TY - JOUR
T1 - Renewable energy entrepreneurs
T2 - A conceptual framework
AU - Eitan, Avri
AU - Rosen, Gillad
AU - Herman, Lior
AU - Fishhendler, Itay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - The adoption of renewable energies contributes to sustainable development worldwide. Entrepreneurs are key agents in facilitating their promotion, as they improve the mix of the means of production and thus transform renewable energy technologies into viable energy systems. Nonetheless, the literature tends to treat entrepreneurs as a homogeneous group, thus preventing comprehensive understanding of their motivations, behaviors, capabilities, and effects. This study addresses this research gap by identifying and categorizing the various characteristics of these entrepreneurs and developing an integrated classification method. Four examples of renewable energy entrepreneurs, in China, Denmark, Germany, and India, are analyzed according to the proposed classification method, while demonstrating their differences. Thus, through proposing a new analytical typology, this study improves our understanding of renewable energy entrepreneurs and their significant role in the promotion of renewable energy worldwide.
AB - The adoption of renewable energies contributes to sustainable development worldwide. Entrepreneurs are key agents in facilitating their promotion, as they improve the mix of the means of production and thus transform renewable energy technologies into viable energy systems. Nonetheless, the literature tends to treat entrepreneurs as a homogeneous group, thus preventing comprehensive understanding of their motivations, behaviors, capabilities, and effects. This study addresses this research gap by identifying and categorizing the various characteristics of these entrepreneurs and developing an integrated classification method. Four examples of renewable energy entrepreneurs, in China, Denmark, Germany, and India, are analyzed according to the proposed classification method, while demonstrating their differences. Thus, through proposing a new analytical typology, this study improves our understanding of renewable energy entrepreneurs and their significant role in the promotion of renewable energy worldwide.
KW - Energy transition
KW - Entrepreneurial heterogeneity
KW - Entrepreneurs
KW - Renewable energy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086044419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/en13102554
DO - 10.3390/en13102554
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AN - SCOPUS:85086044419
SN - 1996-1073
VL - 13
JO - Energies
JF - Energies
IS - 10
M1 - 2554
ER -
