Diffusion as time-dependent result of technological evolution, competition, and policies: the case of cleaner iron and steel technologies

Nill, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2007.10.004

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“…But there are other factors that might influence the diffusion of cleaner technologies. For example, firms confronting more heterogeneous, hostile and dynamic markets can be expected to adopt branding and to make efforts to entice consumers to use and gain social legitimacy from more environmentally friendly products [68,61,69].…”

Section: Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Factors mentioned in the literature explaining the capacity of a sector to change include the following. At a high level of aggregation there is dominance of specific technological paradigms and regimes bringing systemic technological path dependency [68]. The cost of replacing a complete production process in sectors, such as iron and steel, cement, and pulp and paper, is extremely high.…”

Section: Technological Opportunities and Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

Montalvo

2008

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Marketsmentioning

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Section: Technological Opportunities and Capabilitiesmentioning

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General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

Montalvo

2008

Journal of Cleaner Production

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137

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“…The diffusion of technology innovations in the steel industry has been studied quite intensively [24]. There are also some diffusion studies on the electric arc furnace [25][26][27].…”

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Where Diffusion of Clean Technologies and Barriers to Innovation Clash: Application to the Global Diffusion of the Electrical Arc Furnace

Moya

2017

Energies

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This paper analyses the role of barriers preventing the worldwide take-up of a clean technology: the electrical arc furnace. It also identifies which barriers affect a parameter that summarises the combined effect of all of them. The first step, determination of the combined effect of the barriers, is carried out using a novel approach to model the diffusion of innovations. This new approach is composed only by terms that account for the driver of innovations and the parameter that summarises the effect of barriers. The objective quantification of the effect of barriers in the diffusion of innovations opens up new opportunities for designing policies to overcome the barriers identified as the most relevant, for identifying the effect of existing policies, for relating innovation indicators with those barriers or for better incorporating the effect of barriers in bottom-up models that forecast the technological evolution of the economy.

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“…The diffusion of electric arc furnaces (EAF) in the steel industry has been studied quite intensively [34][35][36][37]. Moreover, Crompton [35] is also focused on the Japanese steel industry.…”

Section: Application To the Case Of The Diffusion Of An Energy Efficimentioning

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A Natural Analogy to the Diffusion of Energy-Efficient Technologies

Moya

2016

Energies

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Abstract:A new mathematical approach to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies is presented using the diffusion of natural processes as an analogy. This approach is applied to the diffusion of the electric arc furnace in Japan. The main advantage offered by the new approach is the incorporation of an average effect of barriers to, and support measures for, innovation. This approach also incorporates some of the parameters influencing the cost-effectiveness of the investment in the new technology as the main driver for adopting the innovation. The straightforward equivalence between natural phenomena and the diffusion of innovation requires the conceptual abstraction of setting a dimension (and defining) the medium in which the diffusion takes place. This new approach opens new research paths to analysing under what circumstances innovations can take-off, the effect of barriers in the diffusion of energy efficient technologies, or how the diffusion process is incorporated in energy-system models.

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Diffusion as time-dependent result of technological evolution, competition, and policies: the case of cleaner iron and steel technologies

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

Where Diffusion of Clean Technologies and Barriers to Innovation Clash: Application to the Global Diffusion of the Electrical Arc Furnace

A Natural Analogy to the Diffusion of Energy-Efficient Technologies

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