Photovoltaic inventions increased seventeen-fold in three decades

The European Patent Office says China has overtaken other countries in photovoltaic patent filings over the past 15 years, while European startups and universities retain a lead in agrivoltaics and niche solar applications. The European Patent Office's Observatory on Patents and Technology says innovation in PV has grown more than seventeen-fold over the last three decades. The office's technology insight report analyzes trends across 30 technologies over five decades. It covers 340,000 inventions, including 70,000 international patent families (IPFs) across photovoltaic materials, photovoltaic ...

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