Energy Technology Innovation : Learning from Historical Successes and Failures
Arnulf. Grübler
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (410 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Energy Technology Innovation; Title; Copyright; Contents; Author Bios; Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Energy Technology Innovation; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What is Energy Technology Innovation?; 1.2 Global Energy Challenges and the Rationale for This Book; 1.3 Aims and Intended Audiences; 2 Energy Technology Innovation: An Overview; 2.1 Energy Technology Innovation Historically; 2.2 Energy Technology Innovation: Concepts and Terms; 2.3 Energy Technology Innovation in a Nutshell; 2 The Energy Technology Innovation System. - 1 A Systemic Perspective on Energy Technology Innovation2 Overview of the Energy Technology Innovation System; 2.1 Four Dimensions of the Energy Technology Innovation System; 2.2 Energy Technology Innovation Systems in Context; 2.3 Where Does the Energy Technology Innovation System Come From?; 3 Dimensions and Processes of the Energy Technology Innovation System; 3.1 Dimensions and Processes (I) - Knowledge; 3.1.1 Introduction - Knowledge; 3.1.2 Knowledge Generation, Flows, and Spillovers; 3.1.3 Knowledge Codification; 3.1.4 Learning; 3.1.5 Knowledge Depreciation. - 1 Analysing Cross-Technology Diffusion Dynamics1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Aim and Method; 1.3 Data; 1.4 Logistic Growth Functions; 1.5 Spatial Disaggregation; 1.6 Overview of Analysis; 2 Findings: Industry-Level Growth; 2.1 Consistent Cross-Technology Relationship between Extent and Duration of Diffusion; 2.2 Shorter Duration but Less Extensive Growth as Technologies Diffuse Spatially; 3 Findings: Industry-Level and Unit-Level Growth; 3.1 Experimentation in the Formative Phase of a Technology's Life Cycle; 3.2 Formative Phase Growth in Unit Numbers but Not Unit Sizes; 4 Findings: Unit-Level Growth. - 1 Rationale for a Case Study Approach2 Selecting the Case Studies; 3 Overview of the Case Studies; 4 A Reader's Guide to the Case Studies; Part II Patterns and Linkages in the Energy Technology Innovation System; 4 Grand Designs: Historical Patterns and Future Scenarios of Energy Technological Change; Author's Summary; Editors' Guide; 1 Introduction; 2 Grand Patterns of Change; 2.1 Technology and Historical Energy Transitions; 2.2 Technological Change in Future Scenarios; 3 Conclusions; Further Reading; 5 Historical Diffusion and Growth of Energy Technologies; Author's Summary; Editors' Guide. - 3.2 Dimensions and Processes (II) - Actors and Institutions3.2.1 Introduction - Actors and Institutions; 3.2.2 Entrepreneurs and Risk Taking; 3.2.3 Shared Expectations; 3.2.4 Advocacy Coalitions and Resistance; 3.3 Dimensions and Processes (III) - Adoption and Use; 3.3.1 Introduction - Adoption and Use; 3.3.2 Adopter Preferences and Relative Advantage; 3.3.3 Economies of Scale; 3.3.4 Diseconomies of Scale; 3.4 Dimensions and Processes (IV) - Resources; 3.4.1 Introduction - Resources; 3.4.2 Resource Mobilisation; 3.4.3 Public Policy; 3 Historical Case Studies of Energy Technology Innovation. - 4.1 Up-Scaling Driven by Economies of Scale at the Unit Level. - Edited volume on factors determining success or failure of energy technology innovation, for researchers and policy makers.
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| ISBN | 9781107023222
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