design Denmark had adopted, innovators in the US pursued a higher-level design. As their Danish counterparts were experiencing a slow, incremental process, firms in the US were engaged in a technological race. The Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) and later the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NERL), which tried to develop a knowledge base, together played an important role in the breakthrough approach. However, the gap between fundamental scientific principles and high-tech design made the…
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