TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology diffusion and climate action
T2 - A leader-follower model
AU - Brandt, Urs Steiner
AU - Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Can a small technology-developing country increase technology diffusion to developing countries in climate action? We argue that when a country takes into account all direct and indirect benefits from pushing forward the transnational diffusion of national green technology, a free transfer may give the country a net benefit. This result is driven by the idea that technology transfer partnerships enable the countries to tailor technology development to best fit the special circumstances of receiving countries. Such decentralised cooperation can pave the way for scalable technology diffusion. The focus is on one country’s renewable energy technology development and how this can affect climate action in major developing countries such as China and India. We propose a leader–follower model between the technology-developing country and the developing country that allows complex payoffs and focuses on a situation in which one country makes a cooperative move to solve the inherent collective action problem. This effective shared learning platform has an upscaling potential, and international organisations, such as the European External Action Service, could further facilitate technology diffusion to developing countries.
AB - Can a small technology-developing country increase technology diffusion to developing countries in climate action? We argue that when a country takes into account all direct and indirect benefits from pushing forward the transnational diffusion of national green technology, a free transfer may give the country a net benefit. This result is driven by the idea that technology transfer partnerships enable the countries to tailor technology development to best fit the special circumstances of receiving countries. Such decentralised cooperation can pave the way for scalable technology diffusion. The focus is on one country’s renewable energy technology development and how this can affect climate action in major developing countries such as China and India. We propose a leader–follower model between the technology-developing country and the developing country that allows complex payoffs and focuses on a situation in which one country makes a cooperative move to solve the inherent collective action problem. This effective shared learning platform has an upscaling potential, and international organisations, such as the European External Action Service, could further facilitate technology diffusion to developing countries.
KW - China
KW - Climate action
KW - Denmark
KW - Developing countries
KW - European External Action Service
KW - Leader–follower model
KW - Technology diffusion
U2 - 10.1007/s43069-023-00281-w
DO - 10.1007/s43069-023-00281-w
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2662-2556
VL - 4
JO - Operations Research Forum
JF - Operations Research Forum
IS - 4
M1 - 99
ER -