Alka T A, Raman Raghu, Suresh M
Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, 641112, India.
Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, 690546, Kerala, India.
Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 23;15(1):14138. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-98725-2.
Energy technology plays a crucial role in driving innovative and sustainable solutions in the evolving energy sector. This study addresses the fragmented understanding of the regulatory, economic, environmental, and social enablers essential for technological development in sustainable energy enterprises (SEEs). The study addresses the gap in the literature concerning how social, economic, technological, and environmental factors interrelate to influence technology innovation development. This research aims to identify and rank critical success factors (CSFs), analyze their interdependencies, and examine their driving power and dependence. Data were collected from eleven energy entrepreneurs, and the relationships among eight factors were evaluated via total interpretive structural modeling (TISM), and cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) was employed to categorize autonomous, driving, dependent, and linkage factors. The results highlight market dynamics as the foundation factor for technological development, whereas long-term sustainability emerges as the most dependent factor. Risk management, resilience, partnerships, and collaboration are identified as key linkage factors that influence SEE innovation. While the small sample size is a limitation, the findings provide valuable insights for energy entrepreneurs, practitioners, and policymakers by identifying CSFs that support informed decision-making, resource allocation, and strategy development for effective technology development. The study recommends fostering partnerships, adopting cost-reduction approaches to enhance performance, and investing in continuous research and development to ensure technological feasibility, differentiation, and market adaptability. The theoretical contribution lies in bridging research gaps through empirical insights, integrating existing theories, and paving the way for future studies in the growing field of sustainable energy innovation.
能源技术在推动不断发展的能源领域的创新和可持续解决方案方面发挥着关键作用。本研究解决了对可持续能源企业（SEEs）技术发展至关重要的监管、经济、环境和社会推动因素的碎片化理解问题。该研究填补了文献中关于社会、经济、技术和环境因素如何相互关联以影响技术创新发展的空白。本研究旨在识别关键成功因素（CSFs）并对其进行排名，分析它们的相互依存关系，并考察它们的驱动力和依赖性。从11位能源企业家那里收集了数据，通过总体解释结构模型（TISM）评估了八个因素之间的关系，并采用交叉影响矩阵乘法应用于分类（MICMAC）来对自主、驱动、依赖和联动因素进行分类。结果突出了市场动态作为技术发展的基础因素，而长期可持续性则成为最具依赖性的因素。风险管理、恢复力、伙伴关系和协作被确定为影响SEEs创新的关键联动因素。虽然小样本规模是一个限制因素，但研究结果通过识别支持明智决策、资源分配和有效技术开发的战略制定的关键成功因素，为能源企业家、从业者和政策制定者提供了有价值的见解。该研究建议促进伙伴关系，采用降低成本的方法来提高绩效，并投资于持续研发以确保技术可行性、差异化和市场适应性。理论贡献在于通过实证见解弥合研究差距，整合现有理论，并为可持续能源创新这一不断发展的领域的未来研究铺平道路。
