Patterns of expectations for emerging sustainable technologies

Alkemade, Floortje; Suurs, R.A.A.

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.014

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“…These former findings are consistent with our empirical results, whereas survey respondents indicated amongst several other causalities, their primary rationales for abandoning diversification initiatives in these new energy sectors laid in the exogenous political environment (Table A.5). In particular, unmet expectations (Alkemade and Suurs, 2012) of domestic market formation resulted in some firms abandoning these niches.…”

Section: Inter-temporal Cross-sectorial Dynamics For Oil and Gas Firmsmentioning

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Incumbents’ diversification and cross-sectorial energy industry dynamics

2017

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Within the sustainability transitions literature, established, mature or incumbent firms have been stereotyped as 'locked-in' to socio-technical regimes. However, we believe regimes have been blackboxed, and few studies have explored incumbents' responses to transition processes. This article aims to achieve an improved understanding of incumbents in established energy sectors and their extent of involvement in other (niche) energy sectors. To this avail, we analyze data from a first-ofits-kind survey of 133 incumbent firms in Norway's two main energy sectors, namely oil/gas and hydropower. Providing inter-temporal dimensions, our data covers incumbents' diversification activities beyond their primary sector both in the past (cancelled activities), present (ongoing activity in secondary sectors) and future (ambitions of diversification), and also distinguishes between producers and product/service suppliers. By incorporating insights on firm diversification, our analysis sheds new light on the complex transformation processes associated with sustainability transitions. Empirical results show considerable heterogeneity in incumbents' responses to changing selection pressures, which can be explained by recognition that windows of opportunity are opening and some incumbents see potential to leverage their resources and capabilities to capture value in new niche energy sectors in both domestic and international markets. Highlights Multidisciplinary analytical approach to explore cross-sectorial industry dynamics  Novel quantitative study design with inter-temporal and cross-sectorial dimensions  Empirical mapping also captures incumbents' various value chain positions  Results show that energy incumbents are diversified into other (green) energy sectors  Industrial change processes are underpinned through empirical explanatory factors

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Section: Inter-temporal Cross-sectorial Dynamics For Oil and Gas Firmsmentioning

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“…in Asia and Latin America) and developed nations are currently witnessing stability in ICT penetration, Africa still has great potential for its adoption. The policy relevance of this fact becomes clear when one considers that on the one hand, the SSA region has been experiencing increasing levels of non-inclusive development, while elsewhere, ICT has been documented to play a substantial role in non-exclusive development (Alkemade & Surrs, 2012;Ojo et al, 2012;Mishra & Bisht, 2013). Extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world, however, within SSA, there has been growing exclusive development and increasing poverty.…”

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Enhancing ICT for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Roux

2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development in a sample of 49 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence present in this study, is based on instrumental variable Tobit regressions, in order to account for simultaneity and the limited range in the dependent variable. In the interest of increasing room for policy implications and controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity, the analysis is decomposed into the fundamental characteristics that human development based on: income levels, legal origins, religious dominations, political stability, landlockedness and resource-wealth. Our findings show that policies designed to boost ICT (mobile phone, internet, telephone) penetration will increase inclusive development in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. The degree of positive responsiveness of inclusive development to ICT varies across fundamental characteristics of human development and ICT dynamics. The study has substantial policy relevance because the adoption and/or penetration rate of ICT can be influenced by policy to achieve inclusive development outcomes. Further policy implications are also discussed.

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“…The positioning of the inquiry extends macroeconomic literature on the employment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for entrepreneurial purposes, notably: emphasis on entrepreneurs that are continuously innovating because of evolving skills and financial resources (Best, 2015); the use of social media to promote entrepreneurship (Jones et al, 2015;McCann & Barlow, 2015;Wang, 2016); knowledge sharing in entrepreneurial success (Allen et al, 2016); the use of social entrepreneurship to drive technology (Mulloth et al, 2016); the creation and discovery of innovation opportunities (Wan et al, 2015;Hang et al, 2015); innovations in technology that are offering novel opportunities due to the roadmapping of patents (Jeong & Yoon, 2015); doing business avenues that are associated with an ageing population (Kohlbacher et al, 2015) on the one hand and emerging ecosystems on the other hand (Overholm, 2015); research collaborations (McKelveyet al, 2015) and scientific entrepreneurial business opportunities (Maine et al, 2015). Moreover, the present inquiry steers clear of the bulk of studies on the use of ICT for social change and development outcomes, notably: the distributional externalities of growing technologies (see Cozzens, 2011), especially in sustainable development (Alkemade & Surrs, 2012); the relevance of mobile phones in social outcomes (Brouwer & Brito, 2012;Islama & Meadeb, 2012;Mira & Dangersfield, 2012;Amankwah-Amoah, 2015Amankwah-Amoah & Sarpong, 2016) in both developed nations (Thakar, 2012) and developing (Sonne, 2012;Gupta & Jain, 2012) countries.…”

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Mobile Phone Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu

Biekpe

2017

SSRN Journal

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This study assesses how knowledge diffusion modulates the effect of the mobile phone on Second, the mobile phone interacts with education (the internet) to have a positive (negative) net effect on the time needed to construct a warehouse whereas, the corresponding interaction with the internet yields a net negative effect on the time to enforce a contract. Third, there is a positive net effect from the interaction of mobile phones with education on the time to start a business. Given the construction of the education variable, the positive net effects from education are consistent with corresponding negative net effects from the other knowledge diffusion variables. The main policy implication is that mobile phone innovation (by means of internet penetration, scientific output and quality education) decreases constraints of entrepreneurship. Suggestions on how to boost these knowledge diffusion channels are discussed. Other practical and theoretical implications are also covered. To the best our knowledge, this is the first inquiry to assess the relevance of mobile phone innovation in entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Patterns of expectations for emerging sustainable technologies

Cited by 128 publications

References 40 publications

Incumbents’ diversification and cross-sectorial energy industry dynamics

Incumbents’ diversification and cross-sectorial energy industry dynamics

Enhancing ICT for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mobile Phone Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

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