This research article explores the role of innovation intermediaries to accelerate the commercialisation of (clean) technologies. Drawing from the finance and innovation intermediaries literatures we show that financial barriers to eco-innovation can be partly overcome by particular functions of...

In this paper we analyse the case for public application of LED street lighting. Drawing from the energy services literature and transaction cost economics, we compare modes of lighting governance for modernisation. We argue that servitization can accelerate the commercialisation and diffusion...

This paper examines the impact of public policy measures on renewable energy (RE) diffusion through corresponding investments in electricity-generating capacity made by institutional investors (i.e. investment/pension funds, banks and insurance companies). Capacity investment data is gathered...