Spaces for sustainable innovation: Solar photovoltaic electricity in the UK
Spaces for sustainable innovation: Solar photovoltaic electricity in the UK
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DOI：
10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.001
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发表时间：
2014
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12
通讯作者：
Adrian Smith;F. Kern;R. Raven;B. Verhees
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作者：
Adrian Smith;F. Kern;R. Raven;B. Verhees
本文结合了最近关于生态位空间在可持续创新战略管理中的作用的研究。虽然越来越多的实证研究着眼于这些空间的发展，但令人惊讶的是，很少有人停下来考虑这些空间本身是如何随着时间的推移而发展的，这些空间的构成是什么，以及它们的特征如何影响可持续创新。我们通过对英国过去40年太阳能光伏发电历史的案例研究来探讨这些问题。虽然我们看到的证据与最近关于生态位空间保护、培育和促进可持续创新的观点一致，但我们分析的主要目的是得出结论，这是以有争议和妥协的方式出现的。此外，我们的分析表明，通过技术倡导者递归地解释、代表和协商创新内容和环境的政治能力，利基空间得以发展。
This paper engages with recent research concerning the roles of niche spaces in the strategic management of sustainable innovations. Whilst a growing body of empirical investigation looks to developments within these spaces, it is surprising how little pauses to consider how the spaces themselves develop over time, what constitutes these spaces, and how their characteristics influence sustainable innovation. We explore such questions through a case study into the history of solar photovoltaic electricity generation over the last 40 years in the UK. Whilst we see evidence consistent with recent ideas about niche spaces shielding, nurturing, and empowering sustainable innovation, the main thrust of our analysis concludes that this arises in contested and compromised ways. Moreover, our analysis identifies niche space developing through the political ability of technology advocates recursively interpreting, representing, and negotiating between the content and contexts of innovation.