TY - JOUR
TI - Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway
AU - Havinga, HC
AU - Adriaan van der Loos, HZ
AU - Steen, M
T2 - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
AB - Fixed-bottom offshore wind is exploited as a maturing technology in many European countries. Floating wind has impressive potential for deep waters but needs technological and market development. How these two partially related technologies interact remains unclear. We address the ambiguity of these interactions to investigate floating offshore wind's development. The interactions are divided into technological or market and can be negative (competition and resistance) or positive (collaboration and diversification). We analyze these interaction types through a case study of offshore wind in Norway. Many positive interactions were observed, including knowledge overlaps and infrastructure compatibilities. Negative interactions include competition about future space constraints at ports, labor availability, and resistance by incumbent wind turbine manufacturers. Further, market and technological interactions are mutually influential, creating important feedback loops. Technologies can no longer be simply categorized as ‘niche’ or ‘regime’, but rather ‘niche-like’ (emerging) and ‘regime-like’ (maturing); hence, both emerging-emerging and emerging-maturing interactions occur.
DA - 2024/09//
PY - 2024
PB - Elsevier
VL - 52
SP - 100872
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000625
DO - 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100872
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Floating Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -