accelerating innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies: technology capabilities,...

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

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Desalination

and water

sanitation

Refineries,

power gen,

co-gen.

Smart grid

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transport

Clean coal

carbon capture

CO2-EOR

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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

e.g. control software written by/on

behalf of company


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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Role of IPRs in Each Part of Innovation Chain

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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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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

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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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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


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

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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


Possibility to boost productivity of

agriculture + retain more value in

domestic economy

Synergies with H2 production – also for

transport industry

Outline






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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

• 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


Feel free to discuss your specific technology intelligence requirements with Ilian

Visit CambridgeIP’s www.boliven.com for free patent searches

Thank you !

…and finally…

Ilian Iliev

(CEO and Co-founder)

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