Environmental Policy Design Characteristics and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data

Nick Johnstone, Ivan Haščič and Margarita Kalamova
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No 16, OECD Environment Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper focuses on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement, wastewater effluent treatment, solid waste management, and climate change mitigation. The paper describes the trends in innovative activity related to selected areas of pollution abatement and control technologies and their transfer internationally. It also discusses characteristics of environmental policy regimes that are amenable to encouraging innovation of environmental technologies, and provides empirical evidence on the role of various determinants (including general characteristics of countries' environmental policy regimes) in encouraging innovation. Ce document se concentre sur la question du transfert d’innovation et de technologie dans les domaines de la réduction de pollution atmosphérique, du traitement d’effluent d’eau usagée, de la gestion de déchets solides, et de l’atténuation de changement climatique. Il décrit les tendances dans l’activité innovatrice relative aux technologies de réduction de la pollution et de leur transfert international. Il identifie également les caractéristiques des régimes de politique environnementale favorables à l’innovation environnementale, et établit le lien empirique sur le rôle des diverses causes déterminantes (y compris les caractéristiques générales de la politique environnementale des pays) dans l’innovation environnementale.

Keywords: environmental policy; innovation; innovation; politique environnementale; technologie; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O33 Q55 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03-16
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