How to increase technology transfers to developing countries: a synthesis of the evidence

Pueyo, Ana; Mendiluce, María; Naranjo, María Sanchez; Lumbreras, Julio

doi:10.1080/14693062.2011.605588

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“…Even if attention is given to developing countries in general, this stems from evidence mostly originating from emerging economies, particularly China and India (Hanni et al, 2011;Pueyo et al, 2012), and in the case of CDM, also Brazil and Mexico (Dechezleprêtre et al, 2008(Dechezleprêtre et al, , 2009). For example, while developing countries have attracted substantial greenfield investments in renewable energy manufacturing, the overwhelming majority has gone to a few emerging economies (Hanni et al, 2011;UNCTAD, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

The role of international business in clean technology transfer and development

Kolk

2013

Climate Policy

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While research has generated useful very insights, usually at the macro level, regarding the multifaceted nature of environmental innovation and regulation, the characteristics and drivers peculiar to international companies have remained underexposed in the policy-related literature on clean technology transfer and development. This article aims to help open the 'black box' of business, also as input for future policy-making, by discussing aspects that influence corporate responses: sectorspecific and company-specific peculiarities as well as those related to country contexts (both origin countries and host countries to companies). Most of the climate-related investments in 'developing' countries turn out to have been geared to a few emerging economies, generally involving established technologies with limited transfer, and a major role for developed-country utilities, particularly from Europe. Despite these limitations, there is a base with experience being built up, and a potential for extension to lesser-developed areas, but that requires market co-creation by joint business and governmental efforts. As viable business models are largely lacking, the article suggests three main modalities, ranging from fully commercial to primarily publicly funded, involving different types of actors and countries. Gearing policies more toward corporate realities and reaping the international momentum of sustainable energy might also further climate goals.

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The role of international business in clean technology transfer and development

Kolk

2013

Climate Policy

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“…Equally fundamentally, it has been argued that current approaches to technology transfer are constrained by a lack of engagement with the role of the private sector, an assumption that technology primarily flows from countries in the 'North' to those in the 'South', and a limited evaluation of the impacts of the transfer of technology as 'hardware' rather than 'software' (Pueyo et al 2012;Ockwell and Mallett 2012) where there has been a lack of attention to the institutional and social dimensions of innovation (De Coninck and Sagar 2014: 2-3). Counter to the dominant narrative within international climate policy, transition studies suggest that innovation is an ongoing processes and that while finance and technology are necessary conditions for transition, they are far from sufficient (Kern 2011).…”

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Landscape for change? International climate policy and energy transitions: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

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Bulkeley

2016

Climate Policy

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A deep and rapid de-carbonisation of the world's energy systems is essential to meeting international goals for addressing climate change. But what is the role of the climate regime in facilitating such transitions? How do assumptions built into existing climate policy about how, when, why and for whom energy transitions are unfolding relate to practice on the ground?How far do they help or hinder the critical task of supporting and orchestrating society-wide efforts to reduce fossil fuel use? In this paper, we examine how core assumptions concerning the role of the nation state, of carbon markets and finance, and of technology built into international climate policy are being challenged by the realities of how transitions in the energy systems are unfolding. Drawing on the critical region of Sub-Saharan Africa and empirical research in Mozambique and South Africa, we examine the challenges facing energy transitions and the potential for international climate policy to foster new trajectories towards decarbonisation. Policy RelevanceThe international regime for climate policy has been in place for some twenty years. Despite significant changes in the landscape of energy systems and drivers of global GHG emissions over this time, the core principles and tools remain relatively stable -national governments, carbon markets, project-based climate finance and the transfer of technological hardware.Given the diversity of actors and drivers and the limited direct reach and influence of international climate policy, however, there is an urgent need to consider how the climate regime can best support the embryonic transitions in the provision of energy, transport, industry, agriculture and housing that are slowly taking form around the world. To do this effectively, we have argued, requires a more nuanced understanding of the role of state in governing transitions beyond notions of a cohesive state serving as rule-enforcer and transition manager. It also requires a broader view of technology, not just as hardware that is transferred, but as a set of practices and networks of expertise and enabling actors. And while markets have an important role to play as vehicles for achieving broader ends, they are not an end in themselves. Finally on finance, while acknowledging the important role of climate aid, often as a multiplier or facilitator of more ambitious private, flows, it is critical to differentiate between the types of finance required for different transitions, some of which will be counted 3 under the climate regime and directed by it, but the majority of which will not. In sum, the (low) carbon economy is being built in ways and in numerous sites that the climate regime needs to be cognisant of and engage with productively, and this may require fundamental reconsideration of the building blocks of the international climate regime.

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“…However, high upfront costs remain a critical barrier for large-scale investments in clean technologies, especially in developing countries (IPCC, 2012;Schmidt, 2014). How to accelerate the development and transfer of clean technologies is, therefore, emerging as a central issue in the international climate policy negotiations (Ockwell and Mallett, 2012;Pueyo et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 98%