Changing the view of wind power development: More than "bricolage"

Chris Hendry and Paul Harborne

Research Policy, 2011, vol. 40, issue 5, 778-789

Abstract: Understanding innovation depends at root on good qualitative descriptions. This paper re-assesses the role of "bricolage", and the extent of science-based R&D and experience-based learning, in the development of the Danish wind turbine system. It argues that the competition between these two opposed frames of reference was never conclusively settled, but involved a reassertion of science-based R&D, which was ultimately decisive for long-term success. This adds a dimension to the received account by showing the persistence of contested collective frames of reference as a driving force across the technology life cycle. At the same time, a more nuanced account of these two learning processes enhances theorisation of the innovation process by showing a learning sequence and interplay of modes that is diametrically at odds with the conventional stylised model of the experience curve.

Keywords: Wind; power; Bricolage; Technological; frames; Experience; curves; Technology; innovation; systems; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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