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How Are Energy-Related R&D Investments Effective on Environment-Related Patents? Empirical Evidence from the USA and Canada

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  • Dilvin TaÅŸkın
  • Serpil Kılıç Depren
  • Fatih Ayhan

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All related economic actors have been interested in combating climate change as consistent with developing interest in environmental issues. In this context, R&D investment funds can be highly beneficial in developing environmental patents, which may have a key role in solving environmental problems. Accordingly, the study analyzes the marginal effect of sub-types of R&D investments on environment-related patents by focusing on the USA and Canada as the leading R&D investing countries, using data between 1990 and 2021, and adopting a kernel-based regularized least squares (KRLS) model. The results show that on the patents (i) R&D investments in cross-cutting technologies/research, nuclear, and renewable have a stimulating effect in the USA; (ii) R&D investments in renewable support the increase in Canada; (iii) in both USA and Canada, R&D investments in fossil fuels have a decreasing effect, whereas R&D investments in energy efficiency have no significant effect; (iv) Among all, R&D investments in cross-cutting technologies/research (renewable) have the highest increasing effect on the patents in USA (Canada); (v) marginal effect of the sub-types of R&D investments on the patents varies across factors, countries, and percentiles; (vi) the KRLS model has a high prediction performance, reaching ~97.1%. Overall, the study emphasizes the average and pointwise marginal effects of R&D investments on the patents, which imply that R&D investments should be re-distributed by considering their effects on the patents so that a successful policy on environmental patents can be designed by benefitting energy-related R&D investments.

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  • Dilvin TaÅŸkın & Serpil Kılıç Depren & Fatih Ayhan, 2024. "How Are Energy-Related R&D Investments Effective on Environment-Related Patents? Empirical Evidence from the USA and Canada," Journal of Sustainable Development Issues (JOSDI), SDIjournals, vol. 2(2), pages 115-128, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:arv:journl:v:2:y:2024:i:2:p:115-128
    DOI: 10.62433/josdi.v2i2.36
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    Keywords

    Environmental Patents; Energy-Related R&D Investments; USA; Canada; KRLS Model;
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    JEL classification:

    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • O51 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada

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