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An Innovation Systems View of the Australian PV Industry

dc.contributor.author Bruce, Anna Gabrielle en_US
dc.contributor.author Passey, Robert en_US
dc.contributor.author Watt, Muriel en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T14:01:19Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T14:01:19Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract Australia leads the world in some areas of photovoltaic technology development, yet current innovation system limitations have seen local innovation overtaken by more rapid international development, or local product development moving offshore for commercialisation. Innovation is traditionally viewed as a linear progression through phases of early research, demonstration, commercialisation and market uptake, and this traditional view strongly emphasises the importance of the early phases. The latest thinking on innovation suggests that technological learning occurs not only through R&D, but also through manufacturing and marketing activities and through the interactions of actors within networks. In this paradigm, technology diffusion, as well as invention and adoption, plays a role in determining the direction of technological change. Organisational change and institutional change, which are critical in determining which technologies become established, are considered to be as important as technical change. This paper proposes the use of an innovation systems framework to assess the characteristics of the Australian PV innovation system, such as the type and number of actors, their linkages, and the resources available to them. Where much of the past support for the PV industry in Australia has been directed towards early research or market development, this research will provide information that could enable the design of policies that better facilitate innovation throughout the value chain and thus improve the impact of future policies on innovation. en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.anzses.org/ en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/41838
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher ANZSES en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Innovation en_US
dc.subject.other Photovoltaics en_US
dc.subject.other Industry development en_US
dc.subject.other Policy en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.title An Innovation Systems View of the Australian PV Industry en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/630
unsw.relation.faculty Engineering
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceLocation Townsville en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceName Solar09, the 47th ANZSES Annual Conference en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceProceedingsTitle Proceedings of Solar09, the 47th ANZSES Annual Conference en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceYear 2009 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Bruce, Anna Gabrielle, Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Passey, Robert, Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Watt, Muriel, Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering *
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