Technology transfer and cooperation for low carbon energy technology: Analysing 30 years of scholarship and proposing a research agenda
| Autor: | Kirchherr, J.W., Urban, Frauke, Dynamics of Innovation Systems, Innovation Studies |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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020209 energy
Public policy Wind 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Intellectual property 01 natural sciences Critical success factor 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Low carbon development Industrial organization Technology transfer 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Energy technology Scholarship Core (game theory) General Energy Solar PV Work (electrical) Sustainability transitions Business Hydropower Dams |
| Zdroj: | Energy Policy, 119, 600. Elsevier BV |
| ISSN: | 0301-4215 |
| Popis: | While North-South technology transfer and cooperation (NSTT) for low carbon energy technology has been implemented for decades, South-South technology transfer and cooperation (SSTT) and South-North technology transfer and cooperation (SNTT) have only recently emerged. Consequently, the body of literature on NSTT is mature, while the body on SSTT and SNTT is still in its infancy. This paper provides a meta-synthesis of the scholarly writings on NSTT, SSTT and SNTT from the past 30 years. We specifically discuss core drivers and inhibitors of technology transfer and cooperation, outcomes as well as outcome determinants. We find policies and practices for low carbon development to be the main driver, both pushed by governments and international aid programs, as well as by firms that are interested in expanding overseas. Inhibitors include a non-existent market in the host countries and the abundance of cheap fossil fuel resources that price out renewables. The literature is divided on whether intellectual property rights are inhibitors or drivers of technology transfer to the Global South. Outcomes of technology transfer and cooperation are mixed with approximately one-third of instances reported as successful technology transfer and another one-third reported as failures. Core key success factors were identified as suitable government policies as well as adequate capacities in the recipient country. This analysis is then followed by an introduction of the papers of the special issue 'South-South Technology Transfer and Cooperation for Low Carbon Energy Technologies’. Finally, a research agenda for future work on NSTT, SSTT and SNTT is proposed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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