Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Article	Citations
Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions	120
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts	96
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review	78
Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions	78
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing	77
EU industrial policy: Between modernization and transformation of the automotive industry	65
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation	51
Entrepreneurship and the sustainable bioeconomy transformation	48
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems	48
On digitalization and sustainability transitions	45
Heating in Great Britain: An incumbent discourse coalition resists an electrifying future	44
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	43
Can living labs offer a pathway to support local agri-food sustainability transitions?	43
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	42
Leaders and followers in finance mobilization for renewable energy in Germany and China	41
Regional lead markets for environmental innovation	40
Sustainability transitions and strategic action fields: A literature review and discussion	40
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions	40
Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research	39
Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions	39
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	39
Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse	38
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	38
Behaviour in sustainability transitions: A mixed methods literature review	38
Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories	37

The fragility of regional energy transitions	37
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions	37
Justice aspects of flexible household electricity consumption in future smart energy systems	36
Business model innovation in demand response firms: Beyond the niche-regime dichotomy	36
Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research	36
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity	36
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	35
A dramaturgy of critical moments in transition: Understanding the dynamics of conflict in socio-political change	35
An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space	30
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	30
Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review	30
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions	30
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen	30
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia	29
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization	28
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	28
Starting low, reaching high? Sequencing in EU climate and energy policies	28
Conceptualising institutional complexity in the upscaling of community enterprises: Lessons from renewable energy and carsharing	27
Towards methodological diversity in sustainability transitions research? Comparing recent developments (2016-2019) with the past (before 2016)	27
Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research	27
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy	26
A reflexive perspective for sustainability assumptions in transition studies	26
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	26
The outcomes of directionality: Towards a morphology of sociotechnical systems	26
Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project	25
Legitimizing transformative government	24
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway	24
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy	24
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels	23
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk	23
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions	23
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research	23
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK	23
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	23
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems	23
Dynamic capabilities and strategic reorientation towards decarbonisation in Baltic Sea shipping	23
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	22
Diffusion of environmental innovations: Sector differences and explanation range of factors	22
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes	21
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy	21
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition	21
Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities	21
Directionality of transitions in space: Diverging trajectories of electric mobility and autonomous driving in urban and rural settlement structures	21
Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions?	21
Modelling the socio-political feasibility of energy transition with system dynamics	20
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	20
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions	20
Skills deployment for a ‘just’ net zero energy transition	20
Advocacy coalitions in the acceleration phase of the European energy transition	20
Exploring incumbents’ agency: Institutional work by grid operators in decentralized energy innovations	19

Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis	19
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	19
Limits of the corporate-led market approach to off-grid energy access: A review	19
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	19
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms	19
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions	19
Business model innovation as a process for transforming user mobility practices	18
Market intermediation and its embeddedness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition	18
A practical tool for analyzing socio-technical transitions	18
Technology phase-out as unravelling of socio-technical configurations: Cloud seeding case	18
Influence of policy discourse networks on local energy transitions	18
Learning to find a way out of non-sustainable systems	17
Anticipated emotions and resistance to innovations: the case of p2p car sharing	17
Beyond the North-South divide: The political economy and multi-level governance of international low-carbon technology transfer in China	17
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management	17
Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology	17
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	17
Windows of opportunity for catching up in formative clean-tech sectors and the rise of China in concentrated solar power	17
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	17
Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: The case of Poland	16
Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments	16
Towards sustainability in the port sector: The role of intermediation in transition work	16
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies	16
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit	16
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	16
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection	16
Lewin's field theory as a lens for understanding incumbent actors’ agency in sustainability transitions	16
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	16
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents	15
Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions	15
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems	15
Learning for transitions: An experiential learning strategy for urban experiments	15
From leadership to followership: A suggestion for interdisciplinary theorising of mainstream actor reorientation in sustainability transitions	15
Actors in multi-sector transitions - discourse analysis on hydrogen in Germany	15
The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi	14
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	14
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions	14
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	14
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	14
A brake or an accelerator? The role of law in sustainability transitions	14
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions	14
Earth system interventions as technologies of the Anthropocene	14
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	14
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach	13
Megaprojects: Examining their governance and sociotechnical transitions dynamics	13
The emergence of a global innovation system – A case study from the urban water sector	13
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions	13
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision	13
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	13
Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation	13
A participatory systems mapping approach for sustainability transitions: Insights from an experience in the tourism sector in Portugal	13
A constructivist approach to the spatial organization of transformative innovation policy	12
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	12
Navigating institutional complexity in socio-technical transitions	12
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	12
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions	12
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition	12
Incumbency and political compromises: Opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?	12
Assessing mission-specific innovation systems: Towards an analytical framework	11
Energy ageism: The framework of the problem and the challenges of a just energy transition	11
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms	11
A field perspective on sustainability transitions: The case of religious organizations	11
Psychology: The missing link in transitions research	11
Exploring the possibilities for deliberately cultivating more effective ecologies of intermediation	11
The Energy Futures Lab: A case study of justice in energy transitions	11
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	11
Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’	11
Social enterprises towards a sustainable business system: A model of institutional dynamics	11
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	11
Actors in transitions: narratives of roles and change in the German e-mobility transition	11
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	11
How power and politics shape niche-regime interactions: A view from the Global South	11
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions	11
Complexity challenges for transition policy: lessons from coastal shipping in Norway	10
Environmental innovations in the EU: A club convergence analysis of the eco-innovation index and driving factors of the clusters	10
Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil	10
Applying complex adaptive systems and risk society theory to understand energy transitions	10
Flickering guiding light from the International Maritime Organisation's policy mix	10
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality	10
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	10

