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the commercialization stage of its advantaged technologies.
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In contrast, its policy
aims at exporting more low-carbon technologies and products to emerging markets,
including China, by demanding a stricter IPR standard in China.
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According to a
research by European scholars, 75 % international intellectual property trade in the
low-carbon science and technology invention and innovation are conducted among
developed countries, 18 % between developed and developing ones while even less
between the developing countries themselves.
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The fact is not that satisfactory to the EU, as China's export in clean energy
technologies and products is growing. EU's export amount of solar power, wind
power and hydro power to China was only $1.4 billion, representing less than 1 %
of its total export amount. Compared with the diminishing export proportion of the
new energy products and technologies in China, China's export to EU is growing
annually.
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Even some European scholars state that the renewable product exported
to China per 100 Euros costs 115 Euros in energy assistance to China.
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This frank
statement suggests that the EU strategy on the climate change and clean energy
development is not totally oriented from the global climate change or energy safety,
but its own commercial and political interests.
From the business perspective, the commercialized and advanced low-carbon
technologies mostly belong to private companies whose fundamental interests are
the maximization of profits. They therefore would not transfer freely or at a low
profit of their money-consuming technologies to competitors in other countries.
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Nitin Sethi,“Climate talks: US, others refuse to discuss IPR changes to help poor get clean tech”,
The Times of India, August 13, 2009, New Delhi,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/
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USTDA, “U.S. Trade and Development Agency ,Clean Energy Development in China Offers
New Export Opportunities for U.S. Technology Companies - USTDA Director Zak Encourages
pressreleases/2010/EastAsia/China/ChinaCleanEnergy_052110.pdf
;
Lori Montgomery and Brady
Dennis, “New Democratic Strategy for Creating Jobs Focuses on a Boost in Manufacturing”,
Washington Post
, August 4, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/
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Antoine Dechezlepr
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Invention and Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies on a Global Scale: A Study
Drawing on Patent Data, Final Report , December 2008
http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/
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Bo Wang, “Can CDM bring Technology Transfer to China? An Empirical Study of technology
transfer in China's CDM projects ”, Energy Policy, Vol 38(2010), 5, pp. 2572-2585.
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Freeman and Holslag,2009,p28.
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Garten Rothkopf, “Intellectual Property Protection and Green Growth: Analysis and
Implications for International Climate Negotiations”, A Report for The Global Intellectual Prop-
erty Center, September 2009,
http://www.gartenrothkopf.com/images/stories/docs/ipr%20and%
