Seeking cooperation on photovoltaic brackets

What is co-operative innovation in the photovoltaic industry?

Cooperative innovation spread from the east to west in space and from the central area to surrounding cities. In terms of the industry chain, the initial innovation cooperation (in 2010) of the photovoltaic industry focused on mid-stream links such as solar cells and module manufacturing.

How did incentive policies affect solar PV development?

Platzer et al. (Platzer, 2016) pointed out that the introduced incentive policies were the key factors to affecting the PV deployment and that they helped to initiate the early niche markets in the United States. Since the 1990s, Japan and Germany have become the leading countries in solar PV development.

How does geographic proximity affect Photovoltaic Industry Innovation?

Not only is geographic proximity used as one of the drivers of the evolution of the photovoltaic industry innovation network but the Stochastic Actor-Oriented (SAO) Model is also employed to measure the threshold of geographic distance for innovation cooperation to draw more regularity conclusions. The rest of the article is organized as follows.

Where is the photovoltaic (PV) market developing?

Figure 7. The photovoltaic (PV) market development in China, Germany, Japan and the USA from 1990 to 2017 (Data source: IEA. PVPS. National Survey Report of PV Power Applications). By the end of 2009, the cumulative PV installed capacity in China was only 300 MW.

What drives the innovation network dynamics of the photovoltaic industry?

The innovation ability of the actors in the network is one of the driving factors of the innovation network dynamics of the photovoltaic industry. The actors with strong innovation abilities show outstanding performance in innovation resources, internal culture, and management philosophy.

Where did photovoltaic market development and incentive policy take place?

Annual photovoltaic (PV) market development and incentive policy in China, Germany, Japan and the United States (Data source: IEA policy database). Except for the USA, all other three countries launched national-scale FiT schemes. Figure 10 shows the annual PV market and incentive policy in China, Germany, Japan, and the USA from 1990 to 2016.