National Competitive Advantage and Energy Transitions in Korea and Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12566189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sung‐young Kim (0000-0002-8245-7156, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 359-375 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-3467 • E-ISSN: 1469-9923 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13563467.2020.1755245 |
| OpenAlex | W3018724497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 29 |
Despite the rise of domestic firms as leading manufacturers of clean technology products, Korea and Taiwan were the lowest users of green energy in the developed world. However, in 2016 Taiwan took a decisive turn to scaling up the use of renewables while lessening the dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and Korea did the same the following year. These significant events raise an intriguing question: Why were these countries capable of embarking on their green energy transitions and with such urgency when they did? I argue that the intensification of competitive pressures in the global renewables sector created the conditions for these states to muster a developmental response via the expansion of domestic markets for renewables. These governments used this opportunity to accelerate the promotion of cutting-edge energy innovations, which would help create new sources of national techno-economic competitiveness. My overall argument is that developmental-cum-environmental states possess national competitive advantages for coping with a global shift to renewables. The findings have implications for the debate over the popular idea of ‘green growth’ and its effectiveness in theory and practice
Business · Competitive advantage · Economic system · Economics · Fossil fuel · Green growth · International trade · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Renewable energy · Sustainable development · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Environmental Politics in East Asia
Low‐Carbon Energy Transition and Corporate Carbon Emissions
Pro-Environmental Nationalism is Still Nationalism
Australian IR scholarship on the environment
Is artificial intelligence greening global supply chains? Exposing the political economy of environmental costs
New Sites of Accumulation? Why Intangible Assets Matter for Energy Transitions
Top-down sustainability transitions in action
Too hot to handle? Governance, markets, and the slow burn of geothermal energy in Taiwan
An indigestible feast? A multi-scalar approach to the energy transition in Taiwan
Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan
In Whose Calculation? The Conflicts, Compromises, and Conversions of Corporate‐Initiated Renewable Electricity Markets
Reframing Growth
Taiwan's Covid‐19 Response
Climate Change Risk Disclosure, Market-Making and Singapore's Developmental State
Miti and the Japanese Miracle
The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism
Embedded Autonomy
Small States in World Markets
Asia's Next Giant
Introduction
The Myth of the Powerless State
Global Green Shift
The Political Economy for Low-carbon Energy Transition in China
Protecting Solar
The Renewable Energy Transition Energy Path Divergence, Increasing Returns and Mutually Reinforcing Leads in the State-Market Symbiosis
Dynamics of Nuclear Power Policy in the Post-Fukushima Era
Hybridized industrial ecosystems and the makings of a new developmental infrastructure in East Asia’s green energy sector
Governing the Market
Miti and the Japanese Miracle. The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
Developmental Environmentalism
Korea's Greening Strategy
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |