Enabling Japan’s Low Emissions Technology Collaboration with Southeast Asia: The Role of Co-innovation and Co-benefits

Abstract

Technology collaboration between developed and developing countries plays a major role in low carbon development as well as climate mitigation. This chapter discusses the limitations and challenges to conventional technology transfer between countries and explores opportunities for co-innovation—an approach where countries potentially partner in jointly developing and scaling up clean technologies. While co-innovation can deliver climate co-benefits by maximizing the opportunities for collaboration on the advanced technology front, co-benefits in turn incentivize the co-innovation process. The chapter demonstrates examples of technology collaboration between Japan and countries in Southeast Asia and highlights that scaling up such collaborations will be beneficial for all the stakeholders.