Cross-National Complementarity of Technology Push, Demand Pull, and Manufacturing Push Policies: The Case of Photovoltaics
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T1 - Cross-National Complementarity of Technology Push, Demand Pull, and Manufacturing Push Policies
T2 - The Case of Photovoltaics
AU - Hansen, Erik G.
AU - Ludeke-Freund, Florian
AU - Quan, Xiaohong Iris
AU - West, Joel
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Researchers have debated the relative importance of technology push and demand pull policies in the adoption of environmental technologies. Here, we examine how internationally distributed technology push and demand pull policies interact to support the diffusion of a renewable energy technology. We analyze 40 years (1974-2013) of solar photovoltaic policies in three countries: USA, Germany, and China. We identify four phases of international policy interactions: in Phase 1 (1974-1990), the USA launched technology push policies; in Phase 2 (1991-2003), Germany pioneered demand pull policies; in Phase 3 (2004-2008), China responded to international market incentive programs with a scaling up of manufacturing; and in Phase 4 (2008-2013), Germany reduced whereas China increased demand policies. Our contributions are threefold: First, we demonstrate the importance of 'manufacturing push' alongside the standard technology push and demand pull factors; second, we show how global adoption was spurred by the complementarity of policy efforts across national boundaries, while considering the tradeoffs in climate change policy between increasing global environmental welfare and improving national economic development; third, we demonstrate three generic patterns of cross-national policy complementarity.
AB - Researchers have debated the relative importance of technology push and demand pull policies in the adoption of environmental technologies. Here, we examine how internationally distributed technology push and demand pull policies interact to support the diffusion of a renewable energy technology. We analyze 40 years (1974-2013) of solar photovoltaic policies in three countries: USA, Germany, and China. We identify four phases of international policy interactions: in Phase 1 (1974-1990), the USA launched technology push policies; in Phase 2 (1991-2003), Germany pioneered demand pull policies; in Phase 3 (2004-2008), China responded to international market incentive programs with a scaling up of manufacturing; and in Phase 4 (2008-2013), Germany reduced whereas China increased demand policies. Our contributions are threefold: First, we demonstrate the importance of 'manufacturing push' alongside the standard technology push and demand pull factors; second, we show how global adoption was spurred by the complementarity of policy efforts across national boundaries, while considering the tradeoffs in climate change policy between increasing global environmental welfare and improving national economic development; third, we demonstrate three generic patterns of cross-national policy complementarity.
KW - Demand pull and technology push
KW - energy policy
KW - energy transition
KW - environmental innovation
KW - Government
KW - Industries
KW - Investment
KW - Manufacturing
KW - Photovoltaic systems
KW - policy instruments
KW - renewable energy
KW - solar photovoltaic
KW - sustainability
KW - Technological innovation
KW - technology diffusion
KW - Energy research
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051008377&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2018.2833878
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2018.2833878
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85051008377
VL - 66
SP - 381
EP - 397
JO - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
SN - 0018-9391
IS - 3
M1 - 8424882
ER -