The Long Institute Lecture Series
presents

Renewable Futures and
Industrial Legacies:

Wind and Solar Energy in China,
Germany, and the United States

Presented by Jonas Nahm
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University

This lecture examines technological innovation in renewable energy sectors as a window into state-firm relations under conditions of globalization. Governments around the world have used remarkably similar industrial policies to encourage domestic wind and solar industries, yet firms in different economies have responded to renewable energy policy by establishing distinct innovative capabilities. Drawing on more than two years of field research in China, Germany and the United States, Nahm will show how firms respond to sectoral industrial policy by incrementally building on local industrial legacies, even in global, emerging industries such as wind and solar. Read more »

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The Long Institute Lecture Series on
Chinese Law,
Business and Society

The Long Institute Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society is organized by the UCI Long US-China Institute. The series offers presentations of state-of-the-art research on how law, business and society interact in China or in relation to China. The series provides a platform for learning and discussing how legal institutions in the world’s largest legal system and second largest economy shape and are shaped by market and social forces.

2015-16 Lecture Schedule