Low carbon innovation and enterprise growth in the UK: Challenges of a place-blind policy mix

By Elvira Uyarra, P. Shapira, A. Harding. 2016

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This paper uses a policy mix approach to examine the institutional and governance issues arising from the UK's support for innovation in low carbon manufacturing sectors. The paper draws on interviews with managers of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises as well as policy practitioners and industry experts. The analysis of these interviews highlights issues in the multi-scalar design and delivery of these policies, including gaps and tensions in the policy mix, as well as the importance, and relative neglect of, regional institutional entrepreneurship in driving change. We find that coherence and consistency in UK low-carbon innovation policy is lacking, which is creating uncertainty and hampering private sector investment. The loss of regional capacity and anchor institutions challenges local and national actors to leverage instruments and connections but with much depleted resources, lacking a clear mandate, and facing a fragmented intermediary and support landscape.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The need for comprehensive and well targeted instrument mixes to stimulate energy transitions: The case of energy efficiency policy (2017, unknown): “These range from policy studies (Howlett and del Rio 2013; Kern and Howlett 2009; Howlett and Rayner 2013) to environmental economics (del Rio 2007; Lehmann 2010) and innovation and transition studies (Rogge and Reichardt 2016; Kivimaa and Kern 2016; Uyarra et al 2016).”
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017, background): “Finally, the interdisciplinary field of innovation studies has also relatively recently taken a specific interest in questions around the role of policy mixes in promoting technological and other kinds of innovations, with several contributions published over the last decade in Research Policy [39,4”
Do policy mix characteristics matter for low-carbon innovation? A survey-based exploration of renewable power generation technologies in Germany (2018, background): “While our study concerns Germany, its insights provide research and policy implications which are also relevant to other regions and countries interested in harnessing the low-carbon market opportunities arising from the Paris Agreement, such as China, California, and the UK (Cai and Zhou, 2014; Ana”