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Geographical and Industrial Dynamics of Chemical Inventions: The Case of Persistent Organic Pollutants

In: Industrial Dynamics and Firm Strategies in the Agrochemical Industry

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  • Gianluca Biggi

    (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a class of highly toxic chemical substances, and for this reason, their use, production, and trade have been banned across countries worldwide. I examine the first group of POPs to be banned (i.e., aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxaphene, DDT, pentachlorobenzene and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins) and investigate the historical and emergent pattern of POP-related inventions by way of a unique dataset that includes patent applications over the period 1991–2010. I find an industry growth over time characterized by an increasing number of new firms inventing around POP-related technologies as well as a diffusion in a range of new countries such as China, Argentina, Brazil and Russia rather than the USA, EU and Japan where POP-related inventions were first filed in history.

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  • Gianluca Biggi, 2024. "Geographical and Industrial Dynamics of Chemical Inventions: The Case of Persistent Organic Pollutants," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Industrial Dynamics and Firm Strategies in the Agrochemical Industry, chapter 0, pages 1-18, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-3-031-52689-3_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52689-3_1
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