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Technology Acquisition and Innovation in the Developing World: Wind Turbine Development... - 0 views

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    "Although China and India rely on coal to fuel most of their electricity generation, both countries are also home to burgeoning wind power industries. India currently leads the developing world in manufacturing utility-scale wind turbines, and China is close behind. This study examines the technology development strategies that have been pursued by the companies Suzlon and Goldwind, India and China's leading wind turbine manufacturers. While the institutional and other barriers present in large, developing countries such as China and India certainly challenge any simplistic notions of energy leapfrogging, an examination of wind turbine development in these countries has shown that substantial technical advances are possible in a relatively short time. While both Suzlon and Goldwind pursued similar licensing arrangements to acquire basic technical knowledge, Goldwind's technology development model lacks Suzlon's network of strategically positioned global subsidiaries that contribute to its base of industry knowledge and technical capacity. This examination of how two leading developing-country firms have acquired and assimilated advanced technologies provides crucial insights into facilitating international technology transfers, which will be an important component of any technological leapfrogging strategy to achieve lower greenhouse gas emissions in the developing world. "
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  • Nevertheless, India and China are both home to firms among the global top-10 leading wind turbine manufacturing companies. India currently leads the developing world in the manufacturing of utility-scale (multikilowatt) wind turbines, and China is close behind. Initiatives by domestic firms, supported by national policies to promote renewable energy development, are at the core of wind power innovation in both countries. This study examines the technology development strategies pursued by Suzlon and Goldwind, respectively India’s and China’s leading wind turbine manufacturers. It examines how these companies acquired the technological know-how and intellectual property rights associated with their respective wind turbine designs; how the domestic and international contexts in which these companies operate shaped their technology development strategies; and whether differences in their respective technology development strategies contributed to differences in the performance of the companies in the marketplace.
  • Energy leapfrogging has been described as a strategy for developing countries to shift away from an energy development path that relies on traditional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, and onto a new path that incorporates the broad utilization of advanced energy technologies—generally those that have been developed within more industrially advanced countries. As a means of climate change mitigation, observers have argued that developing countries need not adopt the dirty technologies of the past—rather, they can “leapfrog” over them, opting instead for modern, clean technologies as an integral part of capacity additions (Goldemberg 1998).
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Renewable energy options in developing countries - 0 views

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  • In 2009 the world energy consumption was 11.3 billion tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). Energy consumption in industrialized countries has basically been stable in the last 10 years, but in the rest of the world it has been growing at approximately 5% per year. At this rate and based on present technologies, the world’s annual energy consumption could reach 20 billion toe by the year 2020.
  • Fortunately, this can be safely achieved by using a wide variety of renewable sources, some of which, such as hydropower and biomass, are already well-developed. Most developing countries are located in tropical areas where the existence of rivers and rain-fed, arable land provide the conditions for these energy sectors to flourish. While competition with food production and multiple water uses are important issues, more often than not the problems may be overestimated, and can be dealt with through appropriate logistical and land-use planning.
  • In this context, developing countries can today take advantage of a great opportunity. Rather than replicating the economic development process of industrialized nations, which went through a phase that was dirty and wasteful, and created an enormous legacy of environmental pollution, developing countries can leapfrog ahead by incorporating currently available, modern, and efficient technologies in the early stages of their development process.
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  • There are only a few market actors which often suffer from a lack of capital. On the other hand, the sale of RE systems in rural areas leads to high transaction costs, due to long travel distances, lack of market information, poor infrastructure, difficult access to customers and the lack of skilled personnel.
  • Especially in the field of maintenance, there is a widespread lack of information. In all developing countries, one can find the ruins of RE projects that have fallen into disrepair after they had been installed by foreign donors. This is also often due to a lack of skilled personnel in the field of RE technology. In general, awareness on the advantages and characteristics of RE is still rather scarce. Many households do not consider RE when planning their energy provision. Similarly, governments (as much as many international donors) tend to stick to the large-scale, centralised, conventional energy projects they are accustomed to.
  • First of all, many RE technologies are not yet competitive on a cost-basis with conventional forms of energy. In many cases, the advantage of conventional energy is still increased by subsidies. On the other hand, RE systems and their components are often subject to import duties or other taxes.
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