Capacities Map 2011 - Update on the R&D Investments in Three Selected Priority Technologies of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan: Wind, PV and CSP

Ales Gnamus ()

No JRC67437, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: Collective R&D investments in the three selected low-carbon (LC) energy sectors (wind, PV and CSP) and the share of corporate, national and EU public R&D appropriations in 2008 were assessed by a method comparable with the previous SET Plan capacities map. Collective R&D investments in the three selected priority energy sectors were approximately 40% higher than the 2007 values and amounted to 1.23 billion. The corporate sector contributed more than half of the overall R&D investments in the three priority energy technologies in 2008: 84 % in wind technology, 56 % in PV and 55 % in CSP. The overall corporate R&D expenditures in Europe accounted for close to 850 m, whereas public R&D expenditures by the EU Member States (and also CH and NO) were 303 m and public EU investments were 80.6 m (including FP6/FP7 and CIP-IEE programmes, but excluding SF/CF as well as EIB and ERDF financing). Both public and corporate R&D investments in wind, PV and CSP energy technologies are largely concentrated in a limited number of the EU Member States wind: DE, DK and ES; PV: DE, FR and IT; CSP: IT, ES and DE. The countries with high levels of public R&D support also accounted for the largest corporate R&D investments in the revised sectors, suggesting that public and industrial research investments complement one another. European corporate R&D remains the world leader in terms of investments in the wind sector in 2008 with 76 % of the worlds total corporate R&D investments. The PV sector's corporate R&D investments in 2008 were distributed equally among the Europe, the US and Asia, each holding approximately 1/3 of the R&D investments (with Europe slightly ahead). In the CSP sector, Europe is leading with close to 70 % corporate R&D investments followed by the US, while Asia and the rest of the word have negligible shares in the sector's corporate R&D funding.

Keywords: European research and innovation policy; ERAWATCH; European Research Area; Policy Mixes; International Cooperation; NETWATCH; ERA Nets; Energy; Foresight; Joint programming of research; Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA); On-line Foresight guide; modelling; linking Qualitative and Quantitative methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2011-11
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