This Open Access book illuminates the significant transformation processes brought about by economy-wide shifts towards sustainable modes of production, distribution, and consumption. In particular, the accelerating industrial transformations towards sustainability, in response to global warming and planetary boundary constraints, bring a range of new research challenges.
By integrating perspectives from the interdisciplinary fields of innovation, policy, and sustainability transitions studies, the chapters offer novel conceptual and empirical insights into these complex processes, including on multi-system dynamics and digitalization. An essential read for both researchers and policymakers seeking to understand ongoing industrial transformations towards sustainability.
Chapter 1.- Introduction: why this book and its contributions.
Chapter
2.- Understanding multi-system interlinkages between energy and mobility
systems and their governance in the UK.
Chapter 3.- The sectoral
configurations of the hydrogen innovation system in Norway.
Chapter 4.-
Mapping multi-system interactions in urban contexts a study of the energy,
transport and food systems in the municipality of Gothenburg.
Chapter 5.-
The multi-sectoral interactions of electrification in Norwegian coastal
shipping.
Chapter 6.- Conceptualising multi-system configurations: The case
of hydrogen in Germany.
Chapter 7.- Pulling the brake: Worldwide
institutional reactions to Ubers entry.
Chapter 8.- (Re)interpreting
circularity? Understanding the contested directionalities of the Swedish
heavy-duty vehicle sector towards the Circular Economy.
Chapter 9.- Captains
of industry? Value chain relations and sustainability reorientation of
firms.
Chapter 10.- Navigating paradoxes in sustainability transitions: how
incumbent firms (can) foster circular economy.
Chapter 11.- Digitalization
and platformization for sustainability: The case of the oil and gas
industry.
Chapter 12.- Making oil and gas smarter, not greener: Fossil fuel
incumbents corporate venture capital investments in digital entrepreneurs
during sustainability transitions.
Chapter 13.- The scope and outcomes of
transformative policy missions: A conceptual framework and empirical
exploration of Swedish industry decarbonization.
Chapter 14.- The more the
merrier? A study on multiple mission-specific innovation systems in the Dutch
energy sector.
Chapter 15.- The transformative capacity of green industrial
policy.
Chapter 16.- Navigating twin transitions: a policy framework to
align digital innovation with sustainability, applied to the Dutch processing
industry.
Chapter 17.- Multi-system dynamics, industrial transformation and
transition policy: Future research priorities.
Markus Steen is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Technology Management (research group Innovation and Sustainability) in SINTEF Digital. He holds a PhD in economic geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Geography, where he is also Associate Professor II. His research focuses on sustainability transitions, innovation, policy, industrial transformation and regional development.
Taran Thune is Professor of Innovation at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo and director of research centre INTRANSIT. Taran is particularly interested in policy questions and has published widely on research and innovation policy topics.
Teis Hansen is Full Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, and Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Technology Management, SINTEF, Trondheim. He is also a member of the Danish Governments expert group on the role of research in the green transition, and a Semper Ardens Accomplish grant holder of the Carlsberg Foundation. His research interests are located at the intersections of geography, innovation, sustainability and policy.
Tuukka Mäkitie is Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital, and holds a PhD in innovation studies from University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include sustainability transitions and green innovation in energy, transport and manufacturing sectors. He is particularly interested in the processes of novel value chain formation as a key part of the acceleration phase of sustainability transitions.
Koen Frenken is Full Professor in Innovation Studies at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. His research interests include evolutionary economics, institutional sociology and complexity theory. He works on breakthrough innovation, economic geography, platform economy and innovation policy.
