Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions

Coenen, Lars; Benneworth, Paul Stephen; Truffer, Bernhard

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2012.02.014

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“…Scholars have developed the geographical dimension further (e.g. Binz et al, 2014;Coenen et al, 2012;Gosens et al, 2015;Schmidt and Dabur, 2014), studied the parallel development and competition of several technologies (Johnson and Jacobsson, 2001;Sandén and Hillman, 2011;Suurs and Hekkert, 2009a;Wirth and Markard, 2011) and linked TISs to wider policy settings (Kivimaa and Virkamäki, 2014;Markard et al, in press;McDowall et al, 2013). Some have also made a plea to combine the TIS framework with the Multi-Level Perspective to better capture the relationship between technology evolution and sectoral change (Markard and Truffer, 2008;Meelen and Farla, 2013).…”

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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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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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“…The quality of niche processes is decisive. The following processes have been highlighted in the literature as decisive for successful niche development: facilitating learning processes, the formation of broad and aligned networks and institutional embedding, parallel application of technologies in different geographical locations, voicing and shaping of expectations and visions, and the development of complementary technologies and infrastructures (Coenen, Benneworth and Truffer, 2012;Hoogma et al, 2002, p.30;Raven, 2005 4 Required industrial development including production and maintenance networks to facilitate diffusion of the new technology.…”

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Demonstration projects in transition processes to sustainable energy and transport

Klitkou

2016

IJFIP

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Abstract:In this paper, an analysis was made of the role of public support schemes funding demonstration, test and trial activities for sustainable development in energy and road transport. This paper presents the analysis of the effects of demonstration projects in transition processes to sustainable energy and transport in the Scandinavian countries on the development of knowledge networks and on interaction with users. The main purpose of this paper is: (1) to analyse the role of publically funded demonstration projects concerning changes in knowledge networks of project participants over time; (2) analysing policy priorities in collaboration by the public funding programmes. The paper addresses following research questions: (1) How successful are Scandinavian demonstration projects in contributing to the development of knowledge networks for sustainable energy and transport transitions? (2) Do Scandinavian demonstration programmes prioritise learning in international knowledge networks and user involvement? (3) How have demonstration projects contributed to transition processes? Keywords: demonstration projects; networking; social network analysis; sustainable energy; sustainable transport; transition processes. Demonstration projects in transition processes 97This paper is a revised and expanded version of a paper entitled 'Demonstration projects in transition processes to sustainable energy and transport ', presented

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“…In this sense, some of what are referred to here as 'external' factors are increasingly well addressed in the recent 'political turn' in sustainability transitions studies (Coenen, Benneworth, & Truffer, 2012;Geels, 2014; 8 Kern, 2012;Lockwood, 2014b;Meadowcroft, 2009;Normann, 2014). This involves attention extending away from narrower policy aspects alone, to also encompass wider political dimensions of regime dynamics and the actions of incumbents and new entrants (Baker, Newell, &Phillips, 2014;Geels, 2014;Hess, 2014;Meadowcroft, 2009;Smink, Hekkert, & Negro, 2013;Stirling, 2014a).…”

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“…And broader political theory also suggests balanced attention be given to processes and power gradients that transcend any particular picture of relevant sociotechnical regimes, but which are nonetheless less comprehensively expansive than 'the landscape'. These are the reasons for introducing the analytical device of the 'focal regime configuration' in order to recognise that what counts as any one regime may be expected to be radically polythetic and ambiguous and only poorly captured in an ontology of three nested 'levels' (Coenen et al, 2012). This is important, because there is in this field as elsewhere in social science, a typically much stronger reflexive relationship than is declared, between representations of the supposedly objective phenomena under scrutiny and the subjective circumstances of analysis (Žižek, 2006).…”

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“…It is only a relatively recent development in the sustainability transitions literature, that serious efforts have been made to build understandings of why such divergences exist between differing national contexts (Coenen et al, 2012). And, as is discussed in more detail below, the understanding of factors bearing upon different trajectories in relation specifically to civil nuclear power, remain a relatively understudied aspect of sustainability transitions research in general.…”

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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

SSRN Journal

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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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Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions

Cited by 983 publications

References 120 publications

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

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

Demonstration projects in transition processes to sustainable energy and transport

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

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