Ambition and ambiguity: Expectations and imaginaries developing offshore wind in China

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 50-58

  Korsnes, Marius ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chinese policymaking; Offshore wind technology; Sociology of expectations; Sociotechnical imaginaries

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

DEVELOPMENT TARGETS; FUTURE ORIENTATIONS; IMAGINARIES; LOCAL EXPECTATIONS; OFFSHORE WINDS; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOLOGY OF EXPECTATIONS; STATE INTERVENTION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; GOVERNMENT; POLICY MAKING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER;

CHINA;

EID: 84964345572     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.03.030     Document Type: Article

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