Abstract
Technological innovations are vital to move to a sustainable energy system. The world’s major economies’ energy RD&D budgets have increased again after decades of stagnation and decline. Given this growth of spending, it is necessary to understand how well a nation’s energy technology innovation system operates and to identify what should be improved in order to proceed more effectively. As one of the most mature renewable energy technologies, wind power has developed and diffused tremendously in the past few decades. In particular, China now accounts for over 30% of global wind power capacity, leading the world in production and adoption of wind turbines. A question arises: Is China a wind technology innovator? This presentation will use quantitative metrics to compare China with leading countries on the dynamics of knowledge and technology growth in wind turbine industry.
Biography
Rui is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, with a research focus on energy innovation policy. He is working with the RCUK Energy Strategy Fellowship on the research programme for measuring the effectiveness of energy innovation systems across countries and technologies. Rui holds both MSc in Economics and Management of Technology and BSc in Business Administration at the China University of Geosciences, and was involved in several projects funded by the Chinese National Science Foundation and Chinese Ministry of Education. He worked as research assistant at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in summer 2015.