Convening Lead Author (CLA)
Lynn Mytelka (United Nations University-MERIT, the Netherlands)
Lead Authors (LA)
Ibrahim Abdel Gelil (Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain)
Francisco Aguayo (The School of Mexico)
Grant Boyle (McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Canada)
Sylvia Breukers (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands)
Gabriel de Scheemaker (Royal Dutch Shell, the Netherlands)
René Kemp (United Nations University-MERIT, the Netherlands)
Joachim Monkelbaan (International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Switzerland)
Carolina Rossini (Harvard University, USA and University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Jim Watson (University of Sussex, UK)
Rosemary Wolson (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa)
Contributing Authors (CA)
Staffan Jacobsson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Upendra Tripathy (Government of India)
John T. Wilbanks (Creative Commons, Germany)
Review Editor
Youba Sokona (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)
25.1 Introduction
25.2 Energy Transitions: Moving Frontiers
25.3 Capacities and Capacity Development for Energy Transitions
25.3.1 From Capacity Building to Capacity Development
25.3.2 An Innovation Systems Approach
25.4 Path Dependence and Informal Institutions
25.4.1 Urban Transport
25.4.2 Smart Grids
25.4.3 Passive Buildings and Building Materials
25.5 Dialogue, Market Building, and Diffusion
25.5.1 Dialogue at the Local Level: Wind Turbines
25.5.2 Market Building and the Diffusion of Solar Home Services Systems
25.5.3 Diffusion: “Scaling Up” and “Scaling Out” at the Project Level
25.6 Distributed Energy Systems and Development: A Multi-Goal Perspective
25.6.1 Energy Access, Income Generation and Inclusion: Making Choices about Biofuels
25.6.2 Small and Micro-Hydro: Bottom-up Solutions
25.7 Strengthening and Sustaining Capacities for Networking and Innovation
25.7.1 Networks for Open and Distributed Innovation
25.7.2 University-Industry Linkages
25.7.3 Creating Knowledge Networks: South-South, North-South
25.8 Making and Managing Energy Transitions
25.8.1 From Oil to Clean Energy Systems: Policy Learning and Unlearning In Mexico
25.8.2 Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision for 2030
25.8.3 The Dutch Energy Transition Approach
25.8.4 Moving Towards an Energy Transition
25.9 Enhancing Capacity for Effective Participation at the International Level
25.9.1 Funding Energy Transitions: A Capacity Development Approach
25.10 Conclusions
25.10.1 Getting There from Here: First Principles
25.10.2 Making Choices about Energy Transition Pathways
25.10.3 Policies and Practices in Making and Sustaining Energy Transitions
25.11 Case Studies
25.11.1 Case Study 1: Path Dependence and Lock-in: Decentralized Energy in the United Kingdom
25.11.2 Case Study 2: A Bottom-up Approach for Micro-Hydro in Bhutan
25.11.3 Case Study 3: How Open Innovation Systems Speed Problem Solving: InnoCentive
25.11.4 Case Study 4: Creating a Policy Framework for Innovation and Technology Transfer in South Africa
25.11.5 Case Study 5: The Masdar Initiative
25.11.6 Case Study 6: Strengthening Effective Participation at the International Level: The Arabian Gulf University
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