Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation

Setting Priorities in Energy Innovation Policy: Lessons for the UK

The views expressed within this paper are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of the The overarching objective of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group is to determine and then seek to promote adoption of effective strategies for developing and deploying cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, primarily in three of the biggest energy-consuming natio...

Innovation surveys and innovation policy

Strategic policy to select suitable intermediaries for innovation to promote PV solar energy industry in China

Ever since its commitment to the Copenhagen Accord of 2009 to lower its carbon emissions by 2020 to a level that will be 40% below those of 2005, China has been aiming to develop its photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry. Because knowledge is a critical factor for obtaining a sustainable competitive advantage in a knowledge-intensive industry, it is essential to build up an interactive learni...

Industry Policy as Innovation Policy

Many innovation policy programs of both national and state governments in Australia are implicitly or explicitly directed at seeking to transform the industrial structure of the economies to which they are applied, so that some types of industries gain prevalence (i.e. grow or create jobs) relative to other types of industry. Queensland’s Smart Queensland: Smart State Strategy 20052015, for exa...

Framing Innovation Policy for Transformative Change: Innovation Policy 3.0