*apologies for cross-posting*
We'd like to invite you to our All-Academy Symposium entitled "Issues Surrounding the Emergence and Diffusion of Technologies for Renewable Energy Generation" on
Sunday, Aug 9 11:30AM - 1:00PM at the Hyatt Regency in Grand D North
This symposium brings together new research on the emergence and diffusion of clean technologies, and technologies for renewable energy generation in particular. Fostering the evolution of technologies for renewable energy generation is an increasingly pressing issue for many nations including the United States. At the same time, understanding the evolution of these and related technologies offers opportunities to advance theories of organizational learning and adaptation, social movements, institutional alignment, and technology diffusion. Papers in this symposium have a strong theoretical anchoring in these organization and management theories, and all include data on a variety of clean technologies, including solar and wind energy generation. Through revealing some novel processes and factors that affect how clean technologies emerge, the symposium will promote discussion among scholars interested in the formation and uptake of new ventures, technologies, and institutions. It will also promote discussion of implications for managers and policy makers seeking to become more effective in their efforts to influence the trajectories of clean technologies.
Chair: Ann Terlaak (U. of Wisconsin, Madison) and Yan Gong (U. of California, Irvine)
· Presenter: Suzanne Tilleman & Michael V. Russo (U. of Oregon): Local Institutions and the Emergence of Cleantech
· Presenter: W Chad Carlos, Wesley Sine (Cornell U.) & Brandon Lee (London Business School): The Movements of Wind
· Presenter: Margaret Taylor (U. of California, Berkeley): Clean Technology Development under Cap-and-Trade Abatement Programs
· Presenter: Ann Terlaak (UW-Madison) & Yan Gong; (U. of California, Irvine): Analogical Learning and Technology Adoption: The Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cell Industry
Discussant: Ann Miner (U. of Wisconsin, Madison)