Sustainability-oriented innovation systems – managing the green transformation

Altenburg, Tilman; Pegels, Anna

doi:10.1080/2157930x.2012.664037

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“…Intermediating third parties (cf. van Lente et al, 2003;Altenburg and Pegels, 2012;Kivimaa, 2014) could ensure motivational and strategic alignment of different partners and coordinate the collaboration. Furthermore, these parties could help to overcome the (causality) dilemma where both, potential off-taker and investor, require a proof-of-concept and existing contracts by mediating between the different actors.…”

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Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Kant

2017

Front. Energy Res.

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The successful transition to a low-carbon economy hinges on innovative solutions and collaborative action on a global scale. Sustainable entrepreneurship is thereby recognized as a key driver in the creation and transformation of ecologically and socially sustainable economic systems. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this topic by understanding commercialization barriers for strong sustainability-oriented new technology ventures and to derive recommendations to overcome them. A qualitative multilevel approach is applied to identify barriers and drivers within the internal dynamic capabilities of the organization and within the organization's external stakeholders. A model of barriers has been developed based on semi-structured interviews with new carbon dioxide utilization ventures and associated industry players in Canada, the USA, and the European Economic Area. Resulting recommendations to facilitate the (re-)design of a dedicated support system are proposed on four levels: (a) actors, (b) resources, (c) institutional settings, and (d) the coordination of the support system.

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Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Kant

2017

Front. Energy Res.

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“…For example, while purchase subsidies for electric vehicles exist in France and China (Altenburg and Pegels, 2012), they do not exist in Germany. This means that the feed-in tariff creates its own lock-in and path dependency which have excluded other innovation paths for low carbon development in general and wind energy in specific.…”

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“…(Foxon, 2014:123). This makes switching to alternative technological systems very difficult (Altenburg and Pegels, 2012). …”

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The stuttering energy transition in Germany: Wind energy policy and feed-in tariff lock-in

Nordensvärd

Urban

2015

Energy Policy

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This article aims to examine whether the formulation of specific low carbon policy such as the feed-in tariff for wind energy in Germany can partly be a barrier to a comprehensive energy transition (Energiewende). Despite their short and medium-term success, these policies could create a long-term lock-in if they are formulated in a way that leads to a stagnation of systems innovation. The research finds that while the share of wind energy has increased rapidly over time, the feed-in-tariff and other low carbon policies and incentives have not been sufficient to achieve a socio-technical regime transition in Germany yet. We suggest that the German feed-in-tariff has incorporated wind energy (a nicheinnovation) and wind energy actors (pathway newcomers) into a slightly modified sociotechnical regime that is rather similar to the earlier 'fossil fuel dominant' socio-technical regime.

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“…Following Lundvall (1992) and Freeman (1995), Byrne et al (2012), in line with Altenburg and Pegels (2012), emphasised the systemic nature of innovation around low-carbon (or climate change mitigation) technologies, also in developing countries. Looking at innovation in general (that is, beyond climate change), Hekkert et al (2007) and Bergek et al (2008) developed a Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) framework to categorise the complexity around innovation systems and bring some order into the seemingly anarchic dynamics within innovation systems.…”

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Assessing climate change mitigation technology interventions by international institutions

Coninck

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2015

Climatic Change

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Accelerating the international use of climate mitigation technologies is key if efforts to curb climate change are to succeed, especially in developing countries, where weak domestic technological innovation systems constrain the uptake of climate change mitigation technologies. Several intergovernmental agencies have set up specific programmes to support the diffusion of climate mitigation technologies. Using a simplified technological innovation system-based framework, this paper aims to systematically review these programmes, with the dual aim of assessing their collective success in promoting technological innovation, and identifying opportunities for the newly formed UNFCCC Technology Mechanism. We conclude that, while all programmes reviewed have promoted technology transfer, they have given limited attention to innovation capabilities with users, government and universities. Functions that could be further developed include knowledge development, legitimation and market formation. These could be focal areas for the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism. We recommend that, in future programmes, part of the funding is dedicated to programmes doing research and development as well as capability development.

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Sustainability-oriented innovation systems – managing the green transformation

Cited by 127 publications

References 20 publications

Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

The stuttering energy transition in Germany: Wind energy policy and feed-in tariff lock-in

Assessing climate change mitigation technology interventions by international institutions

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