First of all, an attempt is made to classify each of the technologies examined using basic criteria which are of considerable importance for the rest of the analysis and significantly determine the priorities set in the subsequent analysis. These characteristics include (see Fig. 3.1): the regional scale of the markets, the predominant market form of the technology producers and the intensity of competition due to other technology options.
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Notes
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For brevity, where the use is not ambiguous we use the term ‘technology’ to refer to new energy conversion technologies or energy-related technologies at the useful energy level.
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The simultaneous application of the three approaches causes the interdependence of the results since the results of one approach are fed back into all other approaches.
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Please note that the technology life cycle also includes the diffusion phase.
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For further details, see Hinze and Schmoch (2004).
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So it was assumed that the articles were written about one year before their publication in order to achieve a reference equivalent to the priority year of patents.
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Where the meaning is unambiguous, we use the term component instead of innovation system component. Where ambiguity might occur we use technological component to denote a part of the technology under analysis and innovation system component to denote a part of the innovation system.
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In Germany, e.g. universities, the Max-Planck Society.
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In Germany, e.g. the Fraunhofer-Society, the Helmholtz-Society, AiF-Research Organizations.
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In case the reader is more comfortable with a single approach rather than three different ones, the innovation systems analysis can be seen as the overarching approach under which the energy-economic analysis and the technology life cycle analysis can be subsumed. As the technology itself is a tangible (or intangible) artefact, it constitutes a key component in the technological innovation system. The energy-economic analysis investigates current and future properties of the technology as one component of the innovation system. The technology life cycle also – from a different angle and with a different conceptual background – analyses the properties of the technology as a component of the innovation system. Both the life cycle analysis and the energy-economic analysis can be seen as part of the technology innovation system analysis.
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For an elaboration of system functions, see Hekkert, Suurs, Kuhlmann, and Smits, (2006): Functions of Innovation Systems: A new approach for analysing technological change; in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change (forthcoming).
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Jochem, E. (2009). The Conceptual Approach. In: Jochem, E. (eds) Improving the Efficiency of R&D and the Market Diffusion of Energy Technologies. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2154-3_3
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