A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	10
A mechanism-based explanation for blocking mechanisms in technological innovation systems	10
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	10
Niches, narratives, and national policy: How India developed off-grid solar for rural electrification	10
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	9
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration	9
Institutional work as a key ingredient of food innovation success: The case of plant-based proteins	9
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom	9
How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector	9
Innovation in the long run: Perspectives on technological transitions in Sweden 1908–2016	9
Introduction to “Zooming in and out: Special issue on local transition governance”	9
Climate Crisis at City Hall: How Japanese communities mobilize to eliminate emissions	9
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	9
Towards transformative leapfrogging	9
Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions	9
Workers as actors at the micro-level of sustainability transitions: A systematic literature review	8
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction	8
Celebrating a decade of EIST: What's next for transition studies?	8
Dialectic tensions driving niche creation – A case study of a local energy system	8
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia	8
Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?	8
Community participation in electricity markets: The impact of market organisation	8
Unravelling institutional work patterns: Planning offshore wind farms in contested space	8
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany	8
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement	8
Mobility protests in the Netherlands of the 1970s: Activism, innovation, and transitions	8
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges	8
The role of governments in uncertainty orchestration in market formation for sustainability transitions	8
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review	8
The evolution of cooperative electric carsharing in Germany and the role of intermediaries	7
Common-pool resources and governance in sustainability transitions	7
People's perceptions of energy technologies in an era of rapid transformation	7
De-centering transitions: Low-carbon innovation from the peripheries	7
Transformative policy mix or policy pandemonium? Insights from the Climate Smart Agriculture policy mix in Costa Rica	7
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	7
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation	7
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	7
Transition ‘backlash’: Towards explanation, governance and critical understanding	7
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	7
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution	7
The impact of supply structure on solar home system installations in rural off-grid areas	7
Leaders or networkers? The role of mayors in renewable energy transition	7
Trust gaps in energy transitions: Japan’s National Deliberative Poll after Fukushima	6
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975	6
Pathways and harbours for the translocal diffusion of sustainability innovations in Europe	6
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions	6
Coping with transition pain: An emotions perspective on phase-outs in sustainability transitions	6
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector	6
Risk blindness in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands hinders Canada's decarbonization	6
Policy instruments for green-growth of clusters: Implications from an agent-based model	6
What's underneath? Social skills throughout sustainability transitions	6
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions	6
Veganism and plant-based protein crops: Contentious visioning almost obstructing a transition	6
The power of power markets: Zonal market designs in advancing energy transitions	6
A comparative and dynamic analysis of political party positions on energy technologies	6