New technologies are necessary to address climate change, but their development and implementation can have different impacts on decarbonizing the energy system and transforming the economy. This work adds to previous efforts to conceptualize how technology innovation influences industrial change (Fontes et al., 2019; Dolata, 2009). The transformative capacity of new technologies depends on technological characteristics as well as contextual variables (Bergek et al., 2015), as shown, for example, in the case of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies or MRET (Fontes et al., 2019). The context influences the development of complementary interactions with existing industries, which are critical to access key resources and markets, but this requires organizational and institutional changes that remain little understood (Markard and Hoffman, 2016). Hence, this study aims to address the following question: Which are the conditions that enable a new technology to involve the largest number of sectors and induce their transformation? In particular: Which factors lead firms to engage with new technology innovation?

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system transformation,relatedness,diversification,energy technologies.