Ioana Petrescu, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

An energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is recognized as a critical way to achieve GHG mitigation goals. However, renewable energy deployment must be scaled up at least six times faster to keep global warming below hazardous levels.

A vast literature on technology transitions within industries suggests that early phases of new technologies are marked by periods of intense experimentation, but we know little about the conditions under which these periods emerge.

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