China's wind industry: Leading in deployment, lagging in innovation

Lam, Long T; Branstetter, Lee; Azevedo, Inês M.L.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.023

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“…raising carbon prices, implementing national cap-and-trade program, creating regional spot market, requiring full purchase of guaranteed RE generation, 45 Interview with World Bank, 13 January 2010. 46 Karplus, Davidson and Kahrl (2017);Branstetter, and Azevedo (2017). 47 Karplus, Davidson and Kahrl (2017).…”

Section: Resolving the Curtailment Of Renewable Energy Inputsmentioning

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Transforming China's electricity sector: Politics of institutional change and regulation

Lin

Purra

2019

Energy Policy

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The political failure of China's first independent regulator in a strategic industry -the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), 2002-2013 -provides a natural experiment to uncover fundamental challenges to a gradualist approach to electricity market formation. Taking a political institutional approach, we show that while it was largely predictable that the breakup of the monopolistic power industry in 2002 created bureaucratic and corporate interests that would undercut the institutional role of SERC, subsequent difficulties in reforming electricity pricing, dispatch system, and integrating renewable energy sources strongly suggests that a central regulatory body would be necessary to lead a decisive transition to a market-based electricity market. AbstractThe political failure of China's first independent regulator in a strategic industry -the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), 2002-2013 -provides a natural experiment to uncover fundamental challenges to a gradualist approach to electricity market formation. Taking a political institutional approach, we show that while it was largely predictable that the breakup of the monopolistic power industry in 2002 created bureaucratic and corporate interests that would undercut the institutional role of SERC, subsequent difficulties in reforming electricity pricing, dispatch system, and integrating renewable energy sources strongly suggests that a central regulatory body would be necessary to lead a decisive transition to a market-based electricity market.

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Section: Resolving the Curtailment Of Renewable Energy Inputsmentioning

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Transforming China's electricity sector: Politics of institutional change and regulation

Lin

Purra

2019

Energy Policy

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“…for connecting the turbines to the electricity grid. As Lam et al (2017) pointed out, impressive levels of installed capacity expansion are not always matched by the innovativeness and learning rates of Chinese wind turbine manufacturers as they are still lagging behind their Western counterparts (see also Lema et al, 2016). The changing structure and the emergence of a GVC strand for wind turbines led by emerging Chinese lead firms changed the strategies of Danish component suppliers to also target these.…”

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Technology Transmission Across National Innovation Systems: The Role of Danish Suppliers in Upgrading the Wind Energy Industry in China

Haakonsson

Slepniov

2018

Eur J Dev Res

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This paper advances our understanding of how technology upgrading in the Chinese wind turbine industry is linked to internationalisation of Danish component suppliers. In order to grasp the interlinkages and implications hereof, the paper combines perspectives of global value chains (GVC), national innovation systems (NIS) and firm level capabilities. The paper employs a qualitative methodology, drawing on explorative case studies of component suppliers and their links to lead firms in the wind turbine industry. The findings of the paper highlight the new pattern of upgrading by upstream linkages, i.e. linking up with global suppliers in the wind turbine global value chain, and the new role of component suppliers as technology transmitters across national innovation systems into emerging markets. Conceptually, the paper contributes to understanding how technological catching up in value chains links to the intersection between national innovation systems, a process driven by global value chain dynamics.

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“…This section of our report draws upon the work of Lam, Branstetter, and Azevedo (2017), and our exposition in the next several paragraphs closely follows their analysis. These researchers start by counting all the wind patents in the worldwide patent statistical (PATSTAT) database published by patenting offices in China and in other regions with the most activity in wind turbine invention, manufacturing, and deployment, including the European Patent Office (EPO), the EU15 nations, Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States.…”

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“…However, this figure treats Chinese domestic patent grants as being equivalent to European or U.S. patent grants in quality. Lam et al (2017) assess the number of patents that were awarded to inventors in the major patenting offices-that is, the EPO and the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). When they restrict their sample to only those patents eventually granted by an EPO member state, the total number of patents drops substantially (figure 3.4).…”

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“…The results also indicate that Chinese turbine manufacturers increasingly rely on R&D centers outside of China to generate international patents. For instance, as noted by Lam et al (2017), in 2010 Envision Energy, a Jiangsu producer, established its Global Innovation Center in Denmark, and all of its EPO, USPTO, and PCT patents were assigned to its Danish counterpart, Envision Energy (Denmark) ApS. The Danish entity filed for all but one of these applications.…”

Section: Figure 36: Wind Power Patents Granted By Patent Cooperationmentioning

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China's wind industry: Leading in deployment, lagging in innovation

Cited by 79 publications

References 41 publications

Transforming China's electricity sector: Politics of institutional change and regulation

Transforming China's electricity sector: Politics of institutional change and regulation

Technology Transmission Across National Innovation Systems: The Role of Danish Suppliers in Upgrading the Wind Energy Industry in China

Accelerating Innovation in China’s Solar, Wind and Energy Storage Sectors

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