  Green technology is viewed as a means of creating a sustainable society and a
catalyst for sustainable development by the global community. It is responsible
for both the potential reduction of production waste and the reduction of
carbon footprint and CO2 emissions. However, alongside with the growing
popularity of green technologies, there is an emerging skepticism about their
contribution to solving environmental challenges. This article focuses on three
areas of eco-innovation in green technology: renewable energy, hydrogen power,
and decarbonization. Our main goal is to analyze the relationship between
publication activity and the number of patented research results, thus shedding
light on the real-world applicability of scientific outcomes. We used several
bibliometric methods for analyzing global publication and patent activity,
applied to the Scopus citation database and the European Patent Office's patent
database. Our results show that the advancement of research in all three areas
of eco-innovation does not automatically lead to the increase in the number of
patents. We offer possible reasons for such dependency based on the
observations of the worldwide tendencies in green innovation sphere.
