EXCETP is a virtual organization, i.e., it has an identity of its own but all its members have their organizational home in other real organizations, which provide them with the resources to carry out their work. The concept of virtual organizations has emerged during the last decade within the management literature and been taken up in the business world as a way of putting the principle of flexible networks into practice in order to meet the needs of a rapidly changing environment.

The aim of EXCETP is to provide experience curve data base and methodologies, which together with insights from case studies will support policymaking for energy technology in Participating Countries.

Coordinator:
Clas-Otto Wene
International Energy Agency (IEA)
9, rue de la Fédération
F-75739 Paris Cedex 15
France
Tel: +33 1 4057 6622
Fax: +33 1 4057 6759
Email: Clas-Otto.Wene@iea.org

Definition of Experience Curves
Experience curves are widespread tools for production and strategic analysis within all levels of technology-intense industry. The fact that gathering experience through acting on competitive markets makes individuals, enterprises and industries do better is at the heart of the experience curve phenomenon. The curves show a simple, quantitative relationship between price and the cumulative production or use of a technology. There is overwhelming support for this price-experience relationship from all fields of industrial activity. It is of great interest to see how experience curves can contribute to the design of energy technology polocies. The prupose of this collaboration is therefore to gather data on experience curves for energy technologies, and through case studies develop methodologies, which can be used to strengthen energy technology policy analysis and decision-making.

Collaborators

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Last updated: 02 Sep 2004