How the quality of patents contributes to revitalising the innovation system?, evidence from the renewable energy sector

Milton Mauricio Herrera-Ramírez,Diana Marlene Barrios-Campos,Edgard Alberto Méndez-Morales

doi:10.19053/20278306.v11.n2.2021.12753

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Abstract

There is an intense discussion on the impact of the quality of patents on innovation and economic development. Consequently, measuring the quality of patents becomes an essential issue to understand how it affects the innovation system (IS). This paper shows a systematic review of patent quality indicators and their contribution to the literature. Additional to the systematic review, a dynamic behaviour hypothesis is developed to comprise how patent value indicators can be used to create a set of strategies to improve the innovation of the renewable energy sector. Our results show a novel framework for analysing the effects of patent value on the IS that could be useful for renewable energy diffusion in Latin-America.

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In the last decade, several countries have increased the number of patent applications as a consequence of subsidies and investment aimed to improve the innovation activities, in renewable energy technologies (Lu, 2013; Miyamoto & Takeuchi, 2019; Romano et al, 2017)
The results show twenty-three keywords identified into four clusters
A critical difficulty identified is that patent quality, in terms of useful social results, is generally not well-defined within the innovation system (IS)

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Several countries have increased the number of patent applications as a consequence of subsidies and investment aimed to improve the innovation activities, in renewable energy technologies (Lu, 2013; Miyamoto & Takeuchi, 2019; Romano et al, 2017). Patents include information that can be used as an indicator to assess the technological development of a country (Boeing & Mueller, 2016; Ernst, 2003). Researchers and policymakers have shown keen interest in patent analysis (Abbas et al, 2014; Squicciarini et al, 2013; Tseng et al, 2007). In this sense, the patent information systems provide several measures that have been used as quality indicators for patent analysis (Boeing & Mueller, 2019). The main research question of this paper is: How do quality and value patent measures promote the development of IS for the diffusion of renewable energy technologies?

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