The impact of Product Life Cycle and China’s Policy on Solar Photovoltaics Cell Industry
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Wei-Lun
Abstract
The thesis analyzes the production and patenting performance among six countries, three forerunners (US, Japan and Germany) and three followers (China, Taiwan and S. Korea) in Solar Photovoltaic Cell industry. We use production data from 2001 to 2011 and patent number data from 1970 to 2010 in the six countries and worldwide.
In this paper, we introduce product life cycle and dominant design to illustrate the importance of timing when the PV technology was introduced into the renewable energy market. In addition, we adopt Teece’s theory on innovation (1986) to explain followers’ catching up behavior in solar PV production.
Besides, we find out the excellence on Chinese PV production after 2008, which is out of Teece’s projection. In our observation, the solar PV market is heavily impacted by Chinese government policies through various supply-side subsidies. The policies also explain the surge of Chinese PV production well. Finally, we give two comments of emphasis on R&D and provision of demand-side policies in 2nd generation of PV industry for follower’s firms and governments respectively.
Subjects
solar photovoltaic industry
product life cycle
dominant design
demand-side subsidy
supply-side subsidy
SDGs
Type
thesis
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