DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1367-5
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84937522592
论文题名: The conceptual and practical challenges to technology categorisation in the preparation of technology needs assessments
作者: Nygaard I. ; Hansen U.E.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2015
卷: 131, 期: 3 起始页码: 371
结束页码: 385
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Application programs
; Commerce
; Diffusion
; Planning
; Technology transfer
; Action plan
; Diffusion of Technology
; Plans of actions
; Technology needs assessment
; Climate change
; adaptation
; assessment method
; climate change
; conceptual framework
; diffusion
; market system
; proxy climate record
; stakeholder
; technological change
英文摘要: The strong focus in climate negotiations on the transfer and diffusion of technologies as a means to mitigate and adapt to climate change has entailed various programs to promote the transfer and diffusion of climate technologies, including the Technology Needs Assessment project (TNA). Despite the technology focus in the project, practice shows that the questions of what a technology is and how the key concepts of technology transfer and diffusion should be understood and operationalized remain diffuse. This paper explores the reasons for this by analysing the experience of the TNA project in using a framework for categorizing technologies according to the types of markets and non-markets in which they are diffused. While the framework has contributed to a higher degree of ‘market literacy’ among national stakeholders, four challenges in categorizing technologies have been identified: i) technologies comprising varying degrees of software, orgware and hardware; ii) technologies appearing as whole systems of production; iii) technologies covering different application markets; and iv) technologies situated on a continuum between research, development and diffusion. These challenges are proxies for the challenges in formulating plans of actions for technologies. If, due to a lack of conceptual clarity, it is not clear to countries whether the diffusion of a specific technology should be implemented by a project or by means of an enabling framework, the measures proposed in the action plans may be misleading. We therefore call for an increased focus on clarifying the technology concept in the training for the next generation of TNAs. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84550
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作者单位: Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark
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Nygaard I.,Hansen U.E.. The conceptual and practical challenges to technology categorisation in the preparation of technology needs assessments[J]. Climatic Change,2015-01-01,131(3)