Ebook: The Economic Dynamics of Fuel Cell Technologies
- Tags: R & D/Technology Policy, Energy Policy Economics and Management, Energy Technology, International Economics
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and organisational arrangements designed to promote their development. The costs, risks and economic stakes of fuel cell technologies require both a sustained involvement from public entities and the setting up of innovation networks with a large variety of heterogeneous actors. This context corresponds to a new space for technological competition located at the intersection between firms, networks and national/regional systems of innovation. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of this cooperation/competition phenomenon through different theoretical and empirical investigations.
Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and organisational arrangements designed to promote their development. The costs, risks and economic stakes of fuel cell technologies require both a sustained involvement from public entities and the setting up of innovation networks with a large variety of heterogeneous actors. This context corresponds to a new space for technological competition located at the intersection between firms, networks and national/regional systems of innovation. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of this cooperation/competition phenomenon through different theoretical and empirical investigations.
Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and organisational arrangements designed to promote their development. The costs, risks and economic stakes of fuel cell technologies require both a sustained involvement from public entities and the setting up of innovation networks with a large variety of heterogeneous actors. This context corresponds to a new space for technological competition located at the intersection between firms, networks and national/regional systems of innovation. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of this cooperation/competition phenomenon through different theoretical and empirical investigations.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction: the economic dynamics of fuel cell technologies....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A state-of-the-art of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies: diffusion perspectives and barriers....Pages 23-42
The future of fuel cells in a long term inter-technology competition framework....Pages 43-78
Rationales for co-operation between firms and States within an emerging radical innovation....Pages 79-113
Potential economic impacts of fuel cell technologies....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles and the US DoE Transportation Fuel Cells Programme....Pages 133-158
Fuel cells in Canada: from entrepreneurship to innovation clustering....Pages 159-186
The Japanese R&D system in the field of fuel cell vehicles....Pages 187-206
Fuel cell R&D within the European Framework Programmes....Pages 207-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-237
Due to their environmental and efficiency characteristics fuel cells are promising technological solutions for many energy related applications (stationary power generation, vehicle propulsion, portable equipment). This book describes the economic dynamics of fuel cells by analyzing their diffusion perspectives as well as the strategic and organisational arrangements designed to promote their development. The costs, risks and economic stakes of fuel cell technologies require both a sustained involvement from public entities and the setting up of innovation networks with a large variety of heterogeneous actors. This context corresponds to a new space for technological competition located at the intersection between firms, networks and national/regional systems of innovation. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of this cooperation/competition phenomenon through different theoretical and empirical investigations.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction: the economic dynamics of fuel cell technologies....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
A state-of-the-art of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies: diffusion perspectives and barriers....Pages 23-42
The future of fuel cells in a long term inter-technology competition framework....Pages 43-78
Rationales for co-operation between firms and States within an emerging radical innovation....Pages 79-113
Potential economic impacts of fuel cell technologies....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles and the US DoE Transportation Fuel Cells Programme....Pages 133-158
Fuel cells in Canada: from entrepreneurship to innovation clustering....Pages 159-186
The Japanese R&D system in the field of fuel cell vehicles....Pages 187-206
Fuel cell R&D within the European Framework Programmes....Pages 207-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-237
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