These pages are about the symposium held during the Academy of Management 2011 meeting in San Antonio, co-sponsored by ONE (Organization and the Natural Environment), TIM (Technology and Innovation Management) and ENT (Entrepreneurship). (See the official program entry) ParticipantsThe session was organized by Joel West (Keck Graduate Institute) and Xiaohong “Iris” Quan (San José State). It features four empirical papers by
These papers were discussed by Andrew Hargadon (UC Davis). ScheduleSlides are being posted as they are made available by the speakers.
AbstractSolving the threat of anthropogenic global warming is one of the most daunting challenges of the 21st century. It requires new models of innovation policy that enable rapid deployment of renew able energy innovation at a global scale (Mowery et al, 2010). Transforming the trillion-dollar energy sector will also necessitate systemic innovation and coordination from a wide range of public and private actors. Such a transformation requires reconciling the competing interests of disparate array of stakeholders, including energy equipment manufacturers, utility companies, incumbent energy producers, energy users, nongovernmental organizations, and local, national and supranational governments. In this symposium, we will review the issues facing both society and private enterprise in implementing such a transformation in Europe, North America and Asia. After summarizing and comparing the economic issues and policy responses from both East and West, we offer papers that examine the entrepreneurial firms that have created renewable energy industries, particularly in solar and wind energy. The papers in this symposium consider the key issues facing those transformation in these nascent industries, including the search for legitimacy (both jointly and individually), the agency problems created by the multi-billion dollar private and public investment with long payback horizons, and innovation paths of the industrial development. Finally, our discussant will integrate the papers from the perspective of environmental entrepreneurship and policy. |
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