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de Cunzo, Francesco, Petri, Alberto, Zaccaria, Andrea and Sbardella, Angelica (2022) 'The trickle down from environmental innovation to productive complexity.' Scientific Reports, 12 (1). p. 22141.

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Abstract

We study the empirical relationship between green technologies and industrial production at very fine-grained levels by employing Economic Complexity techniques. Firstly, we use patent data on green technology domains as a proxy for competitive green innovation and data on exported products as a proxy for competitive industrial production. Secondly, with the aim of observing how green technological development trickles down into industrial production, we build a bipartite directed network linking single green technologies at time t1 to single products at time t2≥t1 on the basis of their time-lagged co-occurrences in the technological and industrial specialization profiles of countries. Thirdly, we filter the links in the network by employing a maximum entropy null-model. Our results emphasize a strong connection between green technologies and the export of products related to the processing of raw materials, notably crucial for the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies. Furthermore, by looking at the evolution of the network over time, we observe a growing presence of more complex green technologies and high-tech products among the significant links, suggesting an increase in their importance in the network.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Finance & Management
ISSN: 20452322
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25940-6
SWORD Depositor: JISC Publications Router
Date Deposited: 27 Dec 2022 11:00
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38501

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