Beschreibung:
This book demonstrates the weaknesses of both the existing academic literature on energy access and the dominant contemporary policy framings of the problem. Through detailed historical analysis it clearly demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective that it advocates, based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building.
1. Introduction: Beyond Hardware Financing and Private Sector Entrepreneurship 2. Innovation Systems for Technological Change and Economic Development 3. Innovation in the Context of Social Practices and Socio-Technical Regimes 4. Emergence and Articulation of the Kenyan Solar PV Market 5. Policy Regime Interactions and Emerging Markets 6. Learning from the Kenyan Solar PV Innovation History 7. Conclusions: Towards Socio-Technical Innovation System Building