Role of street-level policy entrepreneurs in sustainability transition: Evidence from India's transition to LED lighting

IF 6.9 2区 经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103745
Shubham Sharma
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Recent scholarly developments emphasise integrating insights from public policy discipline within the multilevel perspective (MLP) to understand sustainability transitions better. In this context, this article incorporates the concept of street-level policy entrepreneurs, specifically government-affiliated implementation agencies, within MLP to explain technology adoption and market creation when the technology is not cost-competent. The MLP framework is applied to analyse the case of the LED transition in India and highlight how a window of opportunity emerged in India, driven by global niche developments, favourable regime conditions and relevant institutional mechanisms. However, the high upfront cost of LEDs posed a significant challenge in utilising this window for niche-regime linking. This study demonstrates the critical role and activities of a state-affiliated implementation agency—Energy Efficiency Services Limited—in utilising this window of opportunity to accelerate the transition. It examines Energy Efficiency Services Limited's innovative implementation model that helped overcome the high upfront cost of LEDs, resulting in widespread technology adoption and reorientation of firm activities towards domestic manufacturing of LEDs in India. This study contributes to MLP scholarship by exploring the role of government in the later phases of the policy process and transition.

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街道政策企业家在可持续性转型中的作用:印度向 LED 照明过渡的证据
最近的学术发展强调将公共政策学科的见解纳入多层次视角(MLP),以更好地理解可持续性转型。在此背景下,本文在 MLP 中纳入了街头政策企业家(特别是政府附属执行机构)的概念,以解释当技术不具备成本竞争力时的技术采用和市场创造。本文运用 MLP 框架分析了印度 LED 转型的案例,并强调了印度是如何在全球利基发展、有利的制度条件和相关体制机制的推动下出现机会之窗的。然而,LED 的高昂前期成本对利用这一窗口实现利基与制度的联系构成了重大挑战。本研究展示了隶属于国家的执行机构--能源效率服务有限公司--在利用这一机会之窗加速转型方面所发挥的关键作用和开展的活动。本研究探讨了能效服务有限公司的创新实施模式,该模式帮助克服了 LED 的高昂前期成本,从而在印度实现了技术的广泛采用,并将公司活动调整为在国内生产 LED。本研究通过探讨政府在后期政策进程和过渡阶段的作用,为 MLP 学术研究做出了贡献。
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Energy Research & Social Science
Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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441
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55 days
期刊介绍: Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.
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