Fuel prices and the invention crowding out effect: Releasing the automotive industry from its dependence on fossil fuel

Nicolò Barbieri ()

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016, vol. 111, issue C, 222-234

Abstract: The paper aims to shed some light on the impact of fuel prices and technological relatedness on green and non-green patenting dynamics and lock in to fossil fuel technologies. Specifically, we investigate whether green technology efforts come at the expense of other environmental or non-environmental invention activity. To do so, we employ Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) to detect the main technological domains exploited by the automotive industry during 1982–2008, using Triadic Patent Families (TPF) to proxy for the technological efforts in each technology field.

Keywords: Environmental technologies; Self-Organising Maps; Crowding out; Fuel prices; Patent data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.07.002

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