SMG Seminar with Professor Peter Karnøe

"The Dynamics of Framing in Transactional spaces: The co-creation of worth, calculative devices and calculative agencies in the Danish wind power market"

Introduction

Today wind power is globally the fastest growing energy technology and supplies significant amounts of energy in countries like Denmark and Germany, in Denmark wind power generated electricity supplies 20% of annual electricity consumption. Although the trajectory of wind power institutionally and materially is much more robust today than 25 years ago very few thought that this technology had such a future. In the context of the 1970s with modernization and emerging nuclear power, many evaluated wind power as a relic from the past, some imagined opportunities (doomed as unrealistic), but nobody imagined that wind power should become one of the important ‘weapons’ against the CO2-related climate change at the turn of the century. In fact wind power shared a lot with Edison. Like Edison’s electricity system some 100 years earlier, the wind power electricity emerged outside the traditional energy sector’s network of techno-economic and institutional arrangements (innovations meets institutions). Like Edison’s electricity system, wind power electricity was ‘misfit’, and its existence as a market technology depended upon the ability to create its own new network of techno-economic and institutional arrangements or to find ways to ‘break into’, become linked to and transforming the existing network. Either way, the market for wind power electricity was not pre-existing, and did not emerge from some mysterious process.

Background

The paper is a further development of the paper

“Bricolage versus breakthrough: distributed and embedded agency in technology entrepreneurship” by Raghu Garud and Peter Karnøe, published in Research Policy 32 (2003) p. 277-300.

About the Author

Peter Karnøe is Professor at the Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, CBS

SMG Research Seminars

This seminar is part of the SMG Research Seminar line, which takes place at Fridays. During Spring 2005 the Strategic Management Group will host 17 research seminars all contributing to understanding the main focus of the group, which is how

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