Understanding the long-term patterns of innovation in energy technologies is crucial to informing public policy … planning in the context of climate change. This paper analyzes which of two common models of innovation over the technology … life-cycle – the product-process innovation shift observed for mass-produced goods or the system-component shift observed …

The energy industry is facing substantial challenges that require innovation to be fostered. Nevertheless, levels of R …&D investment and innovation remain quite low in comparison with other sectors. In this paper we analyse the main drivers of R …&D investment and obstacles to innovation in the energy industry. We examine, firstly, whether the stated R&D objectives pursued by …

technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained … the mechanism that underlies the slow progress of energy technological innovation. We show that in decentralized market …

studies which highlight the systemic nature of innovation, this paper argues that a radical technological change needs an … into account the systemic interdependencies between innovation policies and the supporting institutions. European and … successes and failures. The creation of a new regulatory body (the Office for Innovation and Climate Change) with the task of …

The energy industry is facing substantial challenges that require innovation to be fostered. Nevertheless, levels of R …&D investment and innovation remain quite low in comparison with other sectors. In this paper we analyse the main drivers of R …&D investment and obstacles to innovation in the energy industry. We examine, firstly, whether the stated R&D objectives pursued by …