Country
| Rank
| Average % of
world inventions | Technology Fields
| Japan
| 1
| 37.1
| All technologies | United States
| 2
| 11.8
| Biomass, insulation, solar | Germany
| 3
| 10.0
| Wind, solar, geothermal | China
| 4
| 8.1
| Cement, geothermal, solar | South Korea
| 5
| 6.4
| Lighting, heating, waste | Russia
| 6
| 2.8
| Cement, hydro, wind | Australia
| 7
| 2.5
| Marine, insulation, hydro | France
| 8
| 2.5
| Cement, electric & hybrid, insulation | United Kingdom
| 9
| 2.0
|
Marine, hydro, wind | Canada
| 10
| 1.7
| Hydro, biomass, wind | Brazil
| 11
| 1.2
| Biomass, hydro, marine | The Netherlands
| 12
| 1.1
| Lighting, geothermal, marine |
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Antoine Dechezlepretre, Matthieu Glachant, Ivan Hascic, Nick Johnstone, Yann
Meniere. 2011.
Invention and Transfer of
Climate
Change-Mitigation Technologies. Review of
Environmental Economics and Policy 5, 109-130
This
article uses the European Patent Office (EPO) Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in
thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978.
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