Production and Innovation in Photovoltaic Industry
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chiu, Yu-Chieh
Abstract
This study analyzes the production and innovation in the global photovoltaic industry by use of the patenting data in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) between 1966 and 2006. First, we discuss the development in the field of photovoltaic technology by separating time into four durations, and then analyze the patenting performances of the world’s leading countries and firms. In addition, we take the world''s top 20 largest solar manufacturers as the object of study to analyze how they produce and innovate and discuss the efficiency of applying their patent into the actual production.
We find that the global photovoltaic patents belong to the forerunners - the United States, Japan and Germany, and latecomers - South Korea, Taiwan and China, with the U.S. and Japan two technical abilities are far more than other countries. By analyzing the world''s top 20 largest solar manufacturers’ production and innovation, we also find they can be divided into three categories, according the way they innovate and produce, namely：(1) perform outstandingly in both production and patenting, (2) outstanding production with few patents, (3) excellent production but no patent. Finally, we focus on the situation of Taiwan PV industry and offer some suggestions for future development.
Subjects
Photovoltaic industry
Solar cell
Production
Innovation
Patent
SDGs
Type
thesis
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