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The Evolution of the Wind Industry and the Rise of Chinese Firms: From Industrial Policies to Global Innovation Networks

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  • Pedro Campos Silva
  • Britta Klagge

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Powered by a growing environmental awareness and the perception of ending fossil-based energy sources, wind energy has evolved as a reliable, mature and increasingly price-competitive alternative to fossil and nuclear energy sources. Along with incremental technological progress, the wind industry, i.e. the development and manufacturing of wind turbines, has developed very dynamically both with respect to organization and location. Originating mainly in small and medium-sized enterprises in a core region of Northern Europe, the wind industry is now a global industry with an increasing significance of Chinese turbine manufacturers. Informed by evolutionary thinking and recent discussions on the concept of path dependence, we will trace this organizational change and geographical shift over time and space. We will show that the development of the wind industry is an example of on-path evolution in which the accumulation of small and incremental change has led to fundamentally new structures. The main drivers of this development have been politics and various types of public policies as well as, more recently, the globalization of knowledge production in global innovation networks--thus illustrating the need to better integrate the role of the state and of institutions at multiple levels into evolutionary thinking.

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  • Pedro Campos Silva & Britta Klagge, 2013. "The Evolution of the Wind Industry and the Rise of Chinese Firms: From Industrial Policies to Global Innovation Networks," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(9), pages 1341-1356, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:21:y:2013:i:9:p:1341-1356
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.756203
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    1. Hansen, Teis & Klitkou, Antje & Borup, Mads & Scordato, Lisa & Wessberg, Nina, 2017. "Path creation in Nordic energy and road transport systems – The role of technological characteristics," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 551-562.
    2. Wei Gao & Daojuan Wang, 2021. "Will Increasing Government Subsidies Promote Open Innovation? A Simulation Analysis of China’s Wind Power Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-20, December.
    3. Egor V. Dudukalov & Natalia D. Rodionova & Yana E. Sivakova & Elena Vyugova & Irina V. Cheryomushkina & Elena G. Popkova, 2016. "Global Innovational Networks: Sense and Role in Development of Global Economy," Contemporary Economics, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw., vol. 10(4), December.
    4. Danny MacKinnon & Stuart Dawley & Markus Steen & Max-Peter Menzel & Asbjørn Karlsen & Pascal Sommer & Gard Hopsdal Hansen & Håkon Endresen Normann, 2018. "Path creation, global production networks and regional development: a comparative international analysis of the offshore wind sector," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1810, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Feb 2018.

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