Abhishek Malhotra


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Abhishek

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  • Globalising innovation through co-inventions the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry
    Item type: Journal Article
    Peiseler, Leopold Johannes Florentin Max; Jun, Ye Lin; Schmid, Nicolas; et al. (2024)
    Environmental Research Letters
    Radical innovations can shift the global competitiveness of entire nations. While countries typically struggle to absorb knowledge about novel technologies quickly, in which knowledge tends to be spatially sticky, an important exception is the fast catch-up of the Korean Li-ion battery industry from Japan in the early 2000s. In this paper, we conduct an exploratory case study on this surprising success story. Focussing on patent co-inventions between Korea and Japan, we investigate their significance, as well as underlying types of co-inventions and types of transferred knowledge. To this end, we proceed in four steps: (1) a Poisson regression model; (2) social network analyses; (3) patent inventor tracking and (4) patent coding. Our results indicate that Korean Japanese co-inventions hold significantly greater influence than other cross-country co-inventions, including with patents without cross-country collaboration. We find a pronounced knowledge-Transfer intensity during the early 2000s and observe two types of co-inventions: organisation-level and inventor-level. Predominantly, we observe inventor-level co-inventions, i.e. Korean companies hiring experienced Japanese engineers, that proved important to transferring sticky knowledge. Moreover, while most patents target the design of core battery components, the share of manufacturing patents are contrary to theoretical expectations highest during the first half of the observation period. We also discuss our findings and draw implications for policy, industrial and academic players, including industry localisation policies, technology-inherent catch-up strategies and directions for future research.
  • The role of inter-sectoral learning in knowledge development and diffusion: Case studies on three clean energy technologies
    Item type: Journal Article
    Malhotra, Abhishek; Schmidt, Tobias; Huenteler, Joern (2019)
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • How can NAMAs attract private sector low-carbon investment?
    Item type: Report
    Schmidt, Tobias; Malhotra, Abhishek (2015)
    Annual Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) 2015
  • Use cases for stationary battery technologies: A review of the literature and existing projects
    Item type: Journal Article
    Malhotra, Abhishek; Battke, Benedikt; Beuse, Martin; et al. (2016)
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Scaling up finance for off-grid renewable energy: The role of aggregation and spatial diversification in derisking investments in mini-grids for rural electrification in India
    Item type: Journal Article
    Malhotra, Abhishek; Schmidt, Tobias; Hälg, Léonore; et al. (2017)
    Energy Policy
  • Derisking Renewable Energy Investment: Off-Grid Electrification
    Item type: Report
    Waissbein, Oliver; Bayraktar, Hande; Henrich, Christoph; et al. (2018)
  • Trade-offs and synergies in power sector policy mixes: The case of Uttar Pradesh, India
    Item type: Journal Article
    Malhotra, Abhishek (2022)
    Energy Policy
    Policymakers in the electricity sector in several developing countries must perform a balancing act between ensuring financial viability of utilities, extending electricity access and minimizing the environmental impact of electricity supply. However, it is often not clear how multiple policy goals and instruments in an electricity sector policy mix interact with each other in a dynamic manner. This study uses a mixed-method approach to analyze synergies and trade-offs between policies for financial reform of utilities, extending electricity access, and solar PV deployment in the case of Uttar Pradesh in India. First, it uses qualitative methods to trace the evolution of Uttar Pradesh's electricity sector policy mix from 2012 to 2018 and to highlight key interactions therein. Second, it uses financial modeling to analyze the impact of the identified key interactions on utilities' financial performance from 2019 to 2022. The study finds that the policies often do not consider their mutual interactions, even though policy design and sequencing can have a major role in determining policy outcomes. Thus, this study provides recommendations on how to develop a more integrated approach to policy mix design in the electricity sector. Ex-ante assessments of policy mixes that take into account multiple policy goals, instruments as well as their sequencing could prove to be particularly fruitful.
  • The Age of Renewable Power - Designing National Roadmaps For a Successful Transformation
    Item type: Report
    Kempener, Ruud; Malhotra, Abhishek; de Vivero, Gustavo (2015)
  • Catching-up in green industries: the role of product architecture
    Item type: Journal Article
    Matsuo, Tyeler; Malhotra, Abhishek; Schmidt, Tobias S. (2024)
    Innovation and Development
    As latecomers to the industrialization process, developing countries may face barriers to upgrading from the production of mass-produced goods to higher-value technologies. Scholars have suggested that 'windows of opportunity' can temporarily lower entry barriers and provide an opportunity for latecomers to catch up to or even leapfrog incumbents. In this paper, we use the literature on product architecture to build on the concept of windows of opportunity. Specifically, we explore how changes in a technology's use environment can create opportunities for indigenous innovation and upgrading in specific sub-systems or components of complex technologies. Using a comparative qualitative case study focusing on three renewable energy technologies, we develop a typology of catching-up opportunities in green energy industries. Our findings suggest that policymakers should target certain technologies in their industrial strategies based on certain technology characteristics, and should seek opportunities to capitalize on a local niche that creates a need for innovation.
