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  • 12 - Recent Trends of Innovation and IP Use in the Mining Sector in Australia

  • Edited by Alica Daly, David Humphreys, University of Dundee, Julio Raffo, Giulia Valacchi
  • Book:
    Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries
    Published online:
    14 April 2022
    Print publication:
    21 April 2022, pp 308-341
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    It is hard to overstate the significance of the mining industry’s contribution to the Australian economy but the narrative around mining is generally not focused on the technology, innovation or intellectual property that drives the industry today. This chapter aims to perform an investigation of the mining sector using patents to determine innovation trends and who is undertaking this work: the operating miners, publicly funded entities or the mining, equipment, technology and services (METS) firms? This chapter uses Australian firm-level data in combination with the patent database developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to detail the patent-filing activity and innovation areas in the mining sector. The ultimate aim is to determine whether Australians are innovators in the field, creating and exporting technology, or if Australian miners simply use other companies’ tools and innovations to dig their resources out of the ground.