Patents - technology development

Patent statistics and indicators are suitable for tracking innovation in environment-related technologies. They allow the assessment of countries' innovation performance as well as the design of governments' environmental and innovation policies.

This dataset presents data on inventions in environment-related technologies, using inventors’ country of residence, as well as on shares of inventions by gender of the inventor.

Data source(s): OECD, STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database, http://oe.cd/ipstats

Contact: [email protected]

Dataset release date: April 16, 2026

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