Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Article	Citations
Mission-oriented innovation systems	158
Closing the green finance gap – A systems perspective	158
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion	150
Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn?	132
Understanding the protein transition: The rise of plant-based meat substitutes	124
Forever stuck in old ways? Pluralising incumbencies in sustainability transitions	98
Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions	98
Geographies of transition—From topical concerns to theoretical engagement: A comment on the transitions research agenda	97
Understanding and governing learning in sustainability transitions: A review	91
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts	80
Conceptualising the systemic activities of intermediaries in sustainability transitions	78
The role of local government greening policies in the transition towards nature-based cities	67
Nature-based innovation systems	64
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing	64
Risk-benefit perceptions and public acceptance of Carbon Capture and Utilization	61
Barriers to and consequences of a solar-based energy transition in Greece	59
Engaging with multi-system interactions in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda	59
Opening up the black box of learning-by-doing in sustainability transitions	53
Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions	53
EU industrial policy: Between modernization and transformation of the automotive industry	52
Pathways for the transition of the Polish power sector and associated risks	48
Making sustainability transitions research policy-relevant: Challenges at the science-policy interface	48
The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda	46
A review of linking models and socio-technical transitions theories for energy and climate solutions	46
Shaping sustainable markets—A conceptual framework illustrated by the case of biogas in Sweden	45

Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review	43
Shifting political power in an era of electricity decentralization: Rescaling, reorganization and battles for influence	42
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems	41
China’s post-COVID-19 stimulus: No Green New Deal in sight	41
Sustainability transitions in the agri-food sector: How ecology affects transition dynamics	41
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation	41
Thinking about individual actor-level perspectives in sociotechnical transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda	40
Endogenous regime change: Lessons from transition pathways in Dutch dairy farming	40
The study of institutional entrepreneurship and its implications for transition studies	40
Entrepreneurship and the sustainable bioeconomy transformation	39
On digitalization and sustainability transitions	39
Leaders and followers in finance mobilization for renewable energy in Germany and China	38
Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse	37
Heating in Great Britain: An incumbent discourse coalition resists an electrifying future	37
Relating financial systems to sustainability transitions: Challenges, demands and design features	37
Can living labs offer a pathway to support local agri-food sustainability transitions?	37
Explaining inclusivity in energy transitions: Local and community energy in Aotearoa New Zealand	36
Are battery electric vehicles the future? An uncertainty comparison with hydrogen and combustion engines	35
Market formation in the context of transitions: A comment on the transitions agenda	35
Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research	34
Intermediaries in accelerating transitions: Introduction to the special issue	34
Business model innovation in demand response firms: Beyond the niche-regime dichotomy	33
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	33
A framework to explain the role of boundary objects in sustainability transitions	33
Challenges for implementing renewable energy in a cooperative-driven off-grid system in the Philippines	33
Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough	33
Sustainability transitions and strategic action fields: A literature review and discussion	32
A social innovation perspective on dietary transitions: Diffusion of vegetarianism and veganism in Austria	32
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	32
Justice aspects of flexible household electricity consumption in future smart energy systems	32
Regional lead markets for environmental innovation	32
A dramaturgy of critical moments in transition: Understanding the dynamics of conflict in socio-political change	32
Climate-change induced uncertainties, risks and opportunities for the coal-based region of Silesia: Stakeholders' perspectives	31
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	31
Positioning of systemic intermediaries in sustainability transitions: Between storylines and speech acts	29
Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories	29
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions	29
The fragility of regional energy transitions	29
International markets and technological innovation systems: The case of offshore wind	29
Inter-niche competition on ice? Socio-technical drivers, benefits and barriers of the electric vehicle transition in Iceland	29
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions	29
Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda	28
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	28
Nurturing nature: Exploring socio-spatial conditions for urban experimentation	28
Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research	27
Who learns what in sustainability transitions?	27
The regional facet of a global innovation system: Exploring the spatiality of resource formation in the value chain for onshore wind energy	27
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	27
China’s role in the next phase of the energy transition: Contributions to global niche formation in the Concentrated Solar Power sector	27
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity	26

Corporate-NGO partnership for environmentally sustainable innovation	26
