Changing the view of wind power development: More than “bricolage”

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• 作者：Chris Hendry ; ^a ; ^{c.n.hendry@city.ac.uk"" rel=""nofollow} ; Paul Harborne^a ; ^{p.harborne@city.ac.uk"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：Wind power ; Bricolage ; Technological frames ; Experience curves ; Technology innovation systems ; Learning
• 刊名：Research Policy
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：40
• 期：5
• 页码：778-789
• 全文大小：371 K

文摘

Understanding innovation depends at root on good qualitative descriptions. This paper re-assesses the role of “bricolage”, and the extent of science-based R&D and experience-based learning, in the development of the Danish wind turbine system. It argues that the competition between these two opposed frames of reference was never conclusively settled, but involved a reassertion of science-based R&D, which was ultimately decisive for long-term success. This adds a dimension to the received account by showing the persistence of contested collective frames of reference as a driving force across the technology life cycle. At the same time, a more nuanced account of these two learning processes enhances theorisation of the innovation process by showing a learning sequence and interplay of modes that is diametrically at odds with the conventional stylised model of the experience curve.