"The solar photovoltaic sector is moving forward very fast, both in terms of its own technological advancement and its standing among global renewable energy technologies. Rapid increases in solar cell efficiencies, fast technical change in solar batteries and solar glass, and economies of scale...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Some key points of the solar photovoltaic sector -- 3. Sector evolution under innovation cascade -- 4. The catch-up of the Chinese solar pv sector -- 5. Anchored clusters: the rise and fall of solar pv -- 6. Star scientists in pv technology and the limits of...