Abstract
This paper explores two Korean cases of Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) to address climate change in developing countries. The target technologies were carbon capture and utilization (CCU) in a project in Bantayan Island, Philippines, and waste-to-energy (WTE) technology in Santiago, Dominican Republic. These projects were conducted by the Republic of Korea’s Green Technology Center. The study analyses the rationale of KTT (“international environment” and “motives”), its objects (technology types) and activities (“informational contacts”, “research activities”, “consulting” and “education and training”). It concludes that the KTT efforts of these two case studies can be characterized as “uninformed transfer”, given a lack of information on situational factors. In particular, these projects faced cooperation problems between national and local governments in the target countries due to different levels of commitment among different stakeholder groups. In conclusion, this study identifies the implications of an acceptability gap between national and local actors in renewable energy projects of KTT.
Highlights
The urgent need for climate technology transfer and financial assistance from developed countries to developing countries have drawn international attention since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement of December 2015
This study found that the research on Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) takes two general perspectives: focus on the characteristics KTT (e.g., Kogut and Zander [22], Nonaka and Takeuchi [32]) and focus on the processes and interactions involved in KTT (e.g., Argote and Ingram [7], Arvantis et al [1], Simonin [33], Szulanski [23,34])
“Activities related to the technical facilities”, one of five categories of the activities of KTT based on the Arvantis et al.’s [1] result, is not included into the element of the above criteria since much less importance was given to it through the survey of Arvantis et al [1], and it is not consistent in the context of the project cases that this study takes on (based on the focus group interview (FGI) results)
Summary
The urgent need for climate technology transfer and financial assistance from developed countries to developing countries have drawn international attention since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement of December 2015. This study aims to explain and analyse the Korean exploration of KTT to address climate change in developing countries It notes both cases (projects) by the Green Technology Center in South Korea (GTC-K) in the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. After concluding the feasibility study results and Green Climate Fund (GCF) funding proposal, GTC-K withdrew from both the CCU and WTE projects without entering the project initiation phase This paper approaches these case studies with a qualitative methodology including multiple methods. They were carried out both in the form of traditional face to face meetings via the focus group interviews (FGI) and the individual in-depth interviews with related staff and experts (eight respondents) who were actively involved in both projects.
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