Potential transitions in the iron and steel industry in Sweden: Towards a hydrogen-based future?

Karakaya, Emrah; Nuur, Cali; Assbring, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.142

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“…The introduction of innovations depends on many factors, including strategic, operational, environmental, and social opportunities that work positively [35], but also those that impede their introduction, such as long investment cycles or high costs and potential loss of market share due to failures in the production process [36]. Especially in heavy industries, such as metallurgy, technology innovations are considered to be the most costly, risky, and time consuming [12]. Instead, referring to barriers, which are reported in the literature in the field of carrying out innovative activity, they may be combined most often into four groups: economic, related to the enterprise, legal, and other [17,18,37].…”

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“…From the organization's point of view, internal factors may result from a simple calculation of actions. Instead, external factors can result from regulations applicable to specific business activities [6] and environmental protection [7][8][9][10], level of competition, and the technology available on the market [11,12], as well as from prevailing trends, including corporate social responsibility and sustainable development [13]. It is necessary to emphasize that each factor resulting in the necessity for change, meaning to some extent improvement in the given area of activity, affects individual economic operators with a different force [11].…”

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“…In this paper, an attempt is made to study this issue in the area of the metal industry because it is an important part of industrialized economies and the metals' life cycle is repeatable. There is a cognitive gap in the scientific literature in the field of the metal industry [12]. It concerns the current results of the innovative activities of this industry sector.…”

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Management Premises and Barriers in the Metal Industry in Poland in the Context of Innovative Activity

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The metal industry is an important part of industrialized economies. It is not possible to imagine the development of such sectors as construction, automotive, or household appliance production without products of the metal sector. Moreover, metals are renewable raw materials, which is especially important for sustainable development. The main objective of the paper is to present management trends in metal market enterprises in Poland in the context of innovative activities. The paper characterizes this sector, presenting its importance for the Polish economy, and analyzes innovative activities of enterprises producing metals and metal products. To this end, domestic and international statistics were gathered and presented, supplemented with questionnaire surveys of a group of 112 enterprises from this sector. The presented results are broken down into small, medium-sized, and big enterprises, indicating differences in premises guiding enterprises when making managerial decisions in the field of innovation. Also, barriers to be overcome by metal sector enterprises differing in employment size are presented. The paper proves, e.g., that for all groups of surveyed enterprises, the process innovations are the most important, while product innovations are less important for small enterprises because this group of companies mostly manufactures very simple basic metal products.

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“…To gain a richer understanding of the long-term development of an innovation, taking account of the wider operational environment beyond the innovation system and the dynamics of change between the innovation system and the operational environment, is necessary. There are studies where ideas and views from the multi-level perspective (MLP) and TIS have been combined to capture the issues affecting the process of adopting an innovation beyond the elements of an innovation system (Bergek et al 2015;Haley 2015;Karakaya, Nuur, and Assbring 2018). However, focus in these studies has been on the introductory phase of an innovation, not on long-term processes with varying development phases.…”

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Empirical application of the multi-level perspective: tracing the history of ground-source heat pumps systems in Finland

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Hyysalo

2019

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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The emergence and evolution of more sustainable technologies and related industrial fields is a core concern for sustainability transitions scholars. This interest is accentuated as it has become evident that the upscaling of transition-relevant technologies follows different pathways in varying national and geographic contexts. The usual research approach to studying such industry-field dynamics in particular contexts has been to use the technological innovation systems (TIS) framework, focusing on the emergence of functioning TISs. The current calls for life-cycle TIS and the few existing examples of operationalizing the multi-level perspective (MLP) in a more focused way underscore the need to better account for the contextual specifics, contingencies, and later phases in the proliferation of transition technologies. We elaborate on the benefits of using the MLP in long-term analyses of transition technologies by examining the history of ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems in Finland from the era of the energy crises in the 1970s until the present day. The investigation reveals how the present success of GSHPs has not followed just from simple innovation-system dynamics or niche-regime landscape relations but is also a result of variations and extent of landscape pressure as well as unplanned support from neighboring niche technologies.

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“…Despite the original intent of pathways, their spatial translation is so far understudied. Instead, recent research has focused on the participatory mapping of pathways [4], the development of policy design criteria [5], the management of transition pathways [6], determining policy boundaries [3], the role of place-based social framing as a boundary for pathways [7], the social trade-offs underlying pathways [8], and quantifying the flexibility offered by pathways through real option analysis [9][10][11]. Many policy actions in these studies have long-term implications for the spatial configuration of a location and its surrounding landscape.…”

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Despite rising attention to pathways thinking in multiple domains such as climate adaptation, energy supply planning, and flood risk management, their spatial translation is so far understudied. We set out to study how spatial design based on pathways thinking can help develop more adaptive and sustainable landscapes. Using landscape analysis, field research, and research-through-designing in a case study on climate resilience in Boston (USA), we argue for better understanding of the spatial and design consequences of pathways in general. Our results indicate that pathways can be spatially translated, demanding landscape-informed choices when sequencing different policy actions. We found that spatial designing makes the landscape consequences of pathways transparent and enables policy-makers to replace the input of policy actions with spatial interventions, select pathways according to different underlying design strategies, use the mapped pathways to initiate an iterative research-through-designing process to test and inform different designs, and spatially visualize the pathways and possible sequences of actions. We conclude that policy-makers should be cognizant about the spatial implications of pathways and offer directions to enrich applications of pathways thinking for achieving adaptive and sustainable landscapes.

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Potential transitions in the iron and steel industry in Sweden: Towards a hydrogen-based future?

Cited by 132 publications

References 44 publications

Management Premises and Barriers in the Metal Industry in Poland in the Context of Innovative Activity

Management Premises and Barriers in the Metal Industry in Poland in the Context of Innovative Activity

Empirical application of the multi-level perspective: tracing the history of ground-source heat pumps systems in Finland

Designing with Pathways: A Spatial Design Approach for Adaptive and Sustainable Landscapes

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