Looking back at the future: Dynamics of collective expectations about photovoltaic technology in Germany & Spain

Topic Modeling Uncovers Shifts in Media Framing of the German Renewable Energy Act

“…The intense dynamics of the EEG have attracted considerable scientific interest. From the scientific literature on the German energy transition policy, 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 we emphasize some conclusions important for our findings: researchers agree that the German energy regime has shifted from a fossil-dominated system toward a renewable system. 11 , 20 , 21 This shift has mostly been incremental, based on small policy steps rather than a radical shift in policy, 22 , 23 but the nuclear phase-out in 2011 represents a landmark.…”

“… 36 Newspaper coverage that addresses specific renewable technologies has been scrutinized as well. 15 , 37 Rochyadi-Reetz and colleagues 38 provide an overview of international framing studies on renewable energy technologies and a comparative analysis in 11 countries. A content analysis of German newspaper coverage focusing on the evolution of coverage and the media framing of policy goals over time regarding the German EEG has not been conducted.…”

Niche Acceleration Driven by Expectation Dynamics Among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development

“…Our analysis started with coding using keywords from Table 1. These keywords cover the five dimensions for both niche and regime levels based on a selective literature review, which includes (Konrad, 2006;Truffer et al, 2008;Turnheim and Geels, 2013;Kriechbaum et al, 2018;Budde and Konrad, 2019). (Meijer et al, 2007) Coding led to two set of results: self-evaluated results and other stakeholder' evaluated results.…”

“…This case illustrates that it is crucial to measure the nature of actors' expectations across different levels so as to understand actors' strategies. Kriechbaum et al (2018) further elaborate on how these multi-level natures of expectations contribute to the divergent niche development of solar PV in Germany and Spain. Their analysis confirms that it is useful to unpack the interaction dynamics across three levels to understand niche development.…”

AI Ecosystems for Human Flourishing: The Recommendations

“…between the USA, Europe and China, which could be described as separate ecosystems (see the discussion of different purposes of AI use in Section 3.3 ). The differentiation by geography and jurisdiction could go further, with, for example, the German system being different from the Spanish one, as shown by Kriechgaum et al ( 2018 ) using the example of the innovation ecosystems surrounding photovoltaics. One can also differentiate further between AI ecosystems for different sectors or areas of application, such as autonomous transport, education, production and agriculture.…”