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<p>This study investigates the role of environmental policies and regulations in mitigating climate change by promoting clean innovations and discouraging dirty ones. Utilizing nonparametric copula and quantile estimation techniques, along with carefully constructed innovation variables based on patents from 2000 to 2021 across 34 countries, the research examines the effects of policy interventions and external events on energy-related innovations. Findings reveal that climate policy interventions effectively promote clean innovation, particularly at higher levels, and discourage dirty innovations. Therefore, climate change policies and regulations are crucial in achieving net-zero carbon emission targets.</p>
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This study investigates the role of environmental policies and regulations in mitigating climate change by promoting clean innovations and discouraging dirty ones. Utilizing nonparametric copula and quantile estimation techniques, along with carefully constructed innovation variables based on patents from 2000 to 2021 across 34 countries, the research examines the effects of policy interventions and external events on energy-related innovations. Findings reveal that climate policy interventions effectively promote clean innovation, particularly at higher levels, and discourage dirty innovations. Therefore, climate change policies and regulations are crucial in achieving net-zero carbon emission targets.

On the Impact of Climate Change Policies on the Clean Technology Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data Analysis

Department of Economics and Business Analytics

Environmental and Climate Technologies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This study investigates the role of environmental policies and regulations in mitigating climate change by promoting clean innovations and discouraging dirty...

On the Impact of Climate Change Policies on the Clean Technology Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data Analysis

Publicado en línea: 02 dic 2023

Páginas: 850 - 863

Recibido: 04 ene 2023

Aceptado: 11 nov 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2023-0062

Palabras clave
Clean and dirty innovation, climate change, climate change mitigation policies, copula, environmental policy, nonparametric dependence test, nonparametric quantile regression, sustainable development

© 2023 Mehmet Balcilar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

On the Impact of Climate Change Policies on the Clean Technology Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data Analysis

Publicado en línea: 02 dic 2023

Páginas: 850 - 863

Recibido: 04 ene 2023

Aceptado: 11 nov 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2023-0062

Palabras claveClean and dirty innovation, climate change, climate change mitigation policies, copula, environmental policy, nonparametric dependence test, nonparametric quantile regression, sustainable development

© 2023 Mehmet Balcilar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
Clean and dirty innovation, climate change, climate change mitigation policies, copula, environmental policy, nonparametric dependence test, nonparametric quantile regression, sustainable development