Slippery Subjects: Locating Processes: Catch up, roll out and transition in Irish wind

S L I P P E R Y S U B J E C T S : L O C AT I N G P R O C E S S E S : C AT C H U P, R O L L O U T A N D T R A N S I T I O N I N I R I S H W I N D C I A N O ’ D O N O VA N | S P R U D P H I L D AY | M AY 2 0 1 4

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Thanks Instead of pretending I know what I’m talking about

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This is historical research I’m going to start with an historical event

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The point here is: We have all these lovely frameworks, That very smart people in other countries have come up with but when we go abroad, we find out that, things work a little bit differently !This is a slippery issue These frameworks don’t come with warning signs This isn’t just about geographers having certain buttons to push

Installed wind capacity (W per capita)

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The problem? Important because 1 we want to solve climate change 2 we want energy security 3 Most important, most countries aren’t leaders: They have to play catch-up !!COMMENT: Coordination could be important herb That’s why these countries do well

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Quality I’m going to introduce a framework

A T E C H N O L O G I C A L I N N O VAT I O N S Y S T E M

Why TIS Martin Bell, catch up, capabilities and technology transfer —focus on the tech system —there’s focus there from policy makers as it is —Not neo classical diffusion —Acknowledges the public good element of sustainability !Systems: Actors | Institutions | Technology | Cumulative causation

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T H I N G SSystems: Actors | Institutions | Technology | Cumulative causation !Ideally we’d like to see a well functioning system One that creates,diffuses and utilises new technology

But I want to look at this in the context of Europe? !— A highly qualitative approach — What is the quality of legitimation — Where does the legitimation come from !— Where do we bound the system? — And where do functions come from? I NEED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

Introducing Binz and Truffer’s nice paper on social network analysis ! TOUCHING DOWN

T H E S E G U Y S A R E L I N K I N G U PF I N D I N G 1

What does the Touch down process look like !

How do functions and capabilities explain the touching down of a TIS in Ireland?

Well the TIS literature suggests that these different functions are important Here we see new actors We see entrepreneurial activity Positive externalities knowledge creation and diffusion !— So far, so reductionist !We typically identify these functions using event history analysis Or process theories

These are the foreign ones

ISSUES OF QUANTITY AND QUALITY

Slippery subject: !Legitimacy is important, who provides it Does this make a difference? How are visions set How do particular visions favour certain actors What about the institutional quality, plan led vs project led

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IWEA formed

Demonstration project

(THERMIE)

1999 Green Paper

Institutional entrepreneurs

EC Directive on electricity

markets 1996

Market incentive schemes

(AER I, III)

RESG

Entrepreneurial projects:

Planning apps

Entrepreneurial projects:

Planning apps

Entrepreneurial projects: project

applications

Investment roadshows

2000 Planning Act

Moratorium

European vision: EC RE Directive

2001

P2/3 REFIT 1 / 2

Institutional change directed from EU

+F5 Coalition building+F5 New actors in TIS

F3: Early entrepreneurial activity

F5: New actors entering TIS

+F5 Location for visions+F2 Influence the direction of search

Knowldege diffusionNew actors in TIS

Lets build up the TIS Through process tracing, historical narratives, analytic chronologies Increasingly look at a turning point scheme, rather than event histories

EU Structural Funds

Wind farms emerge on West

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Certain actors privileged

Project-led institutional approach

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F5 Visions shaped and created

F6 resource mobilisation

F4 market formation

F8 Materialisation

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SYSTEM FLAVOURS

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EU structural funds influence the market creation policies Our institutional setting !In this case we then get to ask: - Who sets these visions? - In whose interests? SYSTEM BARRIERS These can be useful institutional void in Ireland, if the govt don’t legitimise tech, who does, what tech?

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S Y S T E M F L AV O U R S & FAV O U R S

Q U A L I T Y O F F U N C T I O N S

[Final slide] FINDINGS What’s in the country before hand War or peace / Knowledge or power This shapes actor capabilities !FINDINGS: QUALITY VISION Specific visions are created and reinforced as a result of EU and other global functions Push farms to west coast !Sustainability in whose interests: What enables the entrepreneurs, the !FINDINGS: FLAVOUR policy actors strategically open space for system actors National capabilities (cute hoors) combine with institutional setting (project led) to create a system flavour !

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