Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study

Geels, Frank W.

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“…These different contexts can be conceptualized as organizational fields (Wooten and Hoffmann, 2008). An example of identifying the institutional coherence in economic sectors like energy supply, transportation, health care or agriculture, is provided by the concept of a socio-technical regime (Geels, 2002;Rip and Kemp, 1998). Regimes correspond to the strongly institutionalized core of an organizational field, which may encompass dominant technological paradigms but also specific professional identities, commonly held beliefs, a sectoral culture, dominant societal discourses or shared problem agendas which give rise to a specific mix of institutional logics (Fuenfschilling and Truffer, 2014).…”

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Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Bergek

Hekkert

Jacobsson

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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This paper addresses interactions between technological innovation systems (TIS) and wider "context structures". While TIS studies have always considered various kinds of contextual influences, we suggest that the TIS framework can be further strengthened by a more elaborated conceptualization of TIS context structures and TIS-context interactions. For that purpose, we identify and discuss four especially important types of context structures: technological, sectoral, geographical and political. For each of these, we provide examples of different ways in which context structures can interact with a focal TIS and how our understanding of TIS dynamics is enhanced by considering them explicitly. Lessons for analysts are given and a research agenda is outlined.

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Section: Understanding Tis Context Structures and Interactionsmentioning

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Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Bergek

Hekkert

Jacobsson

et al. 2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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348

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“…In order to be able to address this concern, this study suggests that most technology development practices be understood first of all as multi-aspect systems-involving different peoples, institutions, companies, and infrastructural entities (Barkane and Ginters 2011;Geels 2002Geels , 2004Geels , 2005aGeels and Kemp 2007;Musango and Brent 2011). Such typically 'socio-technical systems' have essential features, among which the following can be highlighted as relating to this research:…”

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Technology Development as a Normative Practice: A Meaning-Based Approach to Learning About Values in Engineering—Damming as a Case Study

2017

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Engineering, as a complex and multidimensional practice of technology development, has long been a source of ethical concerns. These concerns have been approached from various perspectives. There are ongoing debates in the literature of the philosophy of engineering/technology about how to organize an optimized view of the values entailed in technology development processes. However, these debates deliver little in the way of a concrete rationale or framework that could comprehensively describe different types of engineering values and their multi-aspect interrelations in real engineering practices. Approaching engineering values from a meaning-based perspective, as in this paper, can be a reliable method of tackling such a controversial problem. This paper therefore proposes that technology development be considered a systemic normative practice and attempts to provide a comprehensive view of various built-in values, their different origins and features, and a way of prioritizing them in real engineering processes. Studying two cases of the Zayandeh Rood Dam and the Abbasi Dam will lead to practical insights into how to understand norms in technology development and incorporate them into engineering practice.

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“…A similar point might also usefully be made with respect to other concepts used above in setting the scene for this study -like those developed in what is termed sociotechnical 'regime theory' (Rip and Kemp, 1998;. Geels, 2002;Smith & Raven 2012].…”

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“…Whilst taking the 'focal regime configuration' around nuclear power as the primary point of enquiry, the present comparative case study, also seeks to speak directly to wider themes in the field of 'sustainability transitions' as addressed by the MLP. The MLP is of key relevance here, because its central aims are so strongly identified with this interest -in seeking to influence "…the possibilities for inducing a regime shift in energy technology away from fossil fuels" (Rip and Kemp, 1998); explaining how "…technical change is locked into dominant technological regimes" (Kemp et al, 1998: 175), and answering the question of "...how we can understand inertia, and how it is overcome" (Geels, 2002(Geels, : 1258. The German Energiewende is arguably the most pertinent example of a currently occurring politically deliberate 'regime shift'.…”

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Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

Johnstone

Stirling

2015

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SWPS 2015-18 ( June) DisclaimerThe works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers shall be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to one of the Editors, who will process them and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor. Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process. AbstractThis paper focuses on arguably the single most striking contrast in contemporary major energy politics in Europe (and even the developed world as a whole): the starkly differing civil nuclear policies of Germany and the UK. Germany is seeking entirely to phase out nuclear power by 2022. Yet the UK advocates a 'nuclear renaissance', promoting the most ambitious new nuclear construction programme in Western Europe. Here, this paper poses a simple yet quite fundamental question: what are the particular divergent conditions most strongly implicated in the contrasting developments in these two countries. With nuclear playing such an iconic role in historical discussions over technological continuity and transformation, answering this may assist in wider understandings of sociotechnical incumbency and discontinuity in the burgeoning field of 'sustainability transitions'. To this end, an 'abductive' approach is taken: deploying nine potentially relevant criteria for understanding the different directions pursued in Germany and the UK. Together constituted by 30 parameters spanning literatures related to socio-technical regimes in general as well as nuclear technology in particular, the criteria are divided into those that are 'internal' and 'external' to the 'focal regime configuration' of nuclear power and associated 'challenger technologies' like renewables. It is 'internal' criteria that are emphasised in conventional sociotechnical regime theory, with 'external' criteria relatively less well explored. Asking under each criterion whether attempted discontinuation of nuclear power would be more likely in Germany or the UK, a clear picture emerges. 'Internal' criteria suggest attempted nuclear discontinuation should be more likely in the UK than in Germany -the reverse of what is occurring. 'External' criteria are more aligned with observed dynamics -especially those relating to military nuclear commitments and broader 'qualities of democracy'. Despite many differences of framing concerning exactly what constitutes 'democracy', a rich political science literature on t...

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Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study

Cited by 4,801 publications

References 24 publications

Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Technology Development as a Normative Practice: A Meaning-Based Approach to Learning About Values in Engineering—Damming as a Case Study

Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany and the UK: From 'Regimes' to 'Democracies' in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

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