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View article: Coalitions, coordination, and contestation: a systematic review of the advocacy coalition framework and its implications for sustