Energy Technology Innovation

Learning from Historical Successes and Failures

Arnulf Grubler editor Charlie Wilson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Dec '13

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An edited volume on factors determining success or failure of energy technology innovation, for researchers and policy makers.

Energy technology innovation - improving how we produce and use energy - is critical for a transition towards sustainability. This book presents cutting-edge knowledge, novel concepts, new data and independent analysis and synthesis written by an international team of leading scholars of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA), making it highly policy relevant and authoritative.Energy technology innovation - improving how we produce and use energy - is critical for a transition towards sustainability. This book presents a rich set of twenty case studies of energy technology innovation embedded within a unifying conceptual framework. It provides insights into why some innovation efforts have been more successful than others, and draws important policy conclusions. The case studies cover a wide range of energy technologies, ranging from energy supply to energy end use, from successes to failures and from industrialized, emerging and developing economies. The case studies are presented by an international group of eminent scholars under the auspices of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA), whose main volume was published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Energy Technology Innovation presents new data, new concepts and novel analytical and policy perspectives. It will be invaluable for researchers, policy makers, economists, industrial innovators and entrepreneurs in the field of energy technology.

'It is an ambitious endeavor to understand and provide explanations for why and how successes and failures occur in projects related to energy technology innovation, but the editors (and the authors) do indeed reach their goal. For this reason, this might be the best book written to date treating the subject of energy technology innovation … [it] is an excellent read and the editors have published a highly reader-friendly, well-structured book.' Energy Research and Social Science

ISBN: 9781107023222

Dimensions: 260mm x 182mm x 23mm

Weight: 1010g

400 pages