World Corporate Top R&D investors: Paving the way to carbon neutrality

Sara Amoroso (), Leonidas Aristodemou (), Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezlepretre (), Helene Dernis (), Nicola Grassano, Laurent Moussiegt (), Lorenzo Napolitano (), Daisuke Nawa (), Mariagrazia Squicciarini and Alexander Tuebke ()
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Sara Amoroso: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Leonidas Aristodemou: OECD
Antoine Dechezlepretre: OECD
Helene Dernis: OECD
Laurent Moussiegt: OECD
Lorenzo Napolitano: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Daisuke Nawa: OECD
Alexander Tuebke: European Commission - JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alexander Tübke

No JRC126788, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This biennial report continues the joint JRC-OECD analysis of the IP portfolios of the world's top 2 000 R&D investors. The report shows that global R&D and patenting activities are highly concentrated among the world’s top 2 000 R&D investors. These are equivalent to 87% of global business R&D expenditures by the private sector and 63% of patent filings across all technologies. There is much less concentration at the commercialisation stage, with only 6% of total trademarks owned by the top R&D investors. The world’s top R&D investors are key contributors to global climate-related innovation. They own 70% of global climate change mitigation or adaptation patents and over 10% of global climate-related trademarks, which is larger than their contribution to overall patents and trademarks across all fields. Looking at the potential contribution of the digital revolution to climate-related innovation at the invention stage, 20% of climate-related patents have a digital component (against 33% for patents across all technological fields). Finally, this edition of the report investigates for the first time the gender composition of both the board of directors of the top 2 000 R&D investors, and of their R&D workforce. In general, EU27 companies have on average more gender-balanced boards than the US and the Asian ones, with a women representation of at least 26%. A substantial gender gap is also observed for inventors listed in patent applications, with significant heterogeneity across countries and sectors.

Keywords: R&D investment; Green Patent; Intellectual Property; Patents; Trademarks; Gender Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11
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