Patent Statistics as a Measure of Technical Change

Comanor, William S.; Scherer, F. M.

doi:10.1086/259522

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“…Besides being readily available, patents present the advantage of being a good indicator of innovative activity and tend to be highly correlated with a large number of alternative measures of innovation (see Griliches, 1990;Comanor and Scherer, 1969;Acs and Audretsch, 1989;Hagedoorn and Cloodt, 2003 (OECD, 2009). This allows to include patent applications from foreign affiliates of national firms, as these might also be influenced by national environmental policy.…”

Section: Patents Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly

2010

SSRN Journal

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SummaryThis paper investigates the impact of alternative environmental policy instruments on technological innovations aiming to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes, energy taxes as captured by energy prices and specific governmental energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy-efficiency in buildings (e.g. insulation, high-efficiency boilers, energy-saving lightings). The estimates for seven European countries over the 1989-2004 period imply that a strengthening of 10% of the minimum insulation standards for walls would increase the likelihood to file additional patents by about 3%. In contrast, energy prices have no significant effect on the likelihood to patent. Governmental energy R&D support has a small positive significant effect on patenting activities. Keywords AbstractThis paper investigates the impact of alternative environmental policy instruments on technological innovations aiming to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes, energy taxes as captured by energy prices and specific governmental energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy-efficiency in buildings (e.g. insulation, high-efficiency boilers, energy-saving lightings). The estimates for seven European countries over the 1989-2004 period imply that a strengthening of 10% of the minimum insulation standards for walls would increase the likelihood to file additional patents by about 3%. In contrast, energy prices have no significant effect on the likelihood to patent. Governmental energy R&D support has a small positive significant effect on patenting activities.

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Section: Patents Datamentioning

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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Noailly

2010

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“…This measure in general suggests the regional assets of codified, published R&D knowledge (Comanor and Scherer, 1969;Keller, 2004). …”

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Institution, Internationalization and Innovation: Three Papers on Penetration of Emerging-Market Multinational Enterprises into Developed Markets

Chen

2012

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“…This ultimately not only benefits the consumer but also allows inventions cater to diverse markets. The high economic value of patents have made them assume a form of assets, which can generate the capital for a company, assigned, licensed, traded and valuated in monetary terms (Comanor and Scherer 1969).…”

Section: Scope Of Intellectual Property Regime (Patent Law)mentioning

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Intellectual property rights in synthetic biology: an anti-thesis to open access to research?

Saukshmya

Chugh

2010

Syst Synth Biol

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Synthetic Biology is a surging area of contemporary life science based research that is rapidly evolving by virtue of its multidisciplinary composition and applications. Biology never before has seen such a gold rush and demonstrated potential for knowledge based economy. The area of synthetic biology is in a nascent and tender stage, however issues pertaining to open access to research versus the monopolistic intellectual property regime (specifically patents) have already started raising concerns in the emerging bio-based economy. The present study critically analyses the comparative benefits as well as lacunas of open access to research and patenting issues. It is noteworthy that both approaches for synthetic biology development have to co-exist in order to optimally benefit the society at large.

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Patent Statistics as a Measure of Technical Change

Cited by 279 publications

References 5 publications

Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings: The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation

Institution, Internationalization and Innovation: Three Papers on Penetration of Emerging-Market Multinational Enterprises into Developed Markets

Intellectual property rights in synthetic biology: an anti-thesis to open access to research?

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