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Making carbon-fibre composite ferries a competitive alternative: the institutional challenges

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  • Mette Alberg Mosgaard
  • Henrik Riisgaard
  • Søren Kerndrup

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Public policies and governmental structures are expected to provide incentives for a sustainable development, but some structures are developed for different purposes and instead create barriers to new innovations. In the case of small displacement island ferries in European waters, the institutional settings favour less sustainable solutions, namely steel designs, although lighter alternatives in carbon-fibre composites are available. Network collaboration can be seen as a method for actors to overcome barriers to the development of a new technology. This paper shows how a number of small actors in a network develop capabilities to overcome institutional barriers in the ferry sector in order to get the eco-innovations on the market. The analysis shows that the network changes the institutional setting for the new technology in a manner in which the individual actors would not be able to change it themselves.

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  • Mette Alberg Mosgaard & Henrik Riisgaard & Søren Kerndrup, 2014. "Making carbon-fibre composite ferries a competitive alternative: the institutional challenges," International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(3), pages 290-310.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisde:v:8:y:2014:i:3:p:290-310
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