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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Pathways to Sustainability |
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Pathways to sustainability series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: beyond hardware financing and private sector entrepreneurship; Low carbon Africa?; Sustainable energy access and the scholarly deficit; The problem with hardware financing and private sector entrepreneurship; A pathways perspective on why framings matter; Our normative position and the aims of this book; A socio-technical innovation systems perspective; The structure of this book; Towards pro-poor governance of sustainable energy access; Notes |
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2. Innovation systems for technological change and economic developmentIntroduction; An innovation systems perspective: fertile gardens for sustainable transformations; What is innovation?; Innovation as process and outcome; Technology as knowledge not hardware; The incremental nature of most innovation and technological change; Why intellectual property rights are a distraction; Context-specificities in technology needs and knowledge flows; Conclusion: Innovation Systems insights and gaps; Note; 3. Innovation in the context of social practices and socio-technical regimes; Introduction |
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The socio-technical nature of innovation and technological changeSocio-technical transitions and sustainable energy access; Operationalising a socio-technical transitions perspective; Socio-technical innovation systems; Conclusion: towards pro-poor socio-technical innovation system building; Notes; 4. Emergence and articulation of the Kenyan solar PV market; Introduction; Why look at solar PV in Kenya?; Debunking the myth of an unsubsidised market; What of the decreasing price of solar PV?; How the next two chapters proceed; PV for community and commercial services |
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An emergent market trajectory for household PVDevelopment of marketing models in the household PV sector; Broadcasting the news: disseminating knowledge beyond Kenya's PV market; Articulating the market; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Policy regime interactions and emerging markets; Introduction; Policy regime interactions; New markets: pico-solar and module assembly; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Learning from the Kenyan solar PV innovation history; Hardware Financing and Private Sector Entrepreneurship versus Socio-Technical Innovation System Building |
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Private Sector Entrepreneurship: Climate Innovation Centres (CICs)Practical approaches to Socio-Technical Innovation System Building; Existing international policy mechanisms; Two linked policy proposals; Conclusion; Notes; 7. Conclusion: towards Socio-Technical Innovation System Building; Socio-Technical Innovation System Building and pro-poor green transformations; Beyond Kenyan off-grid solar PV; A research agenda: governance, democracy and pro-poor green transformations; Conclusion; Note; References; Index |
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Print version record |
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Renewable energy sources -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Clean energy industries -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Energy security -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Solar energy -- Kenya
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Clean energy industries
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Energy security
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Renewable energy sources
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Solar energy
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Byrne, Rob
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| ISBN |
9781317220503 |
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1317220501 |
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