence transfers: countries receive more ESTs from a specific source country where they export more to markets whose regulatory standards are similar to those of the source country of the transferred technologies. As concerns both domestic regulation and regulation in a country's major export markets, it is therefore regulatory distance that matters most rather than absolute regulatory levels. Keywords

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Intellectual property rights and low carbon technology transfer: Conflicting discourses of diffusion and development

Cited by 133 publications

References 26 publications

Learning and technological capability building in emerging economies: The case of the biomass power equipment industry in Malaysia

Learning and technological capability building in emerging economies: The case of the biomass power equipment industry in Malaysia

Regulatory Distance and the Transfer of New Environmentally Sound Technologies: Evidence from the Automobile Sector

Toward low‐carbon sustainable development: Exploring the impact of digital economy development and industrial restructuring

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