OUTPUTS
Multi-dimensional effects of a sustainability transition policy: Sectorial and territorial consequences of the wind energy policy in Portugal
Presentation
How to measure the impacts of decarbonisation on the industrial sector in a specific territory? With this research question,
we grounded the research on two conceptual bases: sustainability transition studies and economic complexity. From the sustainability transitions, the work benefits from the idea that the development of a focal industrial sector is a complex process that is indeed a set of parallel transitions in multiple sectors and that these transitions affect and are affected by the existing context. From Economic Complexity this work brings the agnostic data-driven research, the principle of relatedness, and the idea that the capabilities embodied in a territory could improve its development opportunities. [read more]
Assessing the industrial effects of the deployment of renewable energy technologies: when product identity matters
Presentation and paper submitted
Investment in renewable energy technologies (RET) produces impacts on economic activity and job creation that are fundamental to increase their social acceptability. This paper proposes a methodology to assess the transformative impact of RET on the industry. The paper combines contributions from literatures such as sustainability transitions, socioeconomic impacts of RET and economic complexity. [read more]
Inter-industrial relationships driving the blue economy industrial transformation
Presentation
The “Blue Economy” is considered one of the drivers of European growth, based on the development of new competences and activities that enable a sustainable exploitation of ocean resources (EC, 2021; Howard, 2018). Strategies and policies were formulated, both at the UE and national levels, to address “Blue growth”, combining industrial growth objectives with sustainability concerns. [read more]
Opportunities for economic revitalization through inter-industrial relationships: the case of blue economy
Paper in Proceedings
New, transversal technologies – such as advanced materials, biotechnology, ICTs, robotics - have the potential to drive changes in established industries, contributing to their revitalization and transformation. However, the technological, organizational and cultural distance between them may preclude the emergence of opportunities for transformative interactions. [read more]
Inter-sectoral relations to accelerate the formation of technological innovation systems: determinants of actors’ entry into marine renewable energy technologies
Accepted paper
Decarbonizing the energy system requires new technologies, whose formation and diffusion needs the attraction of actors from different sectors to compose the value chain. Sectoral interactions are crucial and dependent on contextual and technological factors, as well as firm-specific characteristics. [read more]
The geographic trajectory of wave energy technology in the formative phase
Presentation
A sustainable energy transition is fundamental to combat climate change (IPCC, 2018). The energy system has already undergone a profound transformation, driven by a first generation of clean, renewable energy technologies (Mitchell, 2016). But other technologies are currently under development that propose to address some of the new challenges generated along this process (Markard, 2018), or to explore other, still underexploited, energy sources that can further contribute to the decarbonisation of the energy system. [read more]
Intersectoral interaction spaces and the exploitation of new business opportunities: the case of marine energy technologies
Presentation
This paper tackles the transformative potential of new sustainable technologies, that is, the ways in which the development of these technologies can induce structural change by driving new activities in other sectors of the economy (Dolata, 2009). In particular, it discusses whether and how links established between technology producers and firms from existing sectors create conditions for combination of diverse knowledge, driving diversification processes with transformative effects. [read more]
UNLEASHING THE INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY OF INNOVATIONS
Paper
Highlights: Technology innovation assessed in terms of its effects in other sectors | Industrial transformative capacity driven by context, complementarities and competition | Proximity to existing activities accelerates growth but distance create opportunities | Industrial specialization and technology characteristics as sources of variation | Indicator to measure the transformative capacity of innovations is proposed.
This paper investigates the conditions in which the development of new technologies induce structural change in the economy. A literature review reveals three factors that influence the industrial transformative capacity of a technology: context; complementarities; competition. [read more]
From Products to Energy Transition: available knowledge and readiness for transformation in the economy
Presentation
Highlights: Industrial production of a set of products linked to wind energy grew with the increase in installed capacity | Increased competitiveness in international trade of a set of products | There was an increase in the diversification of industrial production in products related to wind generation
The transition to carbon neutrality is a necessity for the world in the face of climate change. Some countries have already managed to make structured reflections on this transition and to quantify in general terms the necessary societal effort. This is the case in Portugal with the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality. The search for reaching quantified goals is complex and involves a myriad of public and private decisions. s... [read more]
Inter-sectoral relations to accelerate technological innovation systems formation: determinants of actors' entry into marine renewable energy technologies
Presentation
Highlights: Renewable marine energies open opportunities for many sectors and relationships | The analysis of microfundametos allows to perceive the interaction between the sectors besides the creation of knowledge in the new technological innovation systems
Decarbonizing the energy system requires new technologies, whose formation and diffusion need the attraction of supply-side actors from different sectors. Sectoral interactions are crucial and dependent on factors including contextual, technological, and firm specific characteristics ... [read more]
Towards Blue Economy: The Influence of Policy Strategies on the Research and Technology Orientation of Portuguese Firms
Paper in Proceedings