Why do companies’ institutional strategies differ across cities? A cross-case analysis of bike sharing in Shanghai & Amsterdam	26
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia	25
Diffusion intermediaries: A taxonomy based on renewable electricity technology in Sweden	25
The importance of stakeholders in scoping risk assessments—Lessons from low-carbon transitions	25
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen	25
Starting low, reaching high? Sequencing in EU climate and energy policies	25
Participatory modeling for transition governance: Linking methods to process phases	25
Towards methodological diversity in sustainability transitions research? Comparing recent developments (2016-2019) with the past (before 2016)	24
Strategic niche management in transition pathways: Telework advocacy as groundwork for an incremental transformation	24
Behaviour in sustainability transitions: A mixed methods literature review	23
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization	23
A reflexive perspective for sustainability assumptions in transition studies	23
Let's focus more on negative trends: A comment on the transitions research agenda	23
Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions	23
Do existing regional specialisations stimulate or hinder diversification into cleantech?	23
Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project	22
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions	22
Learning about learning in sustainability transitions	22
Dynamic capabilities and strategic reorientation towards decarbonisation in Baltic Sea shipping	22
Shifting gears on sustainable transport transitions: Stakeholder perspectives on e-bikes in Toronto, Canada	21
Niche politics: Biogas, technological flexibility and the economisation of resource recovery	21
Institutional work in diverse niche contexts: The case of low-carbon housing in the Netherlands	21
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	21
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways	21
The outcomes of directionality: Towards a morphology of sociotechnical systems	21
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	21
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway	20
Intermediaries to accelerate the diffusion of wooden multi-storey construction in Finland	20
Diffusion of environmental innovations: Sector differences and explanation range of factors	20
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	20
Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review	20
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy	20
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK	19
Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research	19
Complexity, tensions, and ambiguity of intermediation in a transition context: The case of Connecting Mobility	19
An evolving risk perspective for policy instrument choice in sustainability transitions	18
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions	18
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy	18
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition	18
Intermediating policy for transitions towards net-zero energy buildings	18
Global pressures vs. local embeddedness: the de- and restabilization of the Estonian oil shale industry in response to climate change (1995–2016)	18
Lessons from Bali for small-scale biogas development in Indonesia	18
Capturing the distributional impacts of long-term low-carbon transitions	18
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy	18
An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space	17
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research	17
Business model innovation as a process for transforming user mobility practices	17
Influence of policy discourse networks on local energy transitions	17
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	17
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels	17
Legitimizing transformative government	17
The potential of sustainability-oriented digital platform multinationals: A comment on the transitions research agenda	17
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis	17
Modelling the socio-political feasibility of energy transition with system dynamics	17
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions	17
Exploring incumbents’ agency: Institutional work by grid operators in decentralized energy innovations	17
Institutional capacity to integrate ‘radical’ perspectives on sustainability in small municipalities: experiences from Sweden	17
Capturing the micro-level of intermediation in transitions: Comparing ethnographic and interview methods	16
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems	16
Zero carbon homes in the UK? Analysing the co-evolution of policy mix and socio-technical system	16
Directionality of transitions in space: Diverging trajectories of electric mobility and autonomous driving in urban and rural settlement structures	16
Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions	16
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	16
Conceptualising institutional complexity in the upscaling of community enterprises: Lessons from renewable energy and carsharing	16
Technology phase-out as unravelling of socio-technical configurations: Cloud seeding case	16
“It’s not talked about”: The risk of failure in practice in sustainability experiments	16
Towards a global political economy of transitions: a comment on the transitions research agenda	15
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk	15
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	15
A social learning and transition perspective on a climate change project in South Africa	15
Windows of opportunity for catching up in formative clean-tech sectors and the rise of China in concentrated solar power	15
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions	15
Market intermediation and its embeddedness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition	15
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	15
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes	15
A practical tool for analyzing socio-technical transitions	15
