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Energy Technology Innovation
Learning from Historical Successes and Failures

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Arnulf Grübler, Charlie Wilson, Sabine Fuss, David McCollum, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, Gregory F. Nemet, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Lena Nejj, Per Dannemand Andersen, Daniel M. Kammen, Arne Jacobsen, Laura Díaz Anadon, Dustin Meyer, Lynn Mytelka, Rich Press, Evandro Luíz Dall'Oglio, Paolo Texeira de Sousa, Jr, Ruud Kempener, Anastasia O'Rourke, Kejun Jiang
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  • Date Published: March 2018
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108446006
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  • Energy technology innovation - improving how we produce and use energy - is critical for a transition towards sustainability. This book presents a rich set of twenty case studies of energy technology innovation embedded within a unifying conceptual framework. It provides insights into why some innovation efforts have been more successful than others, and draws important policy conclusions. The case studies cover a wide range of energy technologies, ranging from energy supply to energy end use, from successes to failures and from industrialized, emerging and developing economies. The case studies are presented by an international group of eminent scholars under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA), whose main volume was published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Energy Technology Innovation presents new data, new concepts and novel analytical and policy perspectives. It will be invaluable for researchers, policy makers, economists, industrial innovators and entrepreneurs in the field of energy technology.

    • Includes twenty case studies of energy technology innovation that contain new data and independent analysis from leading experts
    • Contains a novel, integrative conceptual framework which enables robust and consistent comparisons across case studies
    • Provides guidelines for innovation and technology policy
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    'It is an ambitious endeavor to understand and provide explanations for why and how successes and failures occur in projects related to energy technology innovation, but the editors (and the authors) do indeed reach their goal. For this reason, this might be the best book written to date treating the subject of energy technology innovation … [it] is an excellent read and the editors have published a highly reader-friendly, well-structured book.' Energy Research and Social Science

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    • Date Published: March 2018
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108446006
    • length: 400 pages
    • dimensions: 250 x 180 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.79kg
    • contains: 44 b/w illus. 48 colour illus. 49 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Introduction:
    1. Energy technology innovation Charlie Wilson and Arnulf Grübler
    2. The energy technology innovation system Charlie Wilson and Arnulf Grübler
    3. Historical case studies of energy technology innovation Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson
    Part II. Patterns and Linkages in the Energy Technology Innovation System:
    4. Grand designs: historical patterns and future scenarios of energy technological change Arnulf Grübler
    5. Historical diffusion and growth of energy technologies Charlie Wilson
    6. Input, output and outcome metrics for assessing energy technology innovation Charlie Wilson
    7. Technology portfolios: modeling technological uncertainty and innovation risks Arnulf Grübler, Sabine Fuss, David McCollum, Volker Krey and Keywan Riahi
    Part III. Knowledge in the Energy Technology Innovation System:
    8. Solar water heater innovation in the United States, China and Europe Gregory F. Nemet
    9. Heat pumps: a comparative assessment of innovation and diffusion policies in Sweden and Switzerland Bernadett Kiss, Lena Nejj and Martin Jakob
    10. Sources and consequences of knowledge depreciation Arnulf Grübler and Gregory F. Nemet
    11. The French pressurized water reactor program Arnulf Grübler
    Part IV. Adoption and Use in the Energy Technology Innovation System:
    12. Technological improvements of solar thermal electricity in the United States and the role of public policy Gregory F. Nemet
    13. Automobile fuel efficiency standards Gregory F. Nemet
    14. Hybrid cars: development and deployment in Japan, the United States and China Kelly Sims Gallagher
    15. Solar photovoltaics: multiple drivers of technological improvement Gregory F. Nemet
    Part V. Actors and Institutions in the Energy Technology System:
    16. A comparative assessment of wind turbine innovation and diffusion policies Lena Nejj and Per Dannemand Andersen
    17. The role of standards: the Japanese top runner program for end-use efficiency Osamu Kimura
    18. Solar innovation and market feedback: solar photovoltaics in rural Kenya Daniel M. Kammen and Arne Jacobsen
    19. The US synthetic fuels corporation: policy consistency, flexibility and the long-term consequences of perceived failures Laura Díaz Anadon and Gregory F. Nemet
    Part VI. Resources in the Energy Technology Innovation System:
    20. Brazilian ethanol: unpacking a success story of energy technology innovation Dustin Meyer, Lynn Mytelka, Rich Press, Evandro Luíz Dall'Oglio, Paulo Texeira de Sousa, Jr and Arnulf Grübler
    21. Global R&D, market formation and diffusion investments in energy technology innovation Arnulf Grübler, Laura Díaz Anadon, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Ruud Kempener, Anastasia O'Rourke and Charlie Wilson
    22. Energy RD&D investments in the major emerging economies and the United States Ruud Kempener, Laura Díaz Anadon, Kelly Sims Gallagher and Kejun Jiang
    23. A comparative analysis of annual market investments in energy supply and end-use technologies Charlie Wilson and Arnulf Grübler
    Part VII. Conclusions:
    24. Lessons learnt from the energy technology innovation system Charlie Wilson and Arnulf Grübler
    25. Policies for energy technology innovation Arnulf Grübler and Charlie Wilson.

  • Editors

    Arnulf Grubler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
    Arnulf Grubler is a world leading scholar on the history of energy systems and on technological change and innovation policy. He is Acting Program Leader of the Transitions to New Technologies Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, and Professor in the field of Energy and Technology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He has been serving as lead and contributing author and review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1996. He has authored or edited several books, including Technology and Global Change (Cambridge, 1998) and Technological Change and the Environment (with N. Nakicenovic and W. D. Nordhaus, 2002). He is also a convening lead author of three chapters in the Global Energy Assessment (Cambridge, 2012).

    Charlie Wilson, University of East Anglia
    Charlie Wilson is a researcher with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a lecturer in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He is a scholar on innovation studies and on the history of technological change in energy systems. His current research focuses on both historical and future technology diffusion dynamics, and the adoption of energy-efficient and smart home technologies. Previously he has held positions with the London School of Economics and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. He is also a lead author of two chapters in the Global Energy Assessment (Cambridge, 2012).

    Contributors

    Arnulf Grübler, Charlie Wilson, Sabine Fuss, David McCollum, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, Gregory F. Nemet, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Lena Nejj, Per Dannemand Andersen, Daniel M. Kammen, Arne Jacobsen, Laura Díaz Anadon, Dustin Meyer, Lynn Mytelka, Rich Press, Evandro Luíz Dall'Oglio, Paolo Texeira de Sousa, Jr, Ruud Kempener, Anastasia O'Rourke, Kejun Jiang

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