Catching up in clean energy technologies: a patent analysis

Deyu Li; Floor Alkemade; Koen Frenken; Gaston Heimeriks

doi:10.1007/s10961-021-09912-y

Catching up in clean energy technologies: a patent analysis

Deyu Li
, Floor Alkemade
, Koen Frenken^*
, Gaston Heimeriks

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

How we can accelerate the diffusion of new clean energy technologies worldwide is a highly relevant topic for energy and climate policies, as well as industrial policies. We trace the time lag between the introduction and the diffusion of breakthroughs in solar photovoltaic technology and wind power technology. Our results show that both domestic knowledge base and organizational proximity to the country introducing breakthroughs, help latecomer countries catch up by actively innovating in these technologies on their own. Moreover, we find that there are more opportunities for latecomer countries with stronger domestic knowledge base to catch up in solar photovoltaic technology than wind power technology. The results of this paper provide systematic evidence of the technology-sensitive catching-up process in the clean energy technological paradigm.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	693-715
Number of pages	23
Journal	The Journal of Technology Transfer
Volume	48
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-021-09912-y
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023

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The authors thank the guest editors of the special issue and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [grant number ES/S010688/1] and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action [grant agreement id 730403]. The second author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [grant number 452-13-010].

Funders	Funder number
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action	730403
Economic and Social Research Council	ES/S010688/1
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	452-13-010

Keywords

Catching-up
Diffusion
Multinational companies
Proximity
Relatedness
Solar photovoltaic technology
Wind power technology

UN SDGs

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