Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management

Voß, Jan-Peter; Smith, Adrian; Grin, John

doi:10.1007/s11077-009-9103-5

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“…To change a technological regime, gradual processes are necessary that fundamentally change both society and societal subsystems (Kemp and Loorbach 2003). New institutions need to be established and existing ones changed (Voß, Smith, and Grin 2009). Ultimately, the rules and norms in society determine collective action, such as embracing a new technology (Van de Ven 1993).…”

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Combining the technological innovation systems framework with the entrepreneurs’ perspective on innovation

Planko

Cramer

Hekkert

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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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For their technological sustainability innovations to become successful, entrepreneurs can strategically shape the technological field in which they are involved. The technological innovation systems (TISs) literature has generated valuable insights into the processes which need to be stimulated for the successful development and implementation of innovative sustainability technologies. To explore the applicability of the TIS framework from the perspective of entrepreneurs, we conducted a case study in the Dutch smart grids sector. We found that the TIS framework generally matches the perspectives of entrepreneurs. For its use by entrepreneurs, we suggest a slight adaptation of this framework. The process 'Market formation' needs to be divided into processes that are driven by the government and processes that are driven by entrepreneurs. There should be a greater emphasis on collaborative marketing, on changing user behaviour and preferences and on the development of fair and feasible business models. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Combining the technological innovation systems framework with the entrepreneurs’ perspective on innovation

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Cramer

Hekkert

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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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“…Recently, concerns have arisen about the political implications of reflexive governance in general, and TM and AM in particular (Shove and Walker 2007, Armitage 2008, Kern and Smith 2008, Voß et al 2009a, Smith and Stirling 2010. As empirical research into the practice of participation, experimentation, and collective learning has shown, reflexive governance designs interact with realworld political contexts that influence their functioning and impair their effectiveness (Lee 1993, McLain and Lee 1996, Walters 1997, Conley and Moote 2003, Hahn et al 2006, Armitage et al 2007b, Kemp et al 2007b, Plummer and FitzGibbon 2007, Walters 2007, Allan and Stankey 2009, Kallis et al 2009.…”

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The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management

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2011

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ABSTRACT. New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change. Adaptive management and transition management are two examples that evolved from the analysis of social-ecological and sociotechnical systems, respectively. Both feature strategies of collective experimentation and learning. In this paper, we ask how these two designs of reflexive governance consider politics. Based on a framework of different dimensions and levels of politics, we show that they are mainly concerned with problem solving by a focal process, but conflict and asymmetric power relations, as well as the embedding of processes within broader political contexts, are neglected. We suggest two routes for integrating politics into the design of reflexive governance: (1) recognize the politics of learning for sustainable development and develop safeguards against domination and capture by powerful actors, and (2) systematically consider the embedding of governance designs in political contexts and their ongoing dynamics for political fit.

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“…The ongoing policy processes in The Netherlands had drawn international attention and (Voß et al 2009. The latter series was co-funded by the KSI network.…”

Section: Transition Management and The Fourth National Environmental mentioning

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“…Some particular points of critique were: (1) a managerial approach of establishing a new social order that is implicit in transition management, ignoring a diversity of publicly relevant views, values and concerns , (2) the simplicity and selectivity of the general framing of socio-technical change and sustainability that underlie the model of transition management (Smith et al 2005, Smith and Stirling 2007, Smith and Stirling 2010, (3) a democratic deficit in conceptualising and conducting the policy (Hendriks and Grin 2007, Hendriks 2008, Hendriks 2009), (4) naivety with respect to the politics of learning and experimenting for socio-technical change (Meadowcroft 2005, Meadowcroft 2007, Meadowcroft 2009, Smith and Stirling 2010, Voß and Bornemann 2011) and a neglect of political dynamics that interfere with the process of policy design and implementation (Kern and Smith 2008, Kern and Howlett 2009, Voß et al 2009, and (5), especially with regard to the Dutch energy transition, a widespread critical assessment referring to capture by incumbent industrial interests and a competing neoliberal discourse coalition Smith 2008, Smith and). …”

Section: Transition Management and The Fourth National Environmental mentioning

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Performative policy studies: realizing “transition management”

Voß

2014

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The paper analyses the relations between policy studies and public policy. It traces how they are constitutively entangled. Conceptually, this builds on a notion of performativity that has been developed in science studies. The performativity of policy studies is explored in a case study of the innovation journey of 'transition management' as a model for governing sociotechnical change. The paper shows how practices of knowledge production and policy-making take shape in interaction with the model and how a specialised research field co-evolves with political alliances and policy programmes. They interact in the process of realising transition management, both by establishing the model as collective knowledge and by materially enacting it. In this interweaving with public policy policy studies contribute to creating the reality that they describe. The conclusions discuss 'realising' as a mode of governance.

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Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management

Abstract: Policy design, Sustainable development, Reflexive governance, Transition management, Socio-technical change, Long-term planning, Deliberation, Politics of learning, Innovation in governance,

Cited by 381 publications

References 70 publications

Combining the technological innovation systems framework with the entrepreneurs’ perspective on innovation

Combining the technological innovation systems framework with the entrepreneurs’ perspective on innovation

The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management

Performative policy studies: realizing “transition management”

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