| Development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 11.96 | 12.85 | 13.53 | 12.13 | 10.87 | 10.55 | 10.27 | 9.61 | 9.16 |
| Relative advantage | | 1.19 | 1.15 | 1.15 | 1.03 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 1.01 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.72 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.77 |
| Inventions per capita | | 14.63 | 15.09 | 14.56 | 13.37 | 11.97 | 11.98 | 11.37 | 10.55 | 10.18 |
| Inventions per unit of government R&D | | 1.17 | 0.73 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.74 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.62 | 0.55 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 23.14 | 32.86 | 30.7 | 32.11 | 26.97 | 26.58 | 24.61 | 25.57 | 33.35 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 10.57 | 6.32 | 5.37 | 4.73 | 7.16 | 7.17 | 5.94 | 6.87 | 4.81 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 29.31 | 28.89 | 27.15 | 23.33 | 24.41 | 23.48 | 27.93 | 25.34 | 18.09 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 15.96 | 13.57 | 15.15 | 17.39 | 11.62 | 14.5 | 13.42 | 17.99 | 19.15 |
| Climate change mitigation in information and communication technologies (ICT) | | 0.92 | 0.4 | 0.88 | 1.72 | 1.92 | 3.26 | 3.28 | 2.39 | 1.79 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 2.44 | 3.33 | 3.47 | 1.37 | 1.64 | 2.44 | 0.9 | 2.56 | 1.79 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 6.13 | 5.91 | 6.49 | 5.64 | 6.67 | 5.68 | 6.87 | 8.3 | 5.73 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 5.8 | 3.76 | 5.02 | 8.69 | 15.64 | 10.53 | 12.39 | 6.02 | 6.87 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 5.73 | 4.95 | 5.77 | 5.01 | 3.97 | 6.36 | 4.65 | 4.95 | 8.43 |
| Diffusion of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 10.26 | 11.26 | 12.61 | 11.61 | 10.99 | 9.82 | 8.93 | 8.14 | 7.75 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 3.27 | 3.33 | 3.5 | 3.02 | 2.76 | 2.5 | 2.17 | 2.06 | 2.19 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | General environmental management | | 30.52 | 29.13 | 28.6 | 28.32 | 27.31 | 28.99 | 29.47 | 27.23 | 27.97 |
| Water-related adaptation technologies | | 6.6 | 5.75 | 4.89 | 4.63 | 4.8 | 4.18 | 5.61 | 4.09 | 4.58 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 24.95 | 27.69 | 27.54 | 26.82 | 28.19 | 24.98 | 23.95 | 27.16 | 23.37 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 16.91 | 15.37 | 17.43 | 16.89 | 15.25 | 16.38 | 17.39 | 17.63 | 16.28 |
| Climate change mitigation in information and communication technologies (ICT) | | 2.24 | 1.8 | 1.89 | 2.56 | 2.55 | 4.91 | 2.98 | 3.16 | 4.71 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 2.82 | 3.7 | 3.26 | 2.86 | 2.9 | 2.61 | 2.01 | 1.97 | 2.21 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 6.46 | 6.39 | 5.99 | 7.19 | 7.64 | 6.28 | 7 | 6.1 | 6.85 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 4.72 | 5.41 | 5.58 | 5.63 | 6.31 | 5.99 | 6.83 | 6.44 | 8.4 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 4.77 | 4.77 | 4.84 | 5.1 | 5.06 | 5.68 | 4.77 | 6.23 | 5.64 |
| International collaboration in development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of collaborations in all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 5.8 | 6.02 | 8 | 10.08 | 9.06 | 7.67 | 6.39 | 6.34 | 5.63 |
| Propensity to collaborate with foreign countries in environment-related technologies | Total patents | | 582.61 | 440.44 | 525.28 | 562.59 | 570.15 | 646.05 | 572.26 | 577.22 | 540.02 |
| Environment-related technologies | | 45.54 | 35.19 | 54 | 52.2 | 49.2 | 55.44 | 38.35 | 39.53 | 36.26 |
| Development of renewable energy technologies | Inventions per unit of public RD&D | | 3.63 | 1.8 | 1.43 | 0.64 | 0.45 | 0.21 | 1.08 | 0.59 | 1.34 |