دانلود رایگان مقاله مسیر decarbonisation تکنولوژیکی سازمان

abstract

This paper adopts an ex ante perspective to investigate the potential techno-organisational dynamics related to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU by 2030 and 2050. We provide a qualitative analysis based on interviews with representatives from the main manufacturing sectors in the EU. Path dependency and enhanced carbon pricing may support the ‘incremental path’. More radical changes are achievable through strong techno-organisational reorganisation and new policy support. It follows that technological innovation is sufficiently effective only if coupled with organisational innovation. Earmarking ‘environmental revenues’ to support sector R&D is a way to enhance the governance of the innovation-policy realm and create opportunities for radical innovation.

5. Conclusions

European industry is currently operating between the first and second phases of the technological revolution identified by Grubb (2014). The first phase involves reaping the benefits of win-win energy strategies, which are similar to business-as-usual options but are supported by more social and scientific awareness and new policy commitment. The second phase involves the optimisation of strategies based on incremental evolution in response to current or anticipated prices for high carbon/low carbon uses. Transformations through the integration of energy and economic and environmental systems are in their infancy (third phase), although some strategies (e.g., innovation synergies/complementarity) represent a move in that direction. We are thus in the earliest phase of a new technoeconomic paradigm, which is “the result of a complex collective learning process” (Perez, 2009, p. 14).