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Barbosa, J., Fontes, M. & Bento, N. (2022). Assessing the industrial effects of the deployment of renewable energy technologies: when product identity matters. Proceedings of the 2022 DRUID Conference .

J. Barbosa et al.,  "Assessing the industrial effects of the deployment of renewable energy technologies: when product identity matters", in Proc. of the 2022 DRUID Conf. , Copenhaga, 2022

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	author = "Barbosa, J. and Fontes, M. and Bento, N.",
	title = "Assessing the industrial effects of the deployment of renewable energy technologies: when product identity matters",
	year = "2022",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)",
	url = "https://conference.druid.dk/ac_papers/9j87td4p0nxablq190svgdsrxy9giv.pdf"
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AU  - Fontes, M.
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AB  - Investment in renewable energy technologies (RET) produces impacts on economic activity
and job creation that are fundamental to increase the social acceptability of those
technologies. Previous research that attempted to measure the impacts of RET has mainly
focused on its effects in energy production and climate mitigation, but surprisingly little is
known about the potential of RET to transform the industrial structure of an economy. This
paper proposes a methodology to understand and measure the industrial transformative
impact of RET. The paper draws on contributions from the sustainability transitions literature
and from the economic literature that analyses the socioeconomic impacts of RET, and
combine them with the economic complexity literature in order to address two main gaps: the
lack of measurement of industrial transformative effects in the first; and the assumption of
product homogeneity in the second that precludes an assessment of more structural impacts.
We develop a conceptual approach to the way technology deployment can lead to changes in
the industrial structure, centered on the notion of product heterogeneity intrinsic to the
economic complexity literature. We advance three main dimensions along which to measure
the changes in the industrial structure driven by modifications in the basket of products being
produced due to the development of the technology value chain: sophistication, connectivity,
and competitiveness. We also propose a more precise delineation of the industrial value chain
of the technology, by considering the actual weights of each sector to the technology and the
technology to each sector. This approach is applied to the case of wind energy in Portugal (a
successful fast follower), compared with three other main wind energy producers (Spain,
Denmark, Germany). The results show a strong relationship between the deployment of the
technology and the sophistication and the competitiveness of the “cloud of products”
composing the industrial value chain. The paper proposes a novel analytical framework and
measurement tools that can support a timely assessment of the effects of sustainable energy
technologies in the industrial structure, with relevance for policy.
ER  -