Innovation For A Low Carbon Economy

by Foxon, Timothy J.; Kohler, Jonathan; Oughton, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781847203823
• ISBN10: 1847203825
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy analyses the interplay of technological, institutional, market and management factors in the dynamics of energy systems. The book aims to inform national and international policies to promote low carbon innovation. Featuring chapters by leading international experts, this book explores how innovation in energy systems will provide a core contribution to achieving national and international energy policy goals, including energy security and long-term reductions in CO2 emissions. The book elaborates approaches to understanding innovation from different disciplinary perspectives and illustrates these through case studies of national and sectoral energy systems. These cover a range of technologies including photovoltaics, wind power, fuel cells, microgeneration, combined heat and power, and efficiency standards, for both energy and transport services. It contributes to greater mutual learning between approaches as international academics from economic, institutional and management backgrounds share and analyse their respective approaches, knowledge and insights. The explicitly multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach will appeal to academic researchers and postgraduate students interested in energy systems and policy. It will also be of interest to policymakers involved in promoting low carbon innovation, and strategic management thinkers in energy firms and consultancies.

Table of Contents

Innovation in energy systems: Learning from economic, institutional and management approaches	p. 1
A cybernetic perspective on technology learning	p. 15
Demand-pull energy technology policies, diffusion and improvements in California wind power	p. 47
Functions in innovation systems: A framework for analysing energy system dynamics and identifying goals for system-building activities by entrepreneurs and policymakers	p. 79
Firms, markets and the fuel cell technology innovation system in an international perspective	p. 112
On the dynamics of microgeneration diffusion in Germany and the UK	p. 142
Evolutionary innovation systems of low carbon electricity: Insights about institutional change and innovation in the cases of CHP and wind energy	p. 175
Market transformation: Innovation theory and practice	p. 203
Can car makers save the planet?	p. 230
Index	p. 267
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