New EPO-EIB study: EU single market is a key catalyst for scaling clean and sustainable inventions

On the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, the EPO has published a study with the EIB on the commercialisation of clean and sustainable technologies. It finds that cleantech inventions surged by 33% from 2016 to 2021.
More than 750 000 inventions were published for clean and sustainable technologies between 1997 and 2021, accounting for almost 12% of all inventions during this period. These findings feature in the latest EPO-EIB joint report “Financing and commercialisation of cleantech innovation". From 2016 to 2021, clean tech inventions surged by 33%, with almost 55 000 inventions recorded in 2021 alone. The report also includes a comprehensive survey of Europe's cleantech innovators, highlighting their activities in the domain of clean sustainable technologies and the support they need to bring their inventions to market.

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