Slippery Subjects: Locating Processes: Catch up, roll out and transition in Irish wind
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S L I P P E R Y S U B J E C T S : L O C AT I N G P R O C E S S E S : C AT C H U P, R O L L O U T A N D T R A N S I T I O N I N I R I S H W I N D C I A N O ’ D O N O VA N | S P R U D P H I L D AY | M AY 2 0 1 4
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Thanks Instead of pretending I know what I’m talking about
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This is historical research I’m going to start with an historical event
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G O O D
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( A B S O L U T E LY N O T H I N G )
The point here is: We have all these lovely frameworks, That very smart people in other countries have come up with but when we go abroad, we find out that, things work a little bit differently !This is a slippery issue These frameworks don’t come with warning signs This isn’t just about geographers having certain buttons to push
Installed wind capacity (W per capita)
1998 2013
800
0
Source Eurostat 2014
The problem? Important because 1 we want to solve climate change 2 we want energy security 3 Most important, most countries aren’t leaders: They have to play catch-up !!COMMENT: Coordination could be important herb That’s why these countries do well
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Quality I’m going to introduce a framework
A T E C H N O L O G I C A L I N N O VAT I O N S Y S T E M
Why TIS Martin Bell, catch up, capabilities and technology transfer —focus on the tech system —there’s focus there from policy makers as it is —Not neo classical diffusion —Acknowledges the public good element of sustainability !Systems: Actors | Institutions | Technology | Cumulative causation
A L L T H E
T H I N G SSystems: Actors | Institutions | Technology | Cumulative causation !Ideally we’d like to see a well functioning system One that creates,diffuses and utilises new technology
But I want to look at this in the context of Europe? !— A highly qualitative approach — What is the quality of legitimation — Where does the legitimation come from !— Where do we bound the system? — And where do functions come from? I NEED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS
Introducing Binz and Truffer’s nice paper on social network analysis ! TOUCHING DOWN
T H E S E G U Y S A R E L I N K I N G U PF I N D I N G 1
What does the Touch down process look like !
How do functions and capabilities explain the touching down of a TIS in Ireland?
Well the TIS literature suggests that these different functions are important Here we see new actors We see entrepreneurial activity Positive externalities knowledge creation and diffusion !— So far, so reductionist !We typically identify these functions using event history analysis Or process theories
These are the foreign ones
ISSUES OF QUANTITY AND QUALITY
Slippery subject: !Legitimacy is important, who provides it Does this make a difference? How are visions set How do particular visions favour certain actors What about the institutional quality, plan led vs project led
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IWEA formed
Demonstration project
(THERMIE)
1999 Green Paper
Institutional entrepreneurs
EC Directive on electricity
markets 1996
Market incentive schemes
(AER I, III)
RESG
Entrepreneurial projects:
Planning apps
Entrepreneurial projects:
Planning apps
Entrepreneurial projects: project
applications
Investment roadshows
2000 Planning Act
Moratorium
European vision: EC RE Directive
2001
P2/3 REFIT 1 / 2
Institutional change directed from EU
+F5 Coalition building+F5 New actors in TIS
F3: Early entrepreneurial activity
F5: New actors entering TIS
+F5 Location for visions+F2 Influence the direction of search
Knowldege diffusionNew actors in TIS
Lets build up the TIS Through process tracing, historical narratives, analytic chronologies Increasingly look at a turning point scheme, rather than event histories
EU Structural Funds
Wind farms emerge on West
coast
Certain actors privileged
Project-led institutional approach
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ource m
obilisati
onF5 legitimation
F5 Visions shaped and created
F6 resource mobilisation
F4 market formation
F8 Materialisation
Danish turbines
F6 re
sour
ce m
obili
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Local market creation policies
SYSTEM FLAVOURS
EMERGE
EU structural funds influence the market creation policies Our institutional setting !In this case we then get to ask: - Who sets these visions? - In whose interests? SYSTEM BARRIERS These can be useful institutional void in Ireland, if the govt don’t legitimise tech, who does, what tech?
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S U M M A R I S I N GF R A M E W O R K V S
C O N T E X T
S Y S T E M F L AV O U R S & FAV O U R S
Q U A L I T Y O F F U N C T I O N S
[Final slide] FINDINGS What’s in the country before hand War or peace / Knowledge or power This shapes actor capabilities !FINDINGS: QUALITY VISION Specific visions are created and reinforced as a result of EU and other global functions Push farms to west coast !Sustainability in whose interests: What enables the entrepreneurs, the !FINDINGS: FLAVOUR policy actors strategically open space for system actors National capabilities (cute hoors) combine with institutional setting (project led) to create a system flavour !
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