Prospects for global market expansion of China's wind turbine manufacturing industry

Energy Policy

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 301-318

  Gosens, Jorrit ^a,b   Lu, Yonglong ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Technological innovation system; Wind turbine manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893824768     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.12.055     Document Type: Article

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