An empirical analysis of institutional barriers to European hydrogen RD%D cooperation

Totti Könnölä, Pablo Del Rio, Laura Pombo Juarez, Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla and Gregory C. Unruh

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2008, vol. 11, issue 1, 74-96

Abstract: This paper applies and elaborates environmental and evolutionary theorising in the context of international research, development and demonstration (RD%D) cooperation. The theoretical framework of analysis lays particular emphasis on identifying and overcoming institutional barriers to international cooperation for the RD%D that contributes to radical and environmentally friendly systemic changes, particularly hydrogen technology. The paper can be characterised as empirically based theory-building, as it elaborates the conceptual framework and attests its validity with interview findings and empirically based literature reviews. The empirical analysis is based on the results of HY-CO Era-Net interviews with government officers of national funding agencies responsible for the coordination of ERA-Net programmes.

Keywords: evolutionary economics; hydrogen technology; innovation policy; institutions; path dependence; technology lock-in; Europe; institutional barriers; international cooperation; R&D; research and development; demonstration; environmental theory. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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