Transforming intermediaries to accelerate sustainability transitions: The case of the World Bank Group and clean energy technology deployment
持続可能性移行を加速する仲介機関の変革：世界銀行グループとクリーンエネルギー技術導入の事例 (AI 翻訳)
A. Pineda, Tobias S. Schmidt, Florian Egli
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日本語
本論文は、持続可能性移行における既存仲介機関の役割と進化を、世界銀行グループ（WBG）と途上国での再生可能エネルギー技術支援に焦点を当てて分析する。「適合性」の枠組みを提案し、技術特性・体制条件・仲介構造の整合が支援パターンを形成することを示す。WBGは技術の成熟に応じて仲介モードを変化させ、知識創出や能力構築を通じて適合性を向上させる。商業的に不利な技術は支援が不十分である一方、内部の変革主体が仲介機関の変革を促進できるが、制度的経路依存性が限界となる。
English
This paper analyzes the roles and evolution of incumbent intermediaries in sustainability transitions, focusing on the World Bank Group (WBG) and its support for renewable energy technologies in developing countries. It proposes a 'fitness' framework showing how alignment between technology characteristics, regime conditions, and intermediary structures shapes support patterns. The WBG shifts between intermediary modes as technologies mature, improving fitness through knowledge creation and capacity building. Technologies that are less commercially viable remain under-supported, while internal change agents can drive transformation, though bounded by institutional path dependencies.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本のGX政策では、国際開発金融機関の役割は直接的な政策連動は薄いが、日本のODAやJICAの関与、途上国での再エネ支援の枠組みに示唆を与える。また、日本の金融機関が国際的な移行金融に参画する際の仲介機能の理解に有用。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to global GX scholarship by examining how development finance institutions like the World Bank Group act as intermediaries in clean energy transitions. It offers insights for transition finance frameworks, particularly for scaling renewable energy in developing countries, and highlights the adaptive capabilities needed for financial intermediaries to support sustainability transitions effectively.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a framework for analyzing intermediary roles in sustainability transitions, useful for studying finance regimes and technology deployment.
🏢実務担当者:Offers insights for development finance institutions and corporate sustainability teams on how to adapt intermediary strategies to technology maturity and context.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights the importance of supporting less commercially viable technologies and the role of internal change agents in transforming incumbent intermediaries.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This paper investigates the roles and evolution of incumbent intermediaries in sustainability transitions, focusing on the World Bank Group (WBG) and its support for renewable energy technologies in developing countries. We propose a framework analyzing how “fitness”—the alignment between technology characteristics, regime conditions, and intermediary structures—shapes patterns of intermediary support. We find that the WBG's success in scaling up support for technologies depends on this alignment, as well as on efforts to improve fitness through knowledge creation, capacity building, and complementary infrastructure investments. The WBG operates across a spectrum of intermediary modes, shifting between them as technologies mature and transition contexts evolve. Aside from acting as an “in-between”, the WBG also engages in “intermediation-by-doing”, deploying financial and technical inputs to generate catalytic effects. Yet technologies that are less commercially viable or which require context-specific adaptation remain under-supported despite potential development benefits. We show that internal change agents can push incumbent intermediaries toward transformation, though the scope of change may be bounded by institutional path dependencies. These findings advance understanding of how incumbent intermediaries in the finance regime navigate diverse transition settings, highlighting that becoming fit for purpose requires adaptive capabilities and the flexibility to shift roles as fitness conditions change.
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