Do lead markets for clean coal technology follow market demand? A case study for China, Germany, Japan and the US

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-58

  Horbach, Jens ^a   Chen, Qian ^b   Rennings, Klaus ^c   Vögele, Stefan ^d  

^a AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coal power plants; Energy policy; Energy technology; Lead markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894089837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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