Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship82
Editorial Board79
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue71
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia61
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems60
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?58
Time on hold: Justice, governance, and the politics of transitions in critical mineral frontiers57
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition55
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion52
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector49
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries48
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India46
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions44
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales44
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions43
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building42
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations42
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies39
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change39
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling38
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs38
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions38
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China38
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system37
Editorial Board37
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities37
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities36
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system36
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’35
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited35
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption33
Socio-technical pathways of automotive decarbonization: evidence from patent network analysis in Germany and Japan33
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains31
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies31
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement31
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism30
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry30
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures30
More of the same? The structural dimension of incumbency in the formation of hydrogen expectations in Chile and the UK30
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions29
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions29
Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation29
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen29
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?28
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels27
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework27
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies27
How narratives construct wickedness in mission-oriented innovation policy problems26
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households26
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies26
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe25
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities25
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe25
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts24
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management24
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories24
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms23
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways23
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy23
Editorial Board22
From concept to practice: How agricultural and forestry living labs are implemented within European funded projects22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition22
Towards transformative leapfrogging22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance21
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece21
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?21
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition21
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector20
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?20
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts20
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions20
Accelerating sustainable housing transitions: A case study of the window industry in Australia19
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia19
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation19
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging18
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany18
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors18
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios18
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies18
Editorial Board18
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy18
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale18
Unpacking the territorial roots of barriers to circular bioeconomy transitions in agri-food waste systems: evidence from Réunion Island18
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach18
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit17
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo17
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway17
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology17
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks17
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive16
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability16
The anatomy of failed historical transitions: An approach to expand the study of socio-technical change16
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open16
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective16
A technological innovation system in revival: Nuclear energy in Sweden16
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation16
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway15
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions15
From lab to fork: Directionality in the European innovation system for precision fermentation-derived food ingredients15
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)15
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance?15
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China15
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions15
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy14
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks14
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion14
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK14
Corrigendum to “Does Religious Difference Have an Impact on the Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Ecovillages Worldwide” [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transiti14
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?14
Editorial Board14
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor14
The geo-economization of sustainability transitions: Spatial dynamics and trade-offs between sovereignty and sustainability13
Rivalry or mutualism? Cross-regional dynamics of China’s wind and photovoltaic power technology diffusion13
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom13
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it13
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Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry13
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector13
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy13
Organising the subjects of responsible consumption: Analysing the locus of responsibility for transitions in the UK food sector (2007-2021)13
Editorial Board12
Entangling abilities and supporting environments: A contingency analysis of enabling conditions for multi-system interaction12
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems12
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection12
Counter-intermediation strategies in transition policy-making: Exploration of the global plastics treaty negotiations12
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy12
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission12
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe12
Exploring sufficiency in meat diets: are consumers ready for consumption corridors?12
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review12
Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions12
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition11
Private intermediaries in multi-system coupling: Wood construction in Norway and Finland11
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions11
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland11
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach11
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy11
Towards a lexicon for just sustainability transitions: thinking with capabilities, epistemology, intersectionality, spatiality, and temporality11
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution11
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support11
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Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power10
Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity10
Legal institutionalism and the role of law in market transformation during sustainability transitions: exploring alternative ontological perspectives10
Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam10
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization10
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry10
The dynamics of participation: A complex adaptive systems perspective10
Interactions between Sustainability assessment and Sustainability transitions research: The benefits of combining approaches10
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality10
Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations10
Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study10
Lessons from European transformative policies10
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality10
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria9
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi9
Modelling in support of community-empowered energy transitions: Transforming a coal- and carbon-intensive region into a municipality of energy citizens9
Incorporating insights from global production network and value chain research into the sustainability transitions field9
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard9
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators9
Governing complexity: A comparative assessment of four governance models with applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation9
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe9
Business model innovation in food system transitions: An exploratory case study of fermentation firms9
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance9
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions9
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building9
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration9
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis9
Does religious difference have an impact on the diffusion of sustainable innovations? A mixed-methods analysis of ecovillages worldwide8
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Orchestrating ecologies of transition intermediation: insights from a Dutch governmental policy program for urban transformation8
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments8
Upscaling niche innovations by circular start-ups for sustainability transitions8
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?8
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions8
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture8
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure8
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space8
Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit8
Modelling energy justice: Reconceptualizing the modelling process to include procedural and recognition justice8
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions8
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation8
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”8
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view8
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The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies8
Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes8
Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes7
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas7
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda7
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Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’7
Anticipatory governance of a maritime mission using a real-time mission-oriented transition assessment7
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels7
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions7
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions7
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction7
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach7
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions7
Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design7
From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: Mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies7
Public clients creating lead markets for innovation towards sustainability transitions: Market-shaping in the Swedish construction sector7
Full steam astern? Sustainable retro-innovation in the maritime shipping sector7
Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland7
Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries7
Rise of the rhizome: Conceptualizing how coastal communities enact change via transition mechanisms7
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes6
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions6
(Re)framing technology: The evolution from biogas to biomethane in Austria6
Building momentum for a ‘policy turn’ in sustainability transitions: Lessons from Canada to consolidate strengths and bridge science-policy divides6
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions6
Mnemonic agency in the Dutch energy transition to gas and electricity6
Cumulative processes in multi-system transitions: expanding value chains and limits to growth for sustainable alternatives6
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration6
More than just transition: Uncovering heterogeneous socio-economic outcomes of climate policies6
Policy coherence of low-emission transport transition in the Global South: The case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh6
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden6
On the gendering of the early American electric car6
Responses to occupational identity threats in sustainability transitions: A qualitative study of Dutch farmers6
How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector6
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions6
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review6
Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden6
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration6
The roles of agri-food tech start-up ecosystems in strategic niche management for food system transitions6
Navigating the emotional landscape of urban futures: Exploring the role of feelings in participatory backcasting for net zero transitions6
Cross-sectoral transition work at the heart of the regime: Transforming incumbent systems in utility infrastructure planning in Amsterdam6
Can grassroots movements in water conflicts drive socio-technical transitions in water management systems?6
Applying a conflict typology to ecologies of intermediation: the case of a transitions intermediary in Spain6
Multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions: The example of chemical regions6
Infrastructure in Transitions: A Systematic Review of How Infrastructure Influences and is Influenced by Sustainability Transitions6
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong6
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms6
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