Innovation in Clean Coal Technologies: Empirical Evidence from Firm-Level Patent Data

This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to 2...

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Veröffentlicht in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 15-2016)
Autoren: Kruse, Jürgen, Wetzel, Heike
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2016
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Zusammenfassung:This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to 2009. The results indicate that on the supply-side a firm’s history in clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a↵ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is, CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency improving combustion and after pollution control technologies.
Umfang:35 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0488