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| Title: | | Time strategies in environmental innovation policy: the case of the mobile fuel cell and hydrogen infrastructure  |
| Authors: | | Sartorius, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper sustainability and innovation S4/2007 |
| Abstract: | | Although fundamental innovations can make especially important contributions to the environmental soundness of economic progress, they are often impeded by path dependency and lock-in on the part of established technologies. Because the intensity of the latter effect changes in time, it is possible to identify and strategically use windows of opportunity - periods in which successful transition is greatly facilitated. In the case of the mobile fuel cell, economies of scale, learning and network effects are among the most important techno-economic determinants of such a window. Other more political determinants are political guidance and supranational agreements. All effects were combined to form a time strategy that allows innovation policy to effectively push the new technology at the lowest possible cost for the economy. |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:0011-n-661569 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers "Sustainability and Innovation", Fraunhofer ISI
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