The evaluation of innovation policy efficiency for the emerging energy industry in China: Wind industry

This article studies the present situation of wind industry development in China and concludes that all the regions can be divided into four groups depending on development stage. Then it compares the role of policy instruments stimulating long-term technological change in the wind industry in Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, and Hainan. It concludes that Inner Mongolia and Jiangsu´s broad portfolio of policies and measures has been well adapted to the different stages in the development of their wind industry which has contributed to a high degree of innovation, diffusion and establishment of domestic markets, and-in recent years-increasingly successful self-creations in technology from the introduction of technology. Hainan´s wind energy policies and measures have been weaker than in Inner Mongolia and Jiangsu and decreasing in stability over time, resulting in the loss of stimulation in demand. They have not sufficiently covered the wind industry´s perceived needs on different stages in the development of new technology nor have they stimulated continuous improvement, learning, and new product development in industry. This has been part of the reason as to why the extent of innovation and diffusion of wind technology in Hainan is limited.