Why?
This resource has been created in response to the strongly expressed concerns of managers about issues on the ground were largely ignored, despite contributing significantly to cost and risk. Many of these issues were evident in oil and gas and automotive clusters as well as renewable energy, contributing to avoidable cost and risk.
In a field such as renewable energy, with multiple players, significant unknowns, and many competing interests, surely it makes sense to identify recurring risks early and adopt tried and tested solutions form other clusters and other sectors?
Re-use or Re-invention?
Designing in user knowledge and user agency can cut costs, cut risk and add value in large scale infrastructure design and implementation. Our current focus is on leveraging this network of users and data in relation to renewable energy cluster development, to avoid reinventing the wheel, and facilitate the adoption of solutions from other clusters.
We have worked jointly on researching and publishing the most recurring barriers to cluster development over more than a decade, starting at a time when SMEs and renewable energy were to a large extent side-lined in practice, despite their contribution to regional employment, skills and innovation (with shining exceptions such as the North Sea PILOT project).
About Us
Dr Jenny Ure is a researcher and a psychologist researching recurring barriers in large scale system design and implementation - particularly in renewable energy clusters in Europe, Australia, Canada, California and Latin America, and with a focus on SMEs in particular. She has a particular interest the sharing of strategies which align social, technical and organisational architectures to advantage, and a concern that the stakeholders in many clusters are incentivised to compete rather than collaborate. She has published widely on these issues in e-Business and e-Health infrastructure.
Professor Gudrun Jaegersberg is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, and has worked in management education and industry in Germany, Italy and Brazil specialising in cross cultural issues in globalisation. Her early work focused on knowledge management in the competitiveness of the automotive supply chain in Saxony, German and Paraná, Brazil. Over the last decade she has worked on knowledge sharing within and between renewable energy clusters in eleven country clusters, identifying recurring barriers, as well as opportunities to collaborate across clusters.
Book and Journal Publications
Recurring Barriers in Green Energy Clusters: Executive Summary
Recurring Barriers to Cluster Development in Eleven Countries (Springer Book)
Barriers to Knowledge Sharing & Stakeholder Alignment in Solar Energy Clusters: Learning from Other Regions.
Invisible Architecture: Aligning People Processes and Technology.
Why?
This resource has been created in response to the strongly expressed concerns of managers about issues on the ground were largely ignored, despite contributing significantly to cost and risk. Many of these issues were evident in oil and gas and automotive clusters as well as renewable energy, contributing to avoidable cost and risk.
In a field such as renewable energy, with multiple players, significant unknowns, and many competing interests, surely it makes sense to identify recurring risks early and adopt tried and tested solutions form other clusters and other sectors?
Re-use or Re-invention?
Designing in user knowledge and user agency can cut costs, cut risk and add value in large scale infrastructure design and implementation. Our current focus is on leveraging this network of users and data in relation to renewable energy cluster development, to avoid reinventing the wheel, and facilitate the adoption of solutions from other clusters.
We have worked jointly on researching and publishing the most recurring barriers to cluster development over more than a decade, starting at a time when SMEs and renewable energy were to a large extent side-lined in practice, despite their contribution to regional employment, skills and innovation (with shining exceptions such as the North Sea PILOT project).
About Us
Dr Jenny Ure is a researcher and a psychologist researching recurring barriers in large scale system design and implementation - particularly in renewable energy clusters in Europe, Australia, Canada, California and Latin America, and with a focus on SMEs in particular. She has a particular interest the sharing of strategies which align social, technical and organisational architectures to advantage, and a concern that the stakeholders in many clusters are incentivised to compete rather than collaborate. She has published widely on these issues in e-Business and e-Health infrastructure.
Professor Gudrun Jaegersberg is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, and has worked in management education and industry in Germany, Italy and Brazil specialising in cross cultural issues in globalisation. Her early work focused on knowledge management in the competitiveness of the automotive supply chain in Saxony, German and Paraná, Brazil. Over the last decade she has worked on knowledge sharing within and between renewable energy clusters in eleven country clusters, identifying recurring barriers, as well as opportunities to collaborate across clusters.
Book and Journal Publications
Recurring Barriers in Green Energy Clusters: Executive Summary
Recurring Barriers to Cluster Development in Eleven Countries (Springer Book)
Barriers to Knowledge Sharing & Stakeholder Alignment in Solar Energy Clusters: Learning from Other Regions.
Invisible Architecture: Aligning People Processes and Technology.
