Government behind the wheel and backseat driving: co-ordination and informational challenges of voluntary partnerships as programmes for stimulating sustainable technology.

Greener Management International, September, 2004 by White, Charles David

Over the past decade governments in the US, as well as in other industrial countries, have experimented with voluntary technology partnership as an alternative style of policy implementation. To examine their efficacy for sustainable technology innovation, we conducted case-study research on two non-regulatory technology-change initiatives, each implemented by the US Department of Energy as public-private partnerships. The first case and the focus of this paper is Clean Cities, a programme designed to stimulate deployment of non-gasoline, non-diesel automobiles. The second case, used to expand and extend insights from the first, is Building America, a programme designed to stimulate more sustainable housing design and construction. Both cases reinforce the perception...

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