furthermore the green growth poles are selfdynamic in nature with catalytic and spillover effects notably in terms of income generation enhanced technological and skills capacity as well as lower pressure on materialresource depletion and related resource pricing however in some areas eg ee in enduse sectors and renewable energy equipment additional investments will have to be made by a large number of small investors for which viable financing arrangementsfacilities should be made available furthermore mobilization of private investment in poor developing countries will not be straightforward and will likely require significant additional official development assistance and other foreign assistance as well as foreign direct investment similarly a group of companies including sony and nokia have created an ecopatent commons with initial donations of eerelated patents