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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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Technology Acquisition and Innovation in the Developing World: Wind Turbine Development... - 1 views

  • 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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