Technology-based start-ups as engines for renewable energy
Research Project, 2017
– 2020
The proposed project aims to develop knowledge about how start-up companies establish themselves in network structures and function as engines for renewable energy. Start-ups are newly founded firms based on innovative technology aiming to commercialize renewable energy. The theoretical base is the industrial network approach and especially the assumption of resource heterogeneity, implying that the value of resources depend on how they are combined with other resources. For start-ups to become established and commercialize their technology, resources need to fit in and simultaneously confront the existing system. The project builds on a case research methodology of start-ups within renewable energy and going in-depth into two-three cases. All together this project is to contribute to an understanding of prerequisites for how a diversity of actors and technologies in interaction are needed for reaching renewable energy.
Participants
Frida Lind (contact)
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Maria Landqvist
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Funding
Swedish Energy Agency
Project ID: 44683-1
Funding Chalmers participation during 2017–2019
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Transport
Areas of Advance
Energy
Areas of Advance
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Driving Forces