Powered by a growing environmental awareness and the perception of ending fossil-based energy sources, wind energy has evolved as a reliable, mature and increasingly price-competitive alternative to fossil and nuclear energy sources. Along with incremental technological progress, the wind...

Der Erfolg der erneuerbaren Energien und deren Ausbau in Deutschland stellt Politik und Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf Technologien, Finanzierung und Akzeptanz, bietet aber gleichzeitig auch viele Chancen. Die sich auf verschiedenen Maßstabsebenen überlagernden...

The rapid rise of China as the largest wind energy market worldwide with several global leaders in turbine manufacturing received much attention from both scholarly and policy-analytical work. However, little attention has been given to the innovation activities of the Chinese wind industry. In...