accelerating innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies: technology capabilities,...
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There is a need for innovation and industrial upgrade policies to be co-ordinated with renewable energy capacity obligations for Bulgaria and other accession member states to the EU: that was the main message of a presentation by CambridgeIP’s CEO Ilian Iliev at a recent workshop on The Costs and Benefits of Renewables: Biomass organised by the Center for Study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria.TRANSCRIPT
Accelerating innovation and diffusion of renewable energy
technologies: technology capabilities, business practices and
policy options
The Costs and Benefits of Renewables: Biomass
Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia Bulgaria
26th April 2011
ILIAN ILIEV
CEO of CambridgeIP
Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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Scope of policy support measures/interventions
• Tick boxes for EU obligations/regulations?
– Focus on the boxes... But missed opportunities for industrial renewal
• Support migration of domestic economy to greater energy
efficiency?
– Accelerated technology deployment
– Value chain strategy/ sequencing
• Support employment? Stability and sustainability in
agriculture?
– Sustainable policies – whether biofuels or foodstock
• Higher value-added in domestic economy? Boost value of
exports?
– Value chain strategy
– Focus on value retention, processing plants
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Outline
• CambridgeIP’s work in renewable energy
• Primer on IP, innovation and tech. diffusion
• IP and cleantech
• Biomass and Biofuels
• Policy questions
3
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sanitation
Refineries,
power gen,
co-gen.
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Outline
• CambridgeIP’s work in renewable energy
• Primer on IP, innovation and tech. diffusion
• IP and cleantech
• Biomass and Biofuels
• Policy questions
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Types of IPRs
A modern and complex technology product is protected by
different forms of IPRs
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Trademark: protection of the
word/symbol denoting the origin of a
good
Patents: ability to prevent others from
using your technology
e.g. patents around turbine
transmission systems
Trade secrets: non-disclosed and
commercially valuable information
e.g. production or installation
methods
Copyright: protecting the form of
expression
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behalf of company
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IPRs as a way of promoting innovation
• IPRs are a state-created mechanism allowing inventors to capture a
return on their investment by giving them the rights to decide how
their invention will be used
• At the heart of IPRs is a trade-off between static efficiency (best
use of today’s knowledge) and dynamic efficiency (creating
tomorrow’s knowledge)
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Close relation between IPRs and R&D financing
• Various studies have shown a relationship between levels of R&D
and inventiveness and patenting trends
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How are IPRs used in practice?
The IPR mechanism/arrangement used at each part of the technology innovation chain can
determine next stage options for technology transfer/diffusion
The full range of stakeholders have an influence on how IPRs are used, from investors to
competitors to governments
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Collabo-ration
Licensing
Spin-off
Value Chain Partners/Collaborators
Competitors
Role of IPRs in Each Part of Innovation Chain
? ? ? ? ? ?
Product
Licence
Services
Multiple business models and ways of using IPRs, depending on industry history, economics, inherited business models, norms, etc.
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Outline
• CambridgeIP’s work in renewable energy
• Primer on IP, innovation and tech. diffusion
• IP and cleantech
• Biomass and Biofuels
• Policy questions
11
IPRs and cleantech: increasingly complex and rapidly
maturing environment
Different studies all show accelerated patenting in low-carbon energy
technologies
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…accompanied by accelerated deployment of
technology in the market place
Wind Solar PV
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Hence an increased need and urgency to understand the role of IPRs
in technology development and transfer of climate-related
technologies, and implications for policy makers
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Outline
• CambridgeIP’s work in renewable energy
• Primer on IP, innovation and tech. diffusion
• IP and cleantech
• Biomass and Biofuels
• Policy questions
14
What about Biomass/biofuels ?
Several relevant technology spaces in biomass/
biofuels, incl.
• Biomass production techniques
– 1st generation: pre-dating oil production
– 2nd generation: use of waste, non-competitive to food stocks
– 3rd/4th generation: GM, algal-biofuels,etc
• Biomass – to – electricity and/or heat technologies
• Transport technologies adaptation
– E.g. dual-fuel auto, jet engines
• Industrial processes/chemicals production
– E.g. biomass-based glycol
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Biomass production: 3rd/4th Generation: E.g. Algal biofuels
• Backed by oil-majors, incl. Exxon, Shell
– E.g. Exxon $600mln investment in Synthetic Genomics
• Various government initiatives for development
– E.g. Carbon Trust (UK): value chain initiative to boost country’s
position in 3rd/4th generation biofuels
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Biomass-to-electricity: patenting trends
Biomass: Patent Applications by Year
34 2648
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11193
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Industrial processes: Glycol production
• Petrochemical-based glycols are a $50bln market, used for
plastics, pharma applications
• Process innovations allow production of glycol from 1st and
2nd generation biomass
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Possibility to boost productivity of
agriculture + retain more value in
domestic economy
Synergies with H2 production – also for
transport industry
Outline
• CambridgeIP’s work in renewable energy
• Primer on IP, innovation and tech. diffusion
• IP and cleantech
• Biomass and Biofuels
• Policy questions
19
Scope of policy support measures/interventions
• Tick boxes for EU obligations/regulations?
– Focus on the boxes... But missed opportunities for industrial renewal
• Support migration of domestic economy to greater energy
efficiency?
– Accelerated technology deployment
– Value chain strategy
• Support employment? Stability and sustainability in
agriculture?
– Sustainable policies – whether biofuels or foodstock
• Higher value-added in domestic economy? Boost value of
exports?
– Value chain strategy (e.g. Brazil – 20 years’ support for ethanol)
– Focus on value retention, processing plants
– Technology adaptation & development
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…and finally…
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(CEO and Co-founder)
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