Overview
- Examines the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) as part of wider climate and energy policies
- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of why the SET-Plan was adopted and what it has achieved
- Assesses prospects for EU low-carbon innovation based on lessons from the SET-Plan
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- energy technology
- low-carbon technology
- Strategic Energy Technology Plan
- SET-Plan
- research and innovation
- EU climate and energy policy
- Europeanization
- EU integration theory
- Liberal Intergovernmentalism
- Multi-level Governance
- international technology markets
- EU policy-making
- EU policy implementation
- EU funding programmes
- climate funding
- market-pull
- EU 2030 energy and climate policy framework
- lessons from low-carbon research and innovation
- low-carbon energy research
- european union politics
About this book
—Sebastian Oberthür, Institute for European Studies, Belguim
"This compact volume effectively addresses a surprisingly unknown territory in an otherwise well-explored landscape. In doing so, it will provide a useful resource to all who follow the uneven progress of climate and energy policy in the EU context, as well as those who are interested in policies to stimulate technology development more broadly."
—Tim Rayner, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK
The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) was aimed at accelerating low-carbon innovation by raising, coordinating and concentrating resources to certain low-carbon technologies. At the ten-year anniversary of the SET-Plan, this book examines why it was adopted and what it has achieved. Using an analytical framework developed to capture the ‘politics of innovation’, the authors trace the history of the Plan from initiation to implementation, and then explain its development as seen from the perspectives of the EU institutions, member-states, industry, the research community and international technology markets. The concluding chapter discusses lessons and prospects for European low-carbon innovation towards 2030 and beyond. This new work fills a void in the literature on EU climate and energy policies, and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in these fields.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jon Birger Skjærseth is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansens Institute, Norway. His research interests include international environmental cooperation, EU climate and energy policies and corporate strategies. He has published numerous articles and books, including Corporate Responses to EU Emissions Trading and Linking EU Climate and Energy Policies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation
Book Subtitle: The EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan
Authors: Per Ove Eikeland, Jon Birger Skjærseth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17913-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17912-0Published: 10 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17915-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17913-7Published: 28 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 142
Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics, Governance and Government, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy, International Organization