Smart regulation for water innovation – the case of decentralized rainwater technology

Partzsch, Lena

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.01.009

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“…With 'persuasive' framing, the government mobilises relevant actors [27], [28] (p. 1084) and with 'political, legal and discursive' framing, it sets the interactive arena in which the governance process takes place [19] (p. 14). The government gives a certain meaning to a network of actors through framing and storytelling.…”

Section: Discursive Framing As An Instrument Of Powermentioning

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Facilitation as a Governance Strategy: Unravelling Governments’ Facilitation Frames

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2017

Sustainability

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Governments increasingly choose facilitation as a strategy to entice others to produce public goods and services, including in relation to the realisation of sustainable energy innovations. An important instrument to implement this governance strategy is discursive framing. To learn how public authorities use discursive framing to implement a facilitation strategy, we conducted a comparative case study on two Dutch examples in which the government aims to facilitate non-governmental actors to exploit public waterworks for the production of renewable energy. Using content analysis, we identify ten 'facilitation frame' elements. We find two configurations of elements: restrained facilitation and invitational facilitation, which both have their advantages, ambivalences and drawbacks. It is often unclear what governments want to achieve and what they have to offer in terms of facilitation. The (discursively) offered support, ranging from 'giving space' to 'creating beneficial conditions', is often elusive. We conclude that, to avoid deadlock, false expectations and the inactiveness of external actors, the government's communication should both enthuse and inform these actors about what they can expect. If, however, the potential, non-governmental initiators just lack the necessary capacity to act, there is only so much discursive framing can do. Then authorities should reconsider their 'facilitative' role.

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Section: Discursive Framing As An Instrument Of Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitation as a Governance Strategy: Unravelling Governments’ Facilitation Frames

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2017

Sustainability

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“…Unlike some fully off-grid configurations implemented elsewhere [3,4], system configurations in the UK are supplemented by mains water supplies for potable water applications such as drinking, bathing and dishwashing. Germany has seen strong uptake of RWH technologies as reported by Partzsch [5] with 80,000 installations per annum and a total industry value of 340 million Euros. With successful growth in that market driven by policies that seek to (financially) support green technologies, one in three houses constructed in 2005 installed a rainwater tank.…”

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Rainwater Harvesting Typologies for UK Houses: A Multi Criteria Analysis of System Configurations

Melville‐Shreeve

Ward

Butler

2016

Water

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Academic research and technological innovation associated with rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems in the UK has seen a shift of emphasis in recent years. Traditional design approaches use whole life cost assessments that prioritise financial savings associated with the provision of an alternative water supply. However, researchers and practitioners are increasingly recognising broader benefits associated with rainwater reuse, such as stormwater attenuation benefits. This paper identifies and describes a set of novel RWH system configurations that have potential for deployment in UK houses. Conceptual schematics are provided to define these innovations alongside traditional configurations. Discussion of the drivers supporting these configurations illustrates the opportunities for RWH deployment in a wide range of settings. A quantitative multi criteria analysis was used to evaluate and score the configurations under a range of emerging criteria. The work identifies several RWH system configurations that can outperform traditional ones in terms of specified cost and benefits. Selection of a specific RWH technology is shown to be highly dependent on user priorities. It is proposed that the system configurations highlighted could enable RWH to be cost-effectively installed in a broad set of contexts that have experienced minimal exploitation to date.

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“…Beise (2004Beise ( : 1002 has described the "applicable lead market theory" to be "more an eclectic theory than a mono-causal model". Several scholars have conducted studies using this theory in areas as diverse as mobile telephony (Beise, 2004), next-generation automobiles (Beise and Rennings, 2004), energy production (Cleff et al, 2009), rainwater technology (Partzsch, 2009), coal-fired power plants (Rennings and Smidt, 2010), and policy formulation (Jänicke, 2005) to cite just a few examples. Government institutions and agencies in Europe, and especially Germany, too have applied his work and the model derived from it to develop policies (BMBF, 2002, EFI, 2008, European Commission, 2007.…”

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India - A Lead Market for Frugal Innovations? Extending the Lead Market Theory to Emerging Economies

Tiwari

Herstatt

2012

SSRN Journal

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India has emerged as a vibrant and versatile source for cost effective, "disruptive innovations" of various varieties. Price-sensitive consumers in a large and growing market keep inducing firms to apply "frugal engineering" for creating affordable products and services without compromising excessively on quality. Because, as The Economist asserts: "Frugal does not mean second-rate". Such innovations are characterized by high affordability, robustness, and "good enough" quality in a volume-driven market. Resource constraints motivate firms and entrepreneurs to think out-of-thebox. The trick lies in creating solutions that are able to circumvent given environmental constraints in a cost effective way. India's large and enormously young population faced with limited budgets, but well-endowed with high aspirations, provides an ideal experiment ground for many firms. Solutions created for the Indian market are often suitable for other developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that frequently face similar socio-economic conditions. In some instances they succeed even in developed country markets by enabling significant cost reductions. This emergence as a hub for "frugal innovations" possibly suggests a "lead market" role for India.On the other hand, lead markets, as understood today, are characterized by high per capita income, great customer sophistication and high quality infrastructure. Such assumptions imply that lead markets, almost by default, can only exist in economically developed countries because only they can finance the development effort. Using two anchor-cases of product innovations aimed at pricesensitive segments in India we generate preliminary evidence to challenge some of the core assumptions of the "lead market" theory and propose that lead markets can emerge in developing countries too because market attractiveness (e.g. volume of demand, export possibilities) and technological capabilities are able to offset many other deficiencies. The supposed absence of customer sophistication is channelized into a challenge for supplier-side sophistication to design cost effective, "good enough" solutions ("low-cost, thin-margin") that can meet the aspirations of consumers in a highly competitive market. In order to master this challenge companies need access to a competent and sufficiently large technical base with first-hand knowledge of the ground situation of targeted customer groups ("social capital").

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Smart regulation for water innovation – the case of decentralized rainwater technology

Cited by 100 publications

References 8 publications

Facilitation as a Governance Strategy: Unravelling Governments’ Facilitation Frames

Facilitation as a Governance Strategy: Unravelling Governments’ Facilitation Frames

Rainwater Harvesting Typologies for UK Houses: A Multi Criteria Analysis of System Configurations

India - A Lead Market for Frugal Innovations? Extending the Lead Market Theory to Emerging Economies

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