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Innovation and legacy in energy knowledge infrastructures
Energy Research & Social Science ( IF 8.514 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 , DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102218
Shana Hirsch 1 , David Ribes 1
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We focus on how the concept of knowledge infrastructure can help interrogate both the novelties and continuities in energy transitions. In particular, we turn attention to research, innovation, and knowledge production capacities in renewable energy transitions. We outline the subfield of knowledge infrastructures and introduce concepts relevant to energy research. We especially illustrate the ways that knowledge infrastructures may support or adapt to change, and also the ways that they display ‘legacy’ properties that inhibit, slow or outright prevent transitions. To ground our investigation, we briefly examine research in Scotland’s marine energy sector as the nation pursues a transition from an energy sector heavily reliant on oil and gas, to one based on renewable energy innovation and implementation. Via this case, we illustrate that a great deal of the ‘old’ knowledge infrastructures for energy research, rather than being wholly swept away, instead persist across energy transitions. The concept of knowledge infrastructures provides a powerful addition to energy social science because they are fundamental to our ability to research and develop renewable energy technologies, and so play an important role in defining possible energy futures.



中文翻译:

能源知识基础设施的创新和遗产

我们专注于知识基础设施的概念如何帮助探究能源转型中的新颖性和连续性。我们特别关注可再生能源转型中的研究、创新和知识生产能力。我们概述了知识基础设施的子领域,并介绍了与能源研究相关的概念。我们特别说明了知识基础设施可能支持或适应变化的方式,以及它们展示抑制、减缓或彻底阻止转变的“遗留”属性的方式。为了奠定我们的调查基础,我们简要考察了苏格兰海洋能源部门的研究,因为该国正在寻求从严重依赖石油和天然气的能源部门过渡到基于可再生能源创新和实施的能源部门。通过这个案例,我们说明,能源研究的大量“旧”知识基础设施并没有被完全清除,而是在能源转型过程中持续存在。知识基础设施的概念为能源社会科学提供了强有力的补充,因为它们是我们研究和开发可再生能源技术的基础,因此在定义可能的能源未来方面发挥着重要作用。

更新日期:2021-08-07
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