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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.
Edited by Timothy J. Foxon, Professor of Sustainability Transitions (SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, The Sussex Energy Group), University of Sussex, UK, Jonathan Köhler, Senior Scientist, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany and Christine Oughton, Professor of Economics and Management, University of Bolzano, Italy
Contents:PrefaceForeword1. Innovation in Energy Systems: Learning from Economic, Institutional and Management Approaches Timothy Foxon, Jonathan Köhler and Karsten Neuhoff2. A Cybernetic Perspective on Technology Learning Clas-Otto Wene3. Demand-pull Energy Technology Policies, Diffusion and Improvements in California Wind PowerGregory Nemet4. Functions in Innovation Systems: A Framework for Analysing Energy System Dynamics and Identifying Goals for System-building Activities by Entrepreneurs and PolicymakersAnna Bergek, Marko Hekkert and Staffan Jacobsson5. Firms, Markets and the Fuel Cell Technology Innovation System in an International PerspectiveChris Hendry, James Brown and Paul Harborne6. On the Dynamics of Microgeneration Diffusion in Germany and the UKBarbara Praetorius, Raphael Sauter and Jim Watson7. Evolutionary Innovation Systems of Low Carbon Electricity: Insights about Institutional Change and Innovation in the Cases of CHP and Wind Energy Marianne van der Steen, John Groenewegen, Martijn Jonker, Rolf Künneke and Eeke Mast8. Market Transformation: Innovation Theory and PracticeMark Hinnells and Brenda Boardman9. Can Car Makers Save the Planet?Jonathan Köhler, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Jonathan Michie and Christine OughtonIndex