
Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2021
What can patent data reveal about global progress in green innovation, and what might be achieved in years to come?
Introduction
Worldwide industrial activities have had a significant impact on the environment, including climate change. In this report, we review some of these impacts but – more appropriate to our expertise – focus on organisations’ development of, and investment in, innovation to tackle such problems, using patent data and industry insight as a barometer of activity.