Determinants of the Pace of Global Innovation in Energy Technologies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Bettencourt, Luís M A ^a,b   Trancik, Jessika E ^a,c   Kaur, Jasleen ^d  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENERGY; ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; FUNDING; INVESTMENT; MARKET; PATENT; RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY;

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; INTERNATIONALITY; INVENTIONS; INVESTMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATENTS AS TOPIC; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885408080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067864     Document Type: Article

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