Shaping selection environments for industrial catch-up and sustainability transitions: A systemic perspective on endogenizing windows of opportunity

Towards sustainable urban basic services in low-income countries: A Technological Innovation System analysis of sanitation value chains in Nairobi

“…for urine diverting toilets) or process specifications (e.g. guidelines for innovative treatment of waste) (see also, Yap and Truffer (2019). Additionally, increased codification might help to mobilize new actors (e.g.…”

Place-dependence of renewable energy technologies

“…They explain that, besides technological breakthroughs, other forces such as major shifts in market structures and large shifts in politics, could also open such windows of opportunity. Yap and Truffer (2019) further argued that the latter two processes are especially important for the catchingup process in clean energy technologies.…”

“…Second, for middle-and lowincome countries, the domestic market for renewables of a country helps better utilize global knowledge. This has implications for the catching-up strategy of latecomer countries: Sustainability transitions open new opportunities for latecomer countries to catch up by engaging with the global innovation systems of clean energy technologies (Mathews, 2013;Meckling and Hughes, 2018;Perez, 2016) and the creation of domestic markets can help latecomer countries to seize these opportunities (Binz et al, 2017a;Yap and Truffer, 2019).…”

“…Market formation and development can increase the public acceptance of innovation, as well as provides legitimacy and guidance for the innovation process itself (Frenken, 2017;Weber and Rohracher, 2012). Through active shaping of the selection environment and guiding the search process for both local and global resources, latecomer countries can endogenize the windows of opportunity in catching-up process (Yap and Truffer, 2019).…”

On the application of the window of opportunity and complex network to risk analysis of process plants operations during a pandemic

“…The concept of window of opportunity (WO) is mostly used in the medical field to indicate the best time to treat a disease ( Ismail et al, 2017 ; Langer et al, 2011 ; Sweeney, 1997 ; Andersen, 2003 ). WO represents the best time to invest in a business and the best time to catch up with competitors ( Kwak and Yoon, 2020 ; Yap and Truffer, 2019 ). In this research, the time from the accident precursor stage to the time before the accident termination is defined as the WO representing the best time for the system to prevent and control accidents.…”