Renewable Energy Clusters

Part I. Setting the Scene

1. Supporting Clusters to Create Value: Are We Missing Something?
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

2. What Exactly Are Clusters?
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

3. Why Share Experience of Barriers?
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

4. How Have We Explored the Issues? The Californian Case as an Example
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

Part II. Case Studies

5. The Portuguese Case: The Cost of Inequality
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

6. The German Case: A Cluster Under Threat
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

7. The Canadian Case: The Free Play of Market Forces on an Uneven Playing Field
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

8. The South African Case: Developing and Implementing Incentives to Capture Solar Market Opportunities
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

Part III. Discussion of Cross-Cutting Barriers

9. Recurring Barriers: Cross Cluster Analysis
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

10. Barriers at the Interface Between Companies and Universities
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

11. Policy-Related Barriers
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

12. Communication and Collaboration Barriers
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

Part IV. Conclusion

13. Are We Missing Something? How Can Cluster Policies Create the Conditions for Value Generation?
Gudrun Jaegersberg, Jenny Ure

Keywords: Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Economics, R & D/Technology Policy, Renewable and Green Energy, Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography