Competing expectations: the case of hydrogen storage technologies

H. van Lente; S. Bakker

doi:10.1080/09537325.2010.496283

Competing expectations: the case of hydrogen storage technologies

H. van Lente^*, S. Bakker

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Abstract

The development of a wide range of hydrogen technologies is linked to the promise of hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier and the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. These promising technologies, however, have to compete among each other in terms of visibility and credibility. The paper introduces and discusses the notion of competing expectations. To trace the competition between three on-board storage technologies, 263 articles on 'hydrogen' and 'storage' are analysed with the help of Stephen Toulmin's scheme of argumentation. The paper concludes with a characterisation of the 'expectations' phase of competing technologies.

Original language	English
Article number	924423667
Pages (from-to)	693-709
Number of pages	17
Journal	Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2010.496283
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

Keywords

COMMUNITIES
ECONOMY
METAL HYDRIDE
SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
VEHICLES
VISIONS
auto industry
case study
emerging technologies
expectations of technological change
science studies
technology and innovation studies

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