AI-SDV 2022: The race to net zero: Tracking the green industrial revolution through IP Chris Harrison (Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom, UK)
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The document outlines the UK's innovation strategy aiming for a green industrial revolution, which includes a commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through a ten-point plan. It emphasizes the importance of intellectual property rights in fostering research and development, and various reports highlight the patent landscapes in key green technology areas. Additionally, it discusses the UK's initiatives, such as the green channel for patents, aimed at promoting environmentally beneficial inventions.
AI-SDV 2022: The race to net zero: Tracking the green industrial revolution through IP Chris Harrison (Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom, UK)
- 1. The race to net zero: Tracking the green industrial revolution through IP Chris Harrison Head of IP Analytics and Data Insights UK Intellectual Property Office AI-SDV, October 2022
- 2. UK Innovation Strategy: Leading the future by creating it • Published July 2021 • Sets out the government’s vision to make the UK a global hub for innovation by 2035 • The government seeks to generate disruptive inventions, the most tech-centric industry and government in the world, more ‘unicorns’, and a nation of firms and people that all aspire to innovate • At a systemic level, the government has a target of increasing public and private sector R&D expenditure to 2.4% of GDP to support the UK being a science superpower with a world-class research and innovation system • IP rights create an incentive for R&D, which ultimately leads to innovation • Analysis and insights from IP data can therefore help provide a better understanding of how the IP system is being used and where and what innovation is taking place https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-innovation-strategy-leading-the-future-by-creating-it
- 3. The path to net zero • In 2019 the UK was the first major economy to embrace a legal obligation to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 • In 2020 the UK published a Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial revolution • In 2021 the UK published a net zero strategy to keep us on track for UK carbon budgets and net zero by 2050 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/net-zero-strategy
- 4. UK Ten Point Plan (10PP) for a Green Industrial Revolution The plan focuses on increasing ambition in the following areas: • advancing offshore wind • driving the growth of low carbon hydrogen • delivering new and advanced nuclear power • accelerating the shift to zero emission vehicles • green public transport, cycling and walking • ‘jet zero’ and green ships • greener buildings • investing in carbon capture, usage and storage • protecting our natural environment • green finance and innovation https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-ten-point-plan-for-a-green-industrial-revolution
- 5. The green technology patent landscape • UKIPO has published a series of seven mini-reports looking at the worldwide patent landscapes in the different green technology areas of the Ten Point Plan (10PP) for a Green Industrial Revolution: • offshore wind • low-carbon hydrogen • nuclear power • environmentally-friendly transportation (zero emission vehicles, green public transport, jet zero and green ships) • heat pumps (greener buildings) • carbon capture, usage and storage • flood and coastal defences (protecting our natural environment) • These reports were published on the Science and Innovation day of the UN COP26 Summit that was held in Glasgow, UK, in November 2021
- 6. Global growth of international patent families (IPFs) in 10PP technologies versus all technologies, 2000-2020 (base 100 in 2000)
- 7. Analysis using international patent families (IPFs) • Our analysis is done using international patent families (IPFs), which represent a unique invention and includes published patent applications in at least two countries • This is a more reliable measure of inventive activity than using absolute counts of published patent applications • IPFs are a reliable and neutral proxy for inventive activity because they provide a degree of control for patent quality and value by only representing inventions deemed important enough by the applicant to seek protection internationally (Dernis et al., 2001; Harhoff et al., 2003; Van Pottelsberghe and van Zeebroeck, 2008; Frietsch and Schmoch, 2010; Martinez, 2011; Squicciarini et al., 2013; Dechezleprêtre et al., 2017) • IPFs enables a comparison of the innovative activities of countries, fields and companies internationally, since it creates a sufficiently homogeneous population of patent families that can be directly compared with one another, thereby reducing the national biases that often arise when comparing patent applications across different national patent offices
