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Upscaling emerging niche technologies in sustainable energy: an international comparison of policy approaches

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  • Coenen, Lars

    (CIRCLE, Lund University)

  • Suurs , Roald

    (TNO Built Environment)

  • van Sandick , Emma

    (TNO Built Environment)

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To speed up the transformation to low-carbon energy systems, transition policy approaches highlight the importance of purposive experimentation with sustainable niche technologies. An important policy challenge that has followed from various ‘real’ transition experiments concerns the crucial issue of ‘upscaling’ or ‘aggregating’ the niche technologies towards broader and more widespread application in society. To address the question ‘which policy mix supports the upscaling of emergent niche technologies in a transition to sustainable energy systems?’ the paper adopts a comparative approach. Two successful cases where upscaling of emergent technology niches has taken place are contrasted with an unsuccesful fail case. The success cases entail the emergence and diffusion of bioenergy and biofuels in Sweden as well as windpower in Denmark whereas the fail case consists of biofuels in the Netherlands.

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  • Coenen, Lars & Suurs , Roald & van Sandick , Emma, 2011. "Upscaling emerging niche technologies in sustainable energy: an international comparison of policy approaches," Papers in Innovation Studies 2010/17, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2010_017
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    1. Gosens, Jorrit & Lu, Yonglong & Coenen , Lars, 2013. "Clean-tech Innovation in Emerging Economies: Transnational Dimensions in Technological Innovation System Formation," Papers in Innovation Studies 2013/10, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.

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    Keywords

    sustainability transitions; niche technologies; technological innovation systems;
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    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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