Why are old technologies persisted with after better alternatives
have been invented? This book examines this question, a central
concern of evolutionary economics, specifically focusing on
renewable energy technologies. The concept of path dependence is
used to analyse why and how technological development can become
locked-in to inefficient ways of doing things. This book shows how
lock-in can be avoided by the creation of new technological
pathways. The chapters focus on the comparatively recent
introduction of new wind turbine technologies for the generation of
carbon free electricity. This case study provides valuable lessons
in understanding the issues confronting inventors attempting to
commercialise their new ideas in the form of innovations in the
face of historically established conventional technologies. It is
also set within the critical debate on climate change and the need
to de-carbonise energy supplies in order to stop further man-made
deterioration in the global environment. This book was originally
published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.
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