Highlights: Transformative role of challenge-led policies | Investigate effects of strategies and policies aiming at the creation of a Blue Economy in Portugal | Some evidence of sustainable change in ocean related RTD activities | Cross fertilization between new and established sectors/firms that can uphold industrial transformation | Effects localized in some industries while others still left behind
The “Blue Economy” was strategically identified as a driver of European growth, through the development of new competences and activities that enable a sustainable exploitation of ocean resources. Research and innovation policies oriented to the Blue Economy, at both European and country levels, can be described as attempts at “mission-oriented” policies... [read more]
On the crest of a wave: the geographic trajectory of wave's energy technology emergence and development
Accepted presentation
The socio-technical transitions literature has turned increased attention to the role played, in development and diffusion of new sustainable technologies, by the established structures - technological, organisational and institutional - within which these technologies emerge. However, there is still a limited understanding of the impact of the emerging technologies upon these contextual structures ... [read more]
Multidimensional and multiscale analysis of knowledge production networks on wave energy
Accepted presentation
The ortho of a new technology is a process that takes place within an existing socio-economic and technological context, while simultaneously contributing to its transformation. The research carried out on the emergence of new technologies is extensive, however, the territorial dynamics of this process is not yet sufficiently analyzed... [read more]
Research and innovation partnerships for the development of ocean-related industries
Presentation
Highlights: Highest investment at system level (marine resources and environment) and in some industry oriented domains | Research targets both new industries - marine energies or biotechnology - and established ones - fisheries and aquaculture | Central role of research organisations that dominate in structural activities | New technology intensive firms in fields such as biotechnology, robotics or materials, often intermediate between research and industry | Opportunity for Portuguese organisations to extend international networks and broaden knowledge bases
The Blue Economy can be a driver of European growth, through the development of new competences and activities that enable a sustainable exploitation of ocean resources. This paper assesses the directions followed by the research and innovation activities performed by Portuguese organisations in the fields encompassed by the "Blue Economy"...[read more]
How innovations attract actors: experience with marine renewable energy technologies
Presentation
New technologies are necessary to address climate change, but their development and implementation can have different impacts on decarbonizing the energy system and transforming the economy. This work adds to previous efforts to conceptualize how technology innovation influences industrial change ...[read more]
Diffusion of energy technology innovations in Portugal and perspectives for decarbonization
Webinar
This communication summarizes the main lessons learned from the analysis on the diffusion of innovations, especially energy technologies, in Portugal, and how they contributed to both the construction of new local technological innovation systems and the sustainable transition... [read more]
Creating a Blue Economy:
Research and innovation partnerships to accelerate the development of ocean-related industries
Presentation
Highlights: Major investment at the system level (marine resources and environment) and in some industry-oriented domains | Research targets both new industries, such as energy or marine biotechnology, and established industries, such as fisheries and aquaculture | Central role of research organizations that dominate in structural activities | New technology-based companies in areas such as biotechnology, robotics or materials, often intermediaries between research and industry | Opportunity for Portuguese organizations to expand international networks and broaden knowledge bases
The Blue Economy can be a driver of European growth, through the development of new competences and activities that enable a sustainable exploitation of ocean resources. This paper assesses the directions followed by the research and innovation activities performed by Portuguese organizations in the fields encompassed by the "Blue Economy" ... [ read more ]
Emergence of floating offshore wind energy: Technology and industry
Paper
Highlights: Up-scaling involves changes at technological and institutional levels | 10 proposals for the development of floating offshore wind energy are surveyed | Visions and strategies converge for accelerating diffusion take-up | Larger scale projects but also regulation and codes required for system up-scaling
The paper investigates the construction of strategies aiming to up-scale low-carbon innovations from pilot to full commercial scale. This requires a systemic understanding of the evolution of the technology along with the organizations and infrastructures supporting its development..... [read more]
Global emergence of new technologies: a dynamic analysis of territorial knowledge communities and relational proximity in wave energy
Presentation
Highlights: Knowledge communities in wave energy both transnationally connected and territorially embedded | Slow and non-linear evolution, but spatial diversification and growing complexity of communities’ composition and relational behaviour | Territorially anchored activities and strategy definition at global level shaped direction of technology development, counteracting periods of decline
The emergence of a new technology is a process that takes place within an existing technological, economic and social context, benefitting from established structures and also contributing to their transformation. ... [read more]
Unleashing the transformative potential of innovations
Presentation
Highlights: Technologies with transformative capacity induce changes in the industrial context | Focus on the extent and nature of activities in adjacent sectors that engage in emerging technologies | Support for more mature technologies allows faster results in the emerging sector; support for the combined development of different technologies results in more diversified activities, innovation and organizational change in adjacent sectors | Comparison with Norway disclosure that the context influences the intensity and nature of complementary and competitive relationships.
Several innovations promise to accelerate transition but only a few can engender broader socio-economic effects beyond environmental improvement. This research questions under which conditions the development of new technological systems contributes to changes in other sectors. We conceptualize the transformative potential of innovations... [read more]