Handling financial resource mobilisation in technological innovation systems - The case of chinese wind power

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 3872-3882

  Karltorp, Kersti ^a,b   Guo, Siping ^a   Sandén, Björn A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

China; Financial resources; Innovation system; Resource mobilisation; Wind power

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FINANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CHINA; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; INNOVATION SYSTEM; INNOVATION SYSTEM FUNCTIONS; MOBILISATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS; WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT;

WIND POWER;

EID: 85006511994     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.075     Document Type: Article

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