Anticipated emotions and resistance to innovations: the case of p2p car sharing	14
Expectation dynamics and niche acceleration in China’s wind and solar power development	14
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit	14

Skills deployment for a ‘just’ net zero energy transition	14
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	14
Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: The case of Poland	14
Municipal utilities and electric cooperatives in the United States: Interpretive frames, strategic actions, and place-specific transitions	14
From leadership to followership: A suggestion for interdisciplinary theorising of mainstream actor reorientation in sustainability transitions	14
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	14
Cycling as a service assessed from a combined business-model and transitions perspective	13
Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities	13
Advocacy coalitions in the acceleration phase of the European energy transition	13
Learning for transitions: An experiential learning strategy for urban experiments	13
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	13
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents	13
Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments	13
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems	13
Learning to find a way out of non-sustainable systems	12
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision	12
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	12
Power from above? Assessing actor-related barriers to the implementation of trolley truck technology in Germany	12
Transitioning from coal: Toward a renewables-based socio-technical regime in Saskatchewan	12
Wider learning outcomes of European climate change adaptation projects: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	12
What interests do intermediaries prioritize during wind- and solar project development?	12
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition	11
Towards sustainability in the port sector: The role of intermediation in transition work	11
The emergence of a global innovation system – A case study from the urban water sector	11
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	11
Limits of the corporate-led market approach to off-grid energy access: A review	11
A brake or an accelerator? The role of law in sustainability transitions	11
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions	11
Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation	11
Earth system interventions as technologies of the Anthropocene	11
Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions	11
Neglected systems and theorizing: A comment on the transitions research agenda	10
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies	10
Actors in multi-sector transitions - discourse analysis on hydrogen in Germany	10
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions	10
Modernization of Russian district heating systems with the help of biomass energy – A Gordian knot?	10
A new hybrid approach for evaluating technology risks and opportunities in the energy transition in Ireland	10
Megaprojects: Examining their governance and sociotechnical transitions dynamics	10
Risks and opportunities associated with decarbonising Rotterdam’s industrial cluster	10
Risk assessment of the low-carbon transition of Austria’s steel and electricity sectors	10
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	10
Navigating institutional complexity in socio-technical transitions	10
Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’	10
Mere deployment of renewables or industry formation, too? Exploring the role of advocacy communities for the Argentinean energy policy mix	10
Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions?	10
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management	10
Saskatchewan’s energy future: Risk and pathways analysis	9
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	9
Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology	9
Social enterprises towards a sustainable business system: A model of institutional dynamics	9
A mechanism-based explanation for blocking mechanisms in technological innovation systems	9
Fostering a local energy transition in a post-socialist policy setting	9
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	9
Intermediating the energy transition across spatial boundaries: Cases of Sweden and Spain	9
The Energy Futures Lab: A case study of justice in energy transitions	9
A participatory systems mapping approach for sustainability transitions: Insights from an experience in the tourism sector in Portugal	9
“Making energy transition work”: Bricolage in Austrian regions’ path-creation	8
Actors in transitions: narratives of roles and change in the German e-mobility transition	8
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	8
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement	8
Incumbency and political compromises: Opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?	8
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions	8
Flickering guiding light from the International Maritime Organisation's policy mix	8
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach	8
Celebrating a decade of EIST: What's next for transition studies?	8
A field perspective on sustainability transitions: The case of religious organizations	8
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	8
Lewin's field theory as a lens for understanding incumbent actors’ agency in sustainability transitions	8
Psychology: The missing link in transitions research	8
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	8
The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi	8
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions	8
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	8
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection	8
Assessing risks of low-carbon transition pathways	8
Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment of expanding photovoltaics in the Netherlands	8
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia	8
Historical transitions of Western Australia’s electricity system, 1880-2016	8