Engineering and Technology

Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data

V. Verendel

This paper presents a groundbreaking analysis of the intersection between artificial intelligence and climate innovations, revealing significant insights from over 6 million US patents. Conducted by Vilhelm Verendel, the research uncovers how AI is crucial in enhancing inventions related to transportation, energy, and industrial production, while also promoting knowledge spillover across different technological fields.... show more

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading rapidly in many technology areas, and AI inventions may help climate change mitigation and adaptation. Previous studies of climate-related AI mainly rely on expert studies of literature, not large-scale data. Here I present an approach to track the relation between AI and climate inventions on an economy-wide scale. Analysis of over 6 million US patents, 1976 to 2019, shows that within climate patents, AI is referred to most often in transportation, energy and industrial production technologies. In highly cited patents, AI occurs more frequently in adaptation and transport than in other climate mitigation areas. AI in climate patents was associated with around 30–100% more subsequent inventions when counting all technologies. Yet AI-climate patents led to a greater share of citations from outside the climate field than non-AI-climate patents. This suggests the importance of tracking both increased invention activity and the areas where subsequent inventions emerge.

Publisher

Nature Climate Change

Published On

Jan 12, 2023

Authors

Vilhelm Verendel

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01536-w

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