Özet:

After the Second World War, the rapid increase in the population and the growth of the economies with the effect of the developments in the field of health and technology increased the need for energy in the production, distribution, and consumption processes.  The fact that the increasing energy need is generally met from fossil fuels has caused damage on the ecosystem that is difficult to rectify. For this reason, it has become a necessity for the future of the ecosystem to turn to cleaner and renewable production methods rather than the classical production methods that cause environmental destruction and deterioration of the ecological balance. In order to benefit from the advantages of Industry 4.0 at the stage of energy supply, storage and use with the developed environmental technologies, it is necessary to increase the share of R&D investments. At this point, the concept of “green energy”, which is easy to transport, and store compared to fossil and other types of energy, draws attention. In this study, an econometric analysis was conducted on selected OECD countries in order to examine the effects of industry 4.0 technologies, production forms containing climate change mitigating energies and green growth indicators on economic growth. In the analysis, the effects of selected green growth and environmental technologies patent indicators on GDP were examined.

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