Variable: Development of environment-related technologies, % inventions worldwide

QoG Code: (gg_etpw)


Dataset: Green Growth

Description:

The number of environment-related inventions expressed as a percentage of environment-related inventions worldwide.

Indicators of technology development are constructed by measuring inventive activity using patent data across a wide range of environment-related technological domains (ENV-TECH), including environmental management, water-related adaptation, and climate change mitigation technologies. The counts used here include only higher-value inventions (with patent family size = 2, meaning inventions filed in two or more jurisdictions).

Type of variable: Continuous



Categories:

Environment


Find this variable in:

Environmental Indicators - 2021 Original Dataset

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