The diffusion of patented oil and gas technology with environmental uses: A forward patent citation analysis

Néstor Duch-Brown and Maria Costa-Campi
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Néstor Duch Brown

Energy Policy, 2015, vol. 83, issue C, 267-276

Abstract: Relevant advances in the mitigation of environmental impact could be obtained by the appropriate diffusion of existing environmental technologies. In this paper, we look at the diffusion of knowledge related to environmental technologies developed within the oil and gas industry. To assess knowledge spillovers from oil and gas inventions as a measure of technology diffusion, we rely on forward patent citations methodology. Results show that there is a strong likelihood that the citing patent will be eventually linked to environmental technologies if the original oil and gas invention has already environmental uses. Moreover, both intra and intersectoral spillovers produce a “turnabout” effect, meaning that citing patents show the opposite quality level of the cited patent. Our results support the idea that more sector-specific environmental policies, with an emphasis on diffusion, would significantly improve the use of environmental technologies developed within the oil and gas industry.

Keywords: Forward patent citations; Petroleum industry; Technology flows; Environmental and technology policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151500107X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: The diffusion of patented oil and gas technology with environmental uses: a forward patent citation analysis (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:83:y:2015:i:c:p:267-276

DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.03.001

Access Statistics for this article

Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France

More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().