Title: Charting the routes to commercialization: The absorption and transfer of energy conservation technologies

Authors: Gordon Kingsley, Barry Bozeman

Addresses: School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30032, USA. ' School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30032, USA

Abstract: This study examines how innovations in Energy Conservation Technologies (ECT|s) developed through public sponsorship become commercialized. In the typical ECT project, public support is used as a catalyst bringing public and private organizations together to perform the work. The variety of routes to commercialization this creates can be analysed using two concepts: absorption and transfer. Absorption is adoption of an ECT by an organization participating in the project. Transfer is adoption by non-participants. Two cases sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (the Energy Authority) are analysed. In the first case commercialization is limited to the absorption process. In the second case both absorption and transfer are used in commercialization.

Keywords: commercialisation; energy conservation; energy technology; public management; research and development; R&D; technology transfer; USA; United States; absorption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1997.063319

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1997 Vol.9 No.1/2, pp.8-15

Published online: 10 Jul 2014 *

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