  • Report: Perspectives of Power-to-X technologies in Switzerland
    Item type: Report
    Kober, Tom; Bauer, Christian; Bach, Christian; et al. (2019)
    Ambitions to mitigate climate change, increase the pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across all sectors of the economy, with significant implications for the energy landscape as well as other emissions sources. Switzerland has committed to reducing its annual direct emissions of GHG by 50% by 2030 compared to 1990. A major share of this reduction shall be achieved domestically while some emissions can be based on measures abroad through the use of international credits. The Swiss government has also formulated the long-term goal to reduce GHG emissions in 2050 by 70-85% compared to 1990 levels (including measures abroad), and to achieve climate neutrality after 2050. Today, domestic GHG emissions in Switzerland originate by about 60% from energy conversion in the transport and building sectors, and by 40 % from other sources including industry. Carbondioxide (CO2) is the major GHG that is emitted with the transport sector being the sector with largest contribution. Given this distribution of GHG emissions, particularly CO2 emissions in the demand sectors attributable to energy conversion and industrial production processes need to be avoided to achieve the climate goals. As of 2017, the Swiss electricity sector is already almost CO2-free as electricity is mainly generated from hydropower (60%), nuclear (32%) renewable and non-renewable combustible energy (5%) and other renewable energy (4%). Future pathways for the developments of the Swiss energy sector are framed by the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050, which aims at discontinuing energy supply from nuclear power plants in Switzerland, and promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency. The transformation of the Swiss energy economy calls for the deployment of new low-carbon energy solutions while maintaining the high level of energy supply reliability, which in particular applies to the electricity sector. One option to provide low-carbon energy services is an increased electrification of energy demand services while using low-carbon generation sources. Against the background of a growing share of variable renewable energy sources in the electricity mix, such as wind and solar energy, the challenges of temporal and spatial balancing of supply and demand is expected to increase in future. Temporal balancing arises due to the inevitable mismatch between renewable electricity production and demand as a consequence of day/night cycles, weather effects and seasonal differences, while spatial balancing is resulting from differences between the locations of electricity production and consumption. A future Swiss energy supply substantially relying on large shares of intermittent electricity generation (mainly photovoltaics and wind power) will need sufficient flexibility options. These must allow for shifting energy between day and night as well as from summer to winter: roof-top PV installations, which exhibit the largest potential for new renewable electricity generation in Switzerland by far, show a distinct seasonal peak in summer and daily peak at noon. These peaks in electricity generation – if not to be curtailed – must either be stored and re-used as electricity at times without sufficient generation, or transformed into other energy carriers such as gases and liquids, which can be used as e.g. transport or heating fuels. In addition to the flexible power plants operated in Switzerland already today, i.e. dam hydro plants and pump storage power plants, increasing the system’s flexibility and installing of further flexible power plants and storages becomes inevitable at very high shares of wind and solar PV electricity production in order to operate the electricity system cost-efficiently and to ensure the system’s secure operation. A related aspect concerning flexibility options is their location in the system, which, preferably, is close to the Solar-PV generation sites which are often embedded in the consumption centres. There are multiple technologies and measures to avoid CO2 emissions and to increase the energy system’s flexibility with Power-to-X (P2X) technologies representing one possible option of the technology portfolio. As defined in this White Paper, the terminology “P2X” refers to a class of technologies that use an electro-chemical process to convert electricity into a gaseous or liquid energy carrier or chemical product (and vice versa), and which may include energy storage. As such, P2X technology not only offers the possibility of enhanced sector coupling between the power sector and energy demand sectors but also to provide short and long-term supply and demand balancing. The objective of the White Paper its supplementary report is to collect the major existing P2X knowledge and to provide a synthesis and evaluation for the Swiss energy market. With the aim to derive a technical, economic and environmental assessment of P2X in the energy system, the gas market, the mobility sector and the electricity market are specifically investigated. Where possible, the White Paper also provides information on applications of P2X technologies in production industries. P2X technology stands for a cluster of technologies which use electricity and other inputs in order to produce other secondary energy carriers. Hence, P2X comprises multiple conversion pathways and energy carriers. In this White Paper we focus on the conversion to hydrogen as well as further gaseous and liquid energy carriers, such as methane, methanol, OME and FT-diesel, as well as the reelectrification where appropriate. For industrial P2X applications further energy carriers/conversion pathways might be included (depending on available information). Since this White Paper focusses on P2X technologies based on chemical conversion processes, technologies for the conversion of electricity with the purpose to produce heat as target product is not in the scope of this White Paper. The White Paper on Power-to-X Technology and its supplementary report emanate from the corresponding project of the Joint Activity of five Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER) funded by Innosuisse with complementary funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
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