The Santa Clara High Technology Journal’s 2010 article, The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer, reviews the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and the hurdles it can provide for international technology transfer. It suggests that patent protection in a host country encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. It concludes that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area.