IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijgeni/v33y2010i3-4p221-238.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Establishment of a European energy policy think-tank: necessity or luxury?

Author

Listed:
  • H. Doukas
  • A. Flamos
  • C. Karakosta
  • J. Psarras

Abstract

A new research agenda and ground breaking approaches should be adopted in order to overcome energy system inertia and pass through the current carbon constrained economy to new prosperous and more sustainable energy development paths. The wide consensus of the energy sector community (business, academic, policy, etc.) is considered a necessity for the success of such a challenging undertake. In this respect, the creation and operation of a European strategic energy think-tank (EU-SENT²) could play a catalytic role. This paper following an overview of EU energy policy critical issues presents the principles of the EU-SENT² and compares four main think-tank typologies. The paper focuses on 'domains of think-tank's independence' – funding, agenda setting, ideology and research – on the mission and core values of a European energy think-tank. After discussing on the applicability of alternative typologies for a European energy think-tank, its management structure and basic principals and procedures are described.

Suggested Citation

  • H. Doukas & A. Flamos & C. Karakosta & J. Psarras, 2010. "Establishment of a European energy policy think-tank: necessity or luxury?," International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 33(3/4), pages 221-238.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:33:y:2010:i:3/4:p:221-238
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=36958
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Charikleia Karakosta & Alexandros Flamos, 2016. "Managing Climate Policy Information Facilitating Knowledge Transfer to Policy Makers," Energies, MDPI, vol. 9(6), pages 1-16, June.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:33:y:2010:i:3/4:p:221-238. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=13 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.