Onshore wind energy can be conceptualized as a “Global Innovation System” in which resources drive technological development and diffusion: Knowledge, markets, investment and legitimacy. This paper investigates the regional embeddedness of resource formation along the industry’s value chain, and explores how these processes are coupled to each other and to the national and global scale.

Empirically, the contribution focusses on a well-developed region within the GIS and highlights different spatial patterns of resource formation: Turbine manufacturing is characterized by spatially sticky knowledge and price-driven global valuation. The diffusion of the technology by downstream value chain and service-based firms reveals different processes: Knowledge for turbine management and system integration is similarly footloose and sticky. The regional level is vital for market formation (siting decisions) and technological legitimation (community acceptance). These valuation processes rest on distinct and diverse kinds of knowledge, and are interlinked, customized and facilitated by regional actor networks.

陆上风能可以被概念化为“全球创新系统”，其中资源驱动技术发展和传播：知识，市场，投资和合法性。本文研究了沿着行业价值链的资源形成的区域嵌入性，并探讨了这些过程如何相互关联以及与国家和全球范围耦合。

从经验上讲，该贡献集中在GIS中发达的区域上，并突出了资源形成的不同空间模式：涡轮机制造的特点是具有空间粘性知识和价格驱动的全球估值。下游价值链和以服务为基础的公司对技术的传播揭示了不同的过程：透平管理和系统集成的知识同样是松懈和棘手的。区域级别对于市场形成（选址决策）和技术合法性（社区接受）至关重要。这些评估过程基于不同种类的知识，并且由区域参与者网络相互关联，定制和促进。