Chapter 2 - The experience curve: concept, history, methods, and issues
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2019
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Louwen, Atse
Lacerda, Juliana Subtil
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Junginger, Martin
Louwen, Atse
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Abstract
The experience curve is a tool that has a long history and has been broadly applied to a large selection of technologies over almost a century. Building on knowledge of learning processes, such as learning-by-doing, learning-by-searching, and upscaling, it represents technological progress and the resulting decline in technology cost in a simple mathematical form. In this chapter, we discuss the history and origins of the experience curve concept and deliberate on data collection and estimation of experience-curve parameters. Subsequently, we show some main applications of experience curves and discuss key issues that are linked to experience curves.
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Technological learning, experience curve, learning curve, learning-by-doing, learning-by-searching, one-factor experience curve, two-factor experience curve, multifactor experience curve, Taverne
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Louwen, A & Lacerda, J S 2019, Chapter 2 - The experience curve: concept, history, methods, and issues. in M Junginger & A Louwen (eds), Technological Learning in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy System. Academic Press, pp. 9-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818762-3.00002-9