Investigating the impacts of technological position and European environmental regulation on green automotive patent activity

Barbieri, Nicolò

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.06.017

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“…First of all, high ER levels force firms to introduce clean production technology and allocate more capital in green R&D (Pan et al, 2019); furthermore, firms' green TI will enhance EE of both themselves and other firms via knowledge spillover effects, resulting in the decline of energy consumption of the entire areas. Thus, TI inspired by stronger ER is more favorable to enhancing GTFEE (Barbieri, 2015).…”

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Dynamic environmental regulation threshold effect of technical progress on green total factor energy efficiency: evidence from China

Gao

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Sustainability is a strategic choice for the transition to a green economy in China. Improving green total factor energy efficiency (GTFEE) is the key to realizing the dual targets of energy saving and economic growth. This paper assesses the nonlinear influence of environmental regulation (ER) on technical innovation (TI) affecting GTFEE by establishing a dynamic panel threshold model using panel data of 271 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004-2016. Meanwhile, a system GMM approach is used to verify the channels through which TI affects GTFEE. Finally, the spatial and temporal characteristics of TI affecting GTFEE are analyzed from the perspective of ER. The empirical results are as follows: (1) TI can significantly improve GTFEE, and there is a threshold characteristic of this improvement effect, when ER is above the threshold value, TI has a greater improvement effect on GTFEE. (2) Besides directly influencing GTFEE through green technical innovation effect, TI can also indirectly influence GTFEE via channels such as economic growth effect, industrial structure upgrading effect and foreign investment effect, and the indirect influence channels show ER heterogeneity. (3) The number of cities crossing the threshold of ER in China increases year by year, which helps TI play a role in improving GTFEE, but there are still a small number of cities that do not cross the threshold during the sample period, which should attract the attention of local governments.

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Section: Test Of Impact Channelsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Dynamic environmental regulation threshold effect of technical progress on green total factor energy efficiency: evidence from China

Gao

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Moving on to the microperspective, Popp () finds a positive effect of the tradable permit scheme for Sulphur Dioxide on EI in a sample of 186 U.S. plants over the years 1972–1997. Moreover, focusing on the automotive sector, Barbieri () provides evidence into the inducement effect of different EU environmental policies, such as post‐tax fuel prices, environmental vehicle taxes, CO2 standards and EU emission standards, on green patenting activities of assignees. In addition, Mazzanti and Zoboli () analyse the innovation inducement mechanism of the EU End‐of‐Life Vehicles (ELVs) Directive and show that the effects of economic instruments ‘ in systemic and dynamic settings critically depend on where, along the ‘production chain’, and how, in terms of net cost allocation, the incentive is introduced ’ (Mazzanti & Zoboli, , p. 334).…”

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A Survey of the Literature on Environmental Innovation Based on Main Path Analysis

Barbieri

Ghisetti

Gilli

et al. 2016

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This paper reviews the literature on environmental innovation (EI) and systematizes it by means of an original methodology identifying the main directions in which the literature on EI has developed over time. In order to do so, two algorithms are adopted and used to analyse a citation network of journal articles and books. The main path analysis reveals that this literature revolves around the following topics: i) determinants of EI; ii) economic effects of EI; iii) environmental effects of EI and iv) policy inducement of EI. Each of these topics is discussed and implications from the main findings as well as possible future research extensions are outlined

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“…However, no studies have observed the technology distribution of UIC patents from the perspective of examiners. In addition, relevant research on technology distribution has mainly been conducted from the perspective of applicants (Barbieri, 2015;Gwak and Sohn, 2017;Zhang and Zhang, 2014). We proposed that examiners' citations of technology distribution according to their professional knowledge remains worthy of analysis because it can further define key technologies.…”

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“…For example, Zhang and Zhang (2014) used the number of applicants to observe the lifecycles of specific technologies. Barbieri (2015) used applicants' technological proximity to examine the development of technological knowledge. Gwak and Sohn (2017) observed the technology distribution and knowledge flow of woundhealing technology from the perspective of applicants.…”

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Key licensing technologies for patents based on university– industry collaboration

Chang

2019

IJIS

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Purpose As the university–industry collaboration (UIC) gradually attracts the attention of various national governments, the number of studies on UIC has increased substantially. Past UIC studies have mostly focused on investigating the incentives and the motivation for UIC, forms of UIC and performance output of UIC. However, they have not actively identified the key technologies and technology distribution that are conductive to the commercialization of UIC outcomes. Therefore, this study aims to adopt the licensed UIC patents as the basis for analysis and to construct a patent licensing technology network. Design/methodology/approach This study focused on licensed patents because past studies have indicated that such patents usually have higher value. Moreover, patent licensing can be seen as the final step for the commercialization of UIC outcomes. Finally, past studies have rarely explored patent examiners’ views on key technologies. However, during the substantive examination of patents, patent examiners often use their background knowledge regarding the technology to include citations to other patented technologies that they consider valuable or indispensable. Therefore, this study focused on investigating the patents recognized and cited by patent examiners and conducted key technology identification. Findings The results indicated that past key technologies in UIC focused on surveying, medicine, biochemistry and electric digital data processing; these fields are crucial to the commercialization of key UIC technologies. Finally, the USA, Japan, Sweden and Germany play critical roles in the network of global university–industry cooperation and technology licensing. Originality/value Patent examiners’ perspectives were adopted to establish a patent licensing technology network, through which the key technologies that could promote UIC patent licensing were mined. This study can also serve as a reference for resource allocation in university research and development and for governments to promote new technologies.

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Investigating the impacts of technological position and European environmental regulation on green automotive patent activity

Cited by 42 publications

References 57 publications

Dynamic environmental regulation threshold effect of technical progress on green total factor energy efficiency: evidence from China

Dynamic environmental regulation threshold effect of technical progress on green total factor energy efficiency: evidence from China

A Survey of the Literature on Environmental Innovation Based on Main Path Analysis

Key licensing technologies for patents based on university– industry collaboration

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