Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144860 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
EWI Working Paper No. 16/01
Publisher: 
Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI), Köln
Abstract: 
This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3,648 clean coal innovators over the time period 1978 to 2009. The results indicate that on the supply-side a firm's history in clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively affects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency improving combustion and after pollution control technologies.
Subjects: 
clean coal technologies
innovation
patents
technological change
JEL: 
C33
O31
Q40
Q55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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