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Does Environmental Economics lead to patentable research?

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  • Xiaojun Hu
  • Ronald Rousseau
  • Sandra Rousseau

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In this feasibility study, the impact of academic research from social sciences and humanities on technological innovation is explored through a study of citations patterns of journal articles in patents. Specifically we focus on citations of journals from the field of environmental economics in patents included in an American patent database (USPTO). Three decades of patents have led to a small set of journal articles (85) that are being cited from the field of environmental economics. While this route of measuring how academic research is validated through its role in stimulating technological progress may be rather limited (based on this first exploration), it may still point to a valuable and interesting topic for further research.

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  • Xiaojun Hu & Ronald Rousseau & Sandra Rousseau, 2019. "Does Environmental Economics lead to patentable research?," Papers 1905.02875, arXiv.org.
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