scholarly journals From fossil to low carbon: The evolution of global public energy innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Kelly Sims Gallagher ◽  
Zdenka Myslikova ◽  
Easwaran Narassimhan ◽  
Rishikesh Ram Bhandary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Innovation

scholarly journals Weaving an Innovation Network from the Middle Out: the Case of the Renewable Energy Ecosystem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tali Zohar ◽  
Yael Parag ◽  
Ofira Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Energy Innovation ◽  
Push And Pull

Abstract BackgroundRenewable energy (RE) systems are becoming a central component of the clean energy transition and often seen as the way to combat climate change. Their establishment requires innovation, investments, and deployment policies for emerging technologies. Governments around the world are increasingly trying to create and support the energy-tech and climate-tech innovation ecosystems in their attempt to promote an innovation-supporting environment. However, energy innovation policies are often aligned with the dichotomous notion of technology-push and market-pull, and overlook the social, political, and cultural contexts in which RE innovative technologies are embedded, and the multiple actors and interactions that are associated with their development. By combining the Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) and innovation literature, this paper argues that an innovation ecosystem could be weaved from the middle-out.MethodsThis paper analyses the case of Israel’s RE innovation ecosystem creation through the lens of the MOP and applies a socio-technical interpretation to the push and pull terminology. Process tracing methodology was applied to trace a sequence of events to determines whether an actor was pushed or pulled, the formation of a network of actors, and its evolvement to an energy innovation ecosystem from the middle-out. Data for the analysis was collected from interviews, policy papers, media articles and Governmental decisions.ResultsThe analysis demonstrates how middle actors push the implementation of RE technologies in Israel, and at the same time pull decision-makers and other middle actors to promote the low carbon transition. The push and pull forces and the interactions between actors lead to the engagement of new stakeholders in the innovation network, the adoption of more ambitious RE targets and supporting policies, and to the creation of an effective RE innovation ecosystem.ConclusionsThis paper uses the MOP as an analytical framework and the push and pull terminology to demonstrate how a middle actor initiates and develops an actor-network by interacting with other actors. As this network broadens, it forms an effective innovation ecosystem. Network of actors have the potential to lead change, provide innovative ideas, initiate research, encourage investments, create employment possibilities, and promote regional sustainable development.

How Do LCD Innovations Differ?

2016 ◽  
pp. 244-275
Author(s):  
Rainer Walz
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Energy Innovation ◽  
Low Carbon Development ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
Lock In ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Low Carbon Development (LCD) implies to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere and to foster inclusive development. This requires systemic innovations, which can lead to disruptive changes, and the build-up of capabilities to enhance the innovations. LCD offers opportunities to reduce energy costs and to export low-carbon solutions. Various specificities constitute a lock-in into the existing fossil fuel based energy system: technological specificities of grid based infrastructure systems, dependence on regulation to overcome market failures, and the political economy of the energy innovation system. There are also systemic reasons why decisions routines for energy related decisions adapt very slowly to new challenges. The empirical analysis indicates that there is considerable heterogeneity among the countries with regard to their starting positions to overcome the various obstacles and to build the comparative advantages which will enable them to supply the global markets with low carbon technologies.

scholarly journals A Review of Low-Carbon Transformation and Energy Innovation Issues in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liexun Yang ◽  
Peng Zhou ◽  
Ning Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Innovation
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