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Knowledge flows and technologies in renewable energies at the regional level in Europe

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posted on 2020-09-09, 10:10 authored by Diego B. Ocampo-Corrales, Rosina Moreno, Jordi Suriñach

This study provides a new insight into the impact of knowledge flows for renewable energy (RE) technologies. With patent data for the European regions in the period 2000–10, we observe that RE technologies have more analytical knowledge content than the rest of the technologies. They also seem to benefit highly from both scientific knowledge flows and technological knowledge flows coming from distant places. This pattern is peculiar to the RE field and different from other cutting-edge technologies, and even different from those technologies related to energy generation coming from traditional energy sectors.

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Diego Ocampo-Corrales acknowledges the financial support provided by the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Rosina Moreno acknowledges financial support provided by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad for the project entitled ‘Innovation and Locational Factors: Diversification, Knowledge and the Environmental Revolution’ [grant number ECO2017-86976-R]. Jordi Suriñach acknowledges financial support provided by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad for the project entitled ‘Estrategias territoriales para mejorar la resistencia en tiempos de crisis’ [grant number ECO2016-75805-R]. All errors remain the authors’ own.

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    innovationrenewable energiesknowledge basespatentscitationsO3Q4

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