We study whether remote sensing (RS), a set of technologies with global reach and a variety of applications, can be considered instrumental to the provision of global public goods (GPG). We exploit text information from patent data and apply structural topic modeling to identify topics related...

The paper analyses the potential of the hydrogen economy in German districts and cities. The paper focuses particularly on regions suffering from strong ongoing structural change. The assessment is based on quantitative indicators for the supply structures (renewable energy, pipeline network),...