E. M. Rogers’s scientific contributions

... This approach recognizes that innovations diffuse through both technological and social systems [65]. Diffusion of innovations theory, which originated from Rogers [66], was selected as it explains the diffusion portion of the technology innovation system, and it has recently been expanded to include a range of explanatory factors [67][68][69]. The technology innovation system literature was employed as it addresses the emergence and supply of socio-technical innovations depends on institutions, networks and actors across the research, development, deployment, diffusion stages [70], that provide the know-how that support them [71], and require supports to challenge the established socio-technical fossil fuel regime [35,72]. ...

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Insights to accelerate place-based at scale renewable energy landscapes: An analytical framework to typify the emergence of renewable energy clusters along the energy value chain