Today, fostering gas-fired power plants is recognised as a significant step towards a low-carbon economy. Gas fired-power plants are favoured over other types of fossil-fuelledudpower plants due to their various advantages, including lower emissions, flexibility of technology, higher efficiency, short construction times and lower capital investment. The gas turbine is the main machine and the most technologically advanced part of a gas-fired power plant. There have been a limited number of companies in industrialised countries that have developed these sophisticated technologies over the last 50 years. The global market for land-based gas turbines has an oligopolistic structure. The evolution of these technologies has been greatly influenced by countries’ government policies, and in particular energy policies. In this light, one question is: to what extent have industrialisingudcountries built their technological capabilities in gas turbines? Consequently, one focus of interest here is the way in which, and the extent to which, industrialising countries have synthesised their indigenous technology development efforts with overseas technology inflows. Countries such as Iran, India and China, which have large and growing domestic electricity markets, are appropriate candidates for research in order to understand the possible technological gaps and associated dynamics between the industrialised and industrialising worlds.ududTo answer these questions, this thesis research deals with Iran’s gas turbine industry and, for the first time, systematically examines this industry in the context of a developing country. The study delves deeply into the dynamics of interactions between indigenous technology development and overseas technology inflows. It casts light upon the influences, challenges, and difficulties associated with technological catching-up processes. The framework of the analysis is based on an extensive literature review on technological catch-up, the substitution/complementarity debate, and the gas turbine industry. The framework was operationalized through qualitative interviews as well as supplementary documents. The thesis uses a ‘dynamic approach’, and argues that understanding the interaction processes cannot be reduced to examining only the type of relationship between the two technology sources. Instead, far more attention needs to be devoted to analysing theudcomplexity and associated influences on this relationship. The thesis also provides empirical insights into the development of gas turbine capabilities in India and China, the two largest emerging economies. It reveals that a high level of state involvement in developing countries is a prominent feature of the industry. It also demonstrates that the evolution of the industry also in both developed and developing countries is closely interrelated with each country’s national energy policies.
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机译：如今，发展燃气发电厂被认为是迈向低碳经济的重要一步。天然气发电厂比其他类型的化石燃料发电厂更受青睐，因为它们具有排放量低，技术灵活，效率高，施工时间短和资本投资少等优点。燃气轮机是燃气发电厂的主机和技术最先进的部分。在过去的50年中，工业化国家中开发这种复杂技术的公司数量很少。陆地燃气涡轮机的全球市场具有寡头垄断的结构。这些技术的发展在很大程度上受到国家政府政策，特别是能源政策的影响。有鉴于此，一个问题是：工业化国家在多大程度上在燃气轮机中建立了自己的技术能力？因此，这里关注的焦点是工业化国家将其本国技术开发工作与海外技术流入相结合的方式和程度。伊朗，印度和中国等拥有庞大且不断增长的国内电力市场的国家是适合进行研究的候选人，以便了解工业化和工业化世界之间可能存在的技术差距和相关动态。 ud ud要回答这些问题，论文研究涉及伊朗的燃气轮机行业，并且首次在发展中国家的背景下系统地考察了该行业。该研究深入研究了本地技术发展与海外技术流入之间相互作用的动态。它阐明了与技术追赶过程相关的影响，挑战和困难。分析的框架基于有关技术追赶，替代/互补性辩论以及燃气轮机行业的广泛文献综述。通过定性访谈和补充文件使该框架得以实施。本文使用“动态方法”，并指出，不能仅通过检查两种技术源之间的关系类型来简化对交互过程的理解。取而代之的是，需要更多的注意力来分析复杂性及其对这种关系的影响。本文还提供了对印度和中国这两个最大的新兴经济体燃气轮机能力发展的实证见解。它表明，国家在发展中国家的高度参与是该行业的突出特征。它还表明，发达国家和发展中国家的工业发展也与每个国家的国家能源政策密切相关。
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