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Deficiencies in China’s innovation systems for coal-bed methane development: comparison with the USA
Purpose This paper aims to identify the factors that are constraining technological innovation to support the development of coalbed methane in China. Design/methodology/approach The analysis applies ideas relating to national and sector systems of innovation to explain why China’s strategies to sup...
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Published in: | Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 2023-04, Vol.14 (3), p.511-528 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Purpose
This paper aims to identify the factors that are constraining technological innovation to support the development of coalbed methane in China.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis applies ideas relating to national and sector systems of innovation to explain why China’s strategies to support research and technological innovation have failed to stimulate the desired progress in coalbed methane production. It also provides a counter-example of the USA that implemented a number of measures in the 1970s that proved very effective.
Findings
The deficiencies of China’s research and development strategies in support of coalbed methane development reflect the national and sectoral systems of innovation. They are exacerbated by the structure of the national oil and gas industry. Key constraints include the excessively top-down management of the national R&D agenda, insufficient support for basic research, limited collaboration networks between companies, research institutes and universities and weak mechanisms for diffusion of knowledge. The success of the USA was based on entirely different systems for innovation and in quite a different industrial setting.
Originality/value
The originality of this analysis lies in placing the challenges facing research and innovation for China’s coalbed methane development in the context of the national and sectoral systems for innovation and comparing with the approach and success of the USA. |
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ISSN: | 2053-4620 2053-4639 |
DOI: | 10.1108/JSTPM-04-2020-0071 |