Policy mixes for business model innovation: The case of off-grid energy for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa

Trotter, Philipp A.; Brophy, Aoife

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2022.104528

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“…Paper 5 demonstrates how participatory backcasting could be used as a method for engaging a local community in a long-term planning process and, through the visioning component of the methodology, broadening the scope beyond a single sector or technology. Finding ways to connect sector-specific and societal policy goals might create new avenues for addressing complex development challenges and new opportunities for the private and public sectors to collaborate (Trotter & Brophy, 2022). Asking service users about their broader needs 125 beyond a single sector or specific technology opens up ways to connect solutions and to engage the work of a diverse set of actors (Trotter & Brophy, 2022).…”

Section: Contributions and Implications For Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finding ways to connect sector-specific and societal policy goals might create new avenues for addressing complex development challenges and new opportunities for the private and public sectors to collaborate (Trotter & Brophy, 2022). Asking service users about their broader needs 125 beyond a single sector or specific technology opens up ways to connect solutions and to engage the work of a diverse set of actors (Trotter & Brophy, 2022).…”

Section: Contributions and Implications For Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Devising Capabilities : Service Design for Development Interventions

Lambe

2023

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Despite the progress in recent decades, one in ten people globally still live in extreme poverty, and this number is set to increase in the coming years. Designing interventions to improve well-being and livelihoods is challenging because poverty is multidimensional and plays out in complex, adaptive social-ecological systems, where behaviours and practices at the local level can have unintended consequences elsewhere in the system. In such contexts, linear approaches to designing development interventions are insufficient. Service design has emerged as a human-centred, integrative approach to designing services and systems in complex settings, but knowledge gaps remain on how service design can be used to address development challenges in the Global South. Without an understanding of how service design tools and approaches function in these contexts, there is a risk they might inadvertently cause harm to research participants and local communities. This thesis contributes new knowledge about how service design can be used to design development interventions in complex social-ecological contexts The research questions address three areas where service design could play a role: (i) how service design could be used to make sense of local level complexity and package this information for development programmers and policymakers; (ii) how service design could support local agency in the design of development projects; and (iii) how service design could be used to complement conventional methods of development research.The research questions were addressed using three case studies of development interventions. In two of the cases, a clean cookstove intervention in Kenya and an insurance product for small-scale farmers in Uganda, a service design approach was combined with quantitative methods. In the third case study, participatory backcasting was used to inform a long-term plan for energy transition for an off-grid community in Machakos, Kenya. A conceptual framework was first developed to support the use of service design to address development challenges in complex social-ecological systems. Elements of the framework were then applied in two of the case studies: the cookstoves and insurance studies. The thesis uses service design as an approach and practice, and the capabilities approach as the main conceptual and theoretical framing.I would like to thank my supervisors, Stefan Holmlid and Matthew Osborne. Stefan, thanks for agreeing to take me on and for being as curious as me about the role of service design in development settings. You embody the design research attitude-keeping inquiries open and experimental, rather than narrowing the focus. Although at times frustrating, this approach has broadened my horizons and made me a better thinker. To Matthew, my friend and co-pilot these past six years. Thanks for being at once rigorous and creative, and for taking a chance on these service design methods, and on me. Your clear and honest feedback helped me see the wood for the trees writing the kappa, and your sense...

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Section: Contributions and Implications For Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Contributions and Implications For Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Devising Capabilities : Service Design for Development Interventions

Lambe

2023

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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“…Finally, large systems possess technical advantages such as allowing multiple target temperature for blast freezing, ice production, and cold storage by combining several low‐GWP refrigerants, which is not possible in smaller applications (Saini et al., 2022). Pooling and selling multiple cooling services in one site implies added revenue streams for cooling providers which imply advantageous business model implications critical to scale such services in places with low cooling coverage (Trotter & Brophy, 2022). Finally, holistic approaches are key to study adequate end‐of‐life strategies, for instance deciding between retrofitting extant cooling systems with drop‐in low‐GWP refrigerants or completely replacing the cooling system, especially in remote parts of the world where access to low‐GWP refrigerants can be restricted (Hart et al., 2020).…”

Section: Assessing Food Cooling Research For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In another example, almost all SDG7 hits relate to renewable energy usage in cold chains, while energy access and affordability of energy services made up only 3% and less than 1% of keywords, respectively. Yet for most of the LICs in the sample, affordable access to modern energy is a critical issue, and one that can be solved in certain contexts when designing business model innovations which combine it with generating revenue from decentralized food cooling in an integrated fashion (Trotter & Brophy, 2022).…”

Section: Assessing Food Cooling Research For Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of supply chains for the sustainability transformation of global food systems: A large‐scale, systematic review of food cold chains

Trotter,

Becker,

Renaldi

et al. 2023

J of Industrial Ecology

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Global food systems need an urgent transformation to be compatible with sustainable development. While much of the recent academic discussion has focused on food production and consumption, food supply chains have received considerably less attention. Here, we conduct a large‐scale, systematic literature review of 48,014 academic articles to assess the links between the food cold chain literature and sustainable development. We find a multitude of deep links between food cooling and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but also identify underexplored areas of sustainable food cooling research regarding its (1) goals, (2) analytical depth, and (3) context specificity: There is a limited understanding how several relevant synergies between SDGs can be captured, how to best design sustainable food cold chains across multiple value chain stages, and how to scale sustainable cold chains in low‐income and lower‐middle‐income country contexts. We recommend to explicitly consider the salient interconnections between SDGs, increase the analytical depth by deploying more system‐level approaches across entire value chains, and focus on localized solutions in contexts where food supply chains are most underdeveloped.

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“…While government subsidies can help lower the sunk cost of the initial stage of technological innovation and encourage enterprises to carry out innovation activities, some businesses with the capacity to engage in technological innovation will also reduce their own innovation investment in light of the positive externalities and spillover effects of innovation results (Arza and López, 2021 ; Liu Q. et al, 2021 ; Fan et al, 2022 ; Jiang and Liu, 2022 ). Government subsidies, on the other hand, have a “signaling” function that allows businesses to get funding for innovation from more sources, increasing their capacity for technological innovation (Gao et al, 2021 ; Trotter and Brophy, 2022 ; Weiss and Nemeczek, 2022 ). Due to the insufficient financial market system and information asymmetry, bank credit primarily favors higher-paying applied research projects, while some high-risk basic research projects are difficult to finance (Kou et al, 2020 ; Cao et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Guidance' or ‘Misleading'? The government subsidy and the choice of enterprise innovation strategy

Ding

Wang²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Government subsidies have a direct impact on firms' innovation strategies. The game relationship between the government, the subsidized firm and its competitors under different subsidy strategies affects firms' innovation behavior and thus innovation performance. This paper uses a dynamic evolutionary game theory approach based on cost-benefit differences to analyse the mechanisms by which government subsidy strategies affect firms' innovation strategies. It is found that the marginal benefits of a firm's innovation strategy will directly affect the game outcome, indicating that the choice of innovation strategy depends on the maximization of individual firm's interests. At the same time, a firm's innovation strategy is influenced by the firm's own innovation ability and competitors' innovation strategy, and there are two game equilibria. Government subsidies have a positive contribution to the innovation strategy choice of subsidized firms, but have a crowding-out effect on non-subsidized competing firms. The strength of the penalty (the efficiency of the implementation of government subsidies), the marginal revenue of the subsidized firms' rational use of government subsidies and the competitors' strategic choices will directly affect the game outcome.

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Policy mixes for business model innovation: The case of off-grid energy for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 34 publications

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Devising Capabilities : Service Design for Development Interventions

Devising Capabilities : Service Design for Development Interventions

The role of supply chains for the sustainability transformation of global food systems: A large‐scale, systematic review of food cold chains

‘Guidance' or ‘Misleading'? The government subsidy and the choice of enterprise innovation strategy

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