气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): A new dawn for (oil) incumbents within the bioeconomy? Trade-offs and lessons for policy

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111763
	A new dawn for (oil) incumbents within the bioeconomy? Trade-offs and lessons for policy
	Hellsmark H.; Hansen T.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	145
英文摘要	This paper develops a more detailed understanding of when incumbent actors may become the main locomotive driving energy transitions. It also illustrates the trade-offs between policy approaches that actively seek to involve the incumbents in transitions, and policy approaches that pursue transitions without their active involvement. The paper examines state support for the bioeconomy in Sweden and concludes that public investments have been geared towards large-scale, complex and integrated biorefineries that are dependent on the active participation of the forest industry. Incumbents in the forest industry have, however, both lacked motivation and the abilities required to take the necessary steps for commercialisation of the demonstrated concepts. Instead, a rather small investment in a joint venture between actors from the forestry and oil refinery industry in Sweden has spurred learning and revenues; and it has placed an oil refinery at the centre of the future development of what we here term distributed biorefining. The main trade-off is that while this shift has opened up for cross-industrial collaborations and the production of advanced biofuels and materials, it has also paved the way for further investments in existing fossil-fuel infrastructure. © 2020
关键词	Bioeconomy Distributed biorefinery Energy transition Incumbents Infrastructure Oil industry
英文关键词	Bioeconomy; Biofuels; Economic and social effects; Economics; Forestry; Fossil fuels; Petroleum industry; Petroleum refineries; Advanced biofuels; Commercialisation; Energy transitions; Fossil-fuel infrastructures; Industrial collaboration; Policy approach; Public investments; Small investments; Investments; alternative energy; biofuel; biotechnology; energy policy; fossil fuel; investment; oil industry; trade-off; Sweden
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204698
作者单位	Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, SE-412 96, Sweden; Department of Human Geography and CIRCLE, Lund University, Lund, SE-221 00, Sweden; Department of Technology Management, SINTEF, Trondheim, NO-7465, Norway
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hellsmark H.,Hansen T.. A new dawn for (oil) incumbents within the bioeconomy? Trade-offs and lessons for policy[J],2020,145.
APA	Hellsmark H.,&Hansen T..(2020).A new dawn for (oil) incumbents within the bioeconomy? Trade-offs and lessons for policy.Energy Policy,145.
MLA	Hellsmark H.,et al."A new dawn for (oil) incumbents within the bioeconomy? Trade-offs and lessons for policy".Energy Policy 145(2020).