Objective
Objectives
SORGET concerns the forces that encourage or discourage the effective take-up of advanced energy-efficient technologies within manufacturing processes. The project employs social science perspectives to understand the social and economic forces and organisational processes which encourage or discourage decisions within industrial companies to adopt these technologies. It examines the organisational processes that affect the course of implementation of advanced energy technologies and investigates the consequences for the effectiveness of these technologies in use. The project draws out the implications for regional, national and European Union policies intended to encourage rational use of energy within industry. Above all, the research contributes to an understanding of non-technological barriers and incentives affecting industrial take-up of energy technologies. Understanding these barriers is a way of bringing to visibility the hidden costs of investment in advanced energy technologies which apparently inhibit their take-up.
Technical Approach
The research involves first of all collecting data on national contexts in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, in terms of the use of energy efficiency techniques in manufacturing industry, and the state of the art in terms of energy efficient manufacturing process technologies. Together with a review of literature on energy efficiency and energy use in manufacturing, and on technological innovation as a social process, this background provides the basis for designing a series of case studies of firms in more energy intensive sectors that have adopted advanced energy technologies, in order to understand the external influences and internal organisational processes that have facilitated adoption. The case studies serve also to illuminate the issues that have had to be overcome, and approaches adopted for doing so.
Cases include both large companies that have established competences in advanced energy technologies and smaller companies that have more recently acquired the technologies. A refined set of hypotheses as to factors which facilitate adoption and issues that need to be overcome are being tested out through convening national working conferences in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The refined hypotheses are being further tested through a European-wide postal survey of enterprises.
Expected Achievements and Exploitation
A final report including analyses for factors affecting take-up of energy technologies and recommendations for public policy will be available early in 1998. This will be validated in a European policy working conference.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies public policies
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering
- engineering and technology environmental engineering ecosystem-based management climatic change mitigation
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Coordinator
EC2A 4DE London
United Kingdom
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