Experiments as a means towards sustainable societies – Lessons learnt and future outlooks from a Finnish perspective

Antikainen, Riina; Alhola, Katriina; Jääskeläinen, Tiina

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.184

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“…The literature on experimentation and living labs sees learning, participation, communication, and changing existing structures and practices as enabling experimentation (Berg et al, 2014; Binder et al, 2011; Munthe‐Kaas, 2014; Nevens et al, 2013). As also argued by Antikainen et al (2017), funding, plurality of actors, and communication strategies can be both enabling and restricting at the same time. Our analysis of the Climate Street project shows a number of practical limitations that appear when we examine the interplay of these factors, as none of them alone can guarantee success of an experiment.…”

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“…Overall, there are a number of enabling factors behind experiments that have been identified in the literature, including economic viability, public funding technological development, impact assessments, and public policies and regulation (Antikainen et al, 2017). These factors can also be identified in our case.…”

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“…There has been increased interest in experimentation within energy policy sector in Finland recently (Kivimaa et al, 2017), as well as in terms of smaller scale projects (Antikainen et al, 2017; Ruggiero et al, 2018). This study is based on the Climate Street Project in Helsinki and Vantaa.…”

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“…Urban living labs are based on diverse forms of cooperation and partnerships, developing and testing new technologies, products, services, and ways of living to produce new solutions, for example, in attempting to tackle climate change (Evans & Karvonen, 2014). These living labs and experiments have also become increasingly popular in Finland, where several projects and studies have already been conducted (Antikainen, Alhola, & Jääskeläinen, 2017; Heiskanen et al, 2017; Heiskanen, Jalas, Rinkinen, & Tainio, 2015; Ruggiero et al, 2018).…”

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Experiments as a means towards sustainable societies – Lessons learnt and future outlooks from a Finnish perspective

Cited by 24 publications

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