Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board121
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship63
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?60
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue59
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems58
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)58
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making56
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy53
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators52
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition51
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research51
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics49
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies49
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations46
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries46
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales43
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs43
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions42
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions42
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion40
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart39
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India38
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy37
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change37
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare36
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis35
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond34
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities34
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes33
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany33
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions32
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’32
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions32
Editorial Board32
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?30
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework30
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen30
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions30
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism29
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia29
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe29
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector29
A comparative and dynamic analysis of political party positions on energy technologies29
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels29
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems29
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems28
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities27
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions26
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways26
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study25
Towards transformative leapfrogging25
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives25
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households25
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach25
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy25
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale24
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies24
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany24
Editorial Board24
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level24
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors23
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition23
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?23
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?23
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts22
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems22
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation22
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector22
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging22
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance22
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector21
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting21
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability21
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo21
Editorial Board21
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project20
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts20
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective20
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open20
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation20
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive19
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks19
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK19
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition19
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security18
Designing low carbon innovation organisations: the Energy Technologies Institute experience18
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor18
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations18
Editorial Board18
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions17
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China17
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway17
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems16
Editorial Board16
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions16
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector16
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy16
Editorial Board16
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy16
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it15
Publisher’s note - Change of Editor-in-Chief15
Celebrating a decade of EIST: What's next for transition studies?15
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection15
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk15
Editorial Board15
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe15
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom15
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review15
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission15
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions14
Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions14
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach14
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems14
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution14
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition14
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy14
Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions14
Introduction to “Zooming in and out: Special issue on local transition governance”14
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization14
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland14
Legitimizing transformative government13
International organisations in global sustainability transitions13
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry13
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality13
The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi13
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions13
What's underneath? Social skills throughout sustainability transitions13
Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power12
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management12
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis12
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization12
Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations12
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi12
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition12
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions12
Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study12
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy11
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia11
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality11
On digitalization and sustainability transitions11
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building11
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions11
Trust gaps in energy transitions: Japan’s National Deliberative Poll after Fukushima11
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions11
Lessons from European transformative policies11
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration11
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe11
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions11
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure10
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators10
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis10
Editorial Board10
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance10
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity10
Tackling intersecting climate change and biodiversity emergencies: Opportunities for sustainability transitions research10
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria10
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard10
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen10
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space9
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms9
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view9
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture9
Dialectic tensions driving niche creation – A case study of a local energy system9
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation9
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions9
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments9
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”9
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents9
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions9
Editorial Board8
Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit8
Common-pool resources and governance in sustainability transitions8
Business model innovation in demand response firms: Beyond the niche-regime dichotomy8
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition8
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies8
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?8
Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes8
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes8
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review8
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research8
Towards sustainability in the port sector: The role of intermediation in transition work8
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges8
Business model innovation as a process for transforming user mobility practices8
Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation8
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions8
Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’7
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes7
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction7
Mobility protests in the Netherlands of the 1970s: Activism, innovation, and transitions7
Pathways and harbours for the translocal diffusion of sustainability innovations in Europe7
Risk blindness in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands hinders Canada's decarbonization7
Innovation in the long run: Perspectives on technological transitions in Sweden 1908–20167
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas7
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach7
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions7
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration7
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions7
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms7
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda7
Windows of opportunity for catching up in formative clean-tech sectors and the rise of China in concentrated solar power7
Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?7
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