- 8. Putting absolute patenting levels into context nc,t = number of patents for country c in technology t nt = sum of patents in all countries in technology t Nc = number of patents for country c N = sum of patents for all countries More specialised Less specialised • Using the Relative Specialisation Index (RSI) • Defined as a country's share of patents in a particular technology, divided by that country's share of patents in all fields of technology • It controls, to an extent, for the different propensities to patent globally • The Relative Specialisation Index (RSI) for country c in technology t is defined as: 𝑅𝑆𝐼 = 𝑋 − 1 𝑋 + 1 𝑋𝑐,𝑡 𝑛𝑐,𝑡 𝑁𝑐 𝑁𝑡 𝑁 where > 0 < 0
- 9. Relative Specialisation Index for 10PP technologies, 2000-2020 RSI ranking Offshore wind Low-carbon hydrogen Nuclear power Greener vehicles Greener buildings Carbon capture, usage and storage Flood and coastal defences 1 UK Australia France Germany UK Australia South Korea 2 France Canada UK France France Canada Australia 3 South Korea USA Canada UK Australia India Canada 4 India France South Korea USA Canada UK Japan 5 Australia Germany Japan Canada Germany South Korea China 6 China Japan USA India India USA France 7 Germany UK China South Korea USA France UK 8 USA South Korea Australia China South Korea China India 9 Canada India India Australia China Japan USA 10 Japan China Germany Japan Japan Germany Germany Rankings calculated using the Relative Specialisation Index, and limited to comparing the top 10 patenting countries worldwide – see individual reports for further details
- 10. Global growth of international patent families (IPFs) in green and brown technologies versus all technologies, 2000-2020 (base 100 in 2000)
- 11. Technology breakdown of IPFs relating to green technologies, 2000-2020
- 12. Top UK green patent owners, 2000-2020
- 13. Identifying ‘green specialists’ in the UK, 2000-2020
- 14. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future" • Set up in 2015 • Intended to be achieved by 2030 • Last year PatentSight mapped patent data to the targets and indicators of the UN SDGs • 13 SDGs mapped to the global patent system* • 97 predefined sustainable technology fields *No patent mapping possible to SDGs 8, 10, 16 and 17
- 15. SDG-related patenting over past 20 years (IPFs, 2002-2021)
- 16. SDG-related patenting over past 5 years (IPFs, 2017-2021)
- 17. SDG-related IPFs for top 10 patenting countries
- 18. SDG split for green tech patents (IPFs, 2002-2021)
- 19. UKIPO Green Channel • Introduced in May 2009 • Accelerated patent processing • Search, • Publication, and/or • Substantive examination • Invention has to have an environmental benefit • No fee
- 20. UKIPO Green Channel usage Green Channel applications per year Proportion of green tech patents filed in the UK using the Green Channel
- 21. Top users of the UKIPO Green Channel
- 22. IP Analytics - more than just patents… (UK00003523771) (UK00003707942) (UK00918111321) (UK00915089733) (UK00003408161) (UK00918168156) (UK00003541203)
- 23. EUIPO Green classifier using machine-supported learning https://euipo.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/observatory/documents/reports/2021_Green_EU_trade_marks/2021_Green_EU_trade_marks_FullR_en.pdf
- 24. Green trade marks in the UK, 2000-2021
- 25. Green trade marks in the UK by product group, 2000-2021
- 26. Green trade marks in the UK by product group, 2000-2021
- 27. Green trade marks in the UK by applicant country, 2000-2021 Country Number of green TMs in UK % of green TMs United Kingdom 42,507 5.1% China 8,616 14.3% United States of America 3,736 6.5% Germany 1,011 11.9% Hong Kong, SAR China 669 11.2% Switzerland 586 9.0% France 562 9.0% South Korea 490 14.2% Japan 485 8.3% Canada 404 8.1%
- 28. Green IP trends across rights (UK applicants), 2001-2020
- 29. • Full analytical paper to be published approx. November 2022 on gov.uk • More broadly, the role of IP in supporting green technologies and promoting innovations to help us get to net zero is a key corporate priority for UKIPO • We want to create the right environment to give entrepreneurs, innovators, and businesses the confidence to create greener technologies that will enhance environmental improvements • We are looking at further opportunities to better promote the development and adoption of green technologies through the IP framework • We are also engaging internationally with WIPO GREEN to share best practice and understand initiatives that other offices have enacted to assist IP in green technologies (inc. a co-hosted UKIPO - WIPO GREEN webinar 30 November 2-3pm CET) • We are currently reviewing our options from a policy perspective but plan to take this forward in the coming months Next steps
- 30. Thank you Chris Harrison Head of IP Analytics and Data Insights christopher.harrison@ipo.gov.uk