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Patents - technology diffusion

<p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Patent statistics and indicators are suitable for tracking innovation in environment-related technologies. They allow the assessment of countries&apos; innovation performance as well as the design of governments&apos; environmental and innovation policies.</span></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This dataset presents data on patent applications by patent office.</span></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For more information on the methodology, click the link below on &quot;Database documentation&quot;</span></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Data source(s)</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">OECD, STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database,<span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"> <a href="http://oe.cd/ipstats">http://oe.cd/ipstats</a></span></span></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Contact</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">:&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:ENV.Stat@oecd.org"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ENV.Stat@oecd.org</span></a></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dataset release date</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">: April 16, 2026</span></p> <p style='text-align: justify;color: rgb(24, 32, 38);background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: "'><span style='font-size:16px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'><a href="https://webfs-env.oecd.org/files/Patent%20metadata.pdf">Database documentation</a></span></p>