Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	111
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	72
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	72
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	69
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	65
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	65
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	65
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	54
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	53
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	52
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	52
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	51
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	49
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	46
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	43
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector	41
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	39
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	38
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	38
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited	36
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	36
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Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	35
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	35

Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	35
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system	34
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	34
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities	34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	33
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	32
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	31
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement	31
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption	31
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	31
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	31
Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation	30
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	30
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	30
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	29
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	28
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	28
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry	28
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	28
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	28
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	28
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies	28
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	27
Towards transformative leapfrogging	27
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	27
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	26
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	26
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	25
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	25
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	25
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	24
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions	24
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe	24
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	24
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Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	24
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	24
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	22
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios	22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	22
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	22
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	21
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece	21
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	21
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	21
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	21

Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	21
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	20
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	20
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	20
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	20
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition	20
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	19
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	19
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	19
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	19
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Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	18
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	18
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	17
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	17
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	17
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	17
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	17
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	17
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	17
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	17
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	16
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy	16
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	16
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions	16
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	15
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)	15
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems	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 China	15
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Organising the subjects of responsible consumption: Analysing the locus of responsibility for transitions in the UK food sector (2007-2021)	15
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	15
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	15
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 Transiti	15
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	15
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review	14
Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry	14
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom	14
Rivalry or mutualism? Cross-regional dynamics of China’s wind and photovoltaic power technology diffusion	14
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector	14
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it	14
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection	14
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	14
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	14
Exploring sufficiency in meat diets: are consumers ready for consumption corridors?	13
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems	13
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Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions	13
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition	13
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe	13
Towards a lexicon for just sustainability transitions: thinking with capabilities, epistemology, intersectionality, spatiality, and temporality	13
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution	13
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission	13
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy	12
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions	12
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization	12
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland	12
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support	12
Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations	12
Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity	12
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach	12
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality	12
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Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam	12
Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study	11
Interactions between Sustainability assessment and Sustainability transitions research: The benefits of combining approaches	11
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions	11
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality	11
Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power	11
Lessons from European transformative policies	11
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi	11
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building	11
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry	11
Legal institutionalism and the role of law in market transformation during sustainability transitions: exploring alternative ontological perspectives	11
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe	11
Modelling in support of community-empowered energy transitions: Transforming a coal- and carbon-intensive region into a municipality of energy citizens	11
Incorporating insights from global production network and value chain research into the sustainability transitions field	10
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis	10

Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration	10
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure	10
Business model innovation in food system transitions: An exploratory case study of fermentation firms	10
Governing complexity: A comparative assessment of four governance models with applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation	10
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard	10
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria	10
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance	10
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators	9
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Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space	9
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”	9
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture	9
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions	9
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view	9
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments	9
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation	9
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions	8
Public clients creating lead markets for innovation towards sustainability transitions: Market-shaping in the Swedish construction sector	8
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Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes	8
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms	8
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda	8
Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland	8
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach	8
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions	8
Modelling energy justice: Reconceptualizing the modelling process to include procedural and recognition justice	8
Does religious difference have an impact on the diffusion of sustainable innovations? A mixed-methods analysis of ecovillages worldwide	8
Upscaling niche innovations by circular start-ups for sustainability transitions	8
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction	8
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?	8
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies	8
Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit	8
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges	8
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review	8
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms	7
Policy coherence of low-emission transport transition in the Global South: The case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh	7
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas	7
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions	7
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration	7
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration	7
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels	7
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Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design	7
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes	7
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong	7
Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes	7
More than just transition: Uncovering heterogeneous socio-economic outcomes of climate policies	7
Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries	7
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions	7
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions	7
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions	7
Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’	7
From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: Mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies	7