Effectiveness of an ‘open innovation’ approach in renewable energy: Empirical evidence from a survey on solar and wind power

Lacerda, Juliana Subtil; Bergh, J.C.J.M. van den

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.109505

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“…In addition to these main variables, we identify four groups of variables based on the literature review (in line with the data provided by WBES), which represent the potential determinants of our output variables: value drivers (Gunawan et al, 2020) expressing the firm's commitment to environmental behaviour (e.g., by setting environmental targets), market pressure (Horbach et al, 2012) expressed by customers' voice for firms' environmental behaviour, environmental policy and regulations (Rennings, 2000), and OI instruments allowing the flow of internal and external (foreign) knowledge (Cagno et al, 2015; Prokop et al, 2021; Subtil Lacerda & van den Bergh, 2020). These are binary variables (1 indicates the answer is yes, 0 indicates the answer is no).…”

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“…The results further reveal that companies that complement internal R&D with inbound OI practices have a higher level of energy efficiency and a lower perception of barriers to efficiency improvements. Moreover, Subtil Lacerda and van den Bergh (2020) focus on the renewable energy sector and find that, for technology fields characterized by low technological turbulence and focused on incremental innovation, incentives to broaden knowledge sources (i.e., enhancing breadth) can be an effective means of improving innovative output whereas, for the high technological turbulence and more radical innovation, strengthening ties among a reduced number of diverse actors (depth) is likely to be more effective in fostering innovation.…”

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On the path to sustainable development: The nexus among owner gender diversity, energy management, and firms' innovation radicalness

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This research focuses on the part of sustainable development related to energy management and thus aims to find the missing piece in research on the role of owner gender diversity (OGD) in processes of energy management (EM) introduction and the creation of radical and incremental innovation. Employing the World Bank's Enterprise Survey 2019 data covering 4646 firms from 11 European countries, we confirm the hypothesis that OGD increases firms' chance to reach radical and incremental innovation. Contrary to the majority of prior studies, we reject the hypothesis that OGD increases firms' chance to introduce EM; rather, we empirically prove the positive effects of firms' value drivers and market pressure on EM. We also confirm the link between firms' introduction of EM and the creation of radical and incremental innovations. This study expands research into the gender diversity of the upper echelons, addressing recent calls to expand open innovation research into new research categories and identify the determinants of firms' introduction of EM.

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On the path to sustainable development: The nexus among owner gender diversity, energy management, and firms' innovation radicalness

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“…To be sure, using patents involves many well‐documented limitations. For example, all patents are not equally important, not all inventions are patentable, not all inventions are “innovation,” firms use alternative means to protect their intellectual property, and sometimes they patent strategically including by blocking the patents of other firms (Bessen, 2005; Harhoff et al, 1999; Subtil Lacerda & van den Bergh, 2020). In addition, due to different national laws governing patenting requirements and patent types, patents are not easily comparable across countries, and not all inventors file to protect their invention across multiple jurisdictions, for example, through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).…”

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Assessing learning in low carbon technologies: Toward a more comprehensive approach

Lewis

Nemet

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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With decades of experience developing and deploying low carbon technologies around the world, much has been learned. We assess six categories that represent the diversity of methodological approaches that have been used to study low carbon learning: (1) learning curves; (2) expert elicitations; (3) patent analysis; (4) engineering-based decomposition; (5) policy intervention studies; and (6) case studies. Based on a review of low carbon learning studies in these six areas, we summarize what we know about low carbon learning, and what we have yet to fully understand, including the methodological strengths and limitations of key studies conducted to date. We find that a more comprehensive understanding of low carbon learning is necessary and timely given the massive scale and short time horizon of the low carbon transition, and that there are real benefits to employing a comprehensive approach using multiple methods. We find a need for better data sets, and for studies of a more diverse set of technologies, as well as of interactions among technologies. In addition, studies should be more explicit about local context, with a particular need for additional focus on emerging and developing countries. We identify key topics that warrant further research, including technology specific learning methods; spatial distinctions and the local and global linkages that influence learning; and an expanded study of the cultural, social, environmental, and political factors that influence learning. Finally, we recommend more nuance in the design of policies directed at accelerating low carbon learning. This article is categorized under:The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Future of Global Energy K E Y W O R D S climate change, innovation, learning, low carbon technologies, methods 1 | INTRODUCTION Climate change necessitates the transition to a low carbon economy, presenting both challenges and opportunities. One main challenge is the scale of energy investment needed (estimated at between 1.6 and 3.8 trillion USD annually between 2016 and 2050) (Climate Policy Initiative, 2019; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2018), along with the need to overcome technological lock in and path dependency, all in a relatively short time horizon given looming climate disasters. However, many opportunities lie in the commercialization of low carbon energy

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“…[6][7][8] In this point, renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy offer more environmental ways to produce energy in the form of electricity. [9][10][11] However, discontinuing the property of these sources is a crucial problem to use them when they are needed. Electrochemical energy storage technologies can solve this problem by storage of the produced energy in chemical form to use it again in an effective way.…”

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“…Although most of the demanded energy was produced by classical energy sources such as coal, petroleum, etc, their harmful effects on the ecosystem and environment become an important problem for the earth 6‐8 . In this point, renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy offer more environmental ways to produce energy in the form of electricity 9‐11 . However, discontinuing the property of these sources is a crucial problem to use them when they are needed.…”

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A novel electrolyte additive for gel type valve regulated lead acid batteries: Sulfur doped graphene oxide

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Intl J of Energy Research

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Effectiveness of an ‘open innovation’ approach in renewable energy: Empirical evidence from a survey on solar and wind power

Cited by 38 publications

References 154 publications

On the path to sustainable development: The nexus among owner gender diversity, energy management, and firms' innovation radicalness

On the path to sustainable development: The nexus among owner gender diversity, energy management, and firms' innovation radicalness

Assessing learning in low carbon technologies: Toward a more comprehensive approach

A novel electrolyte additive for gel type valve regulated lead acid batteries: Sulfur doped graphene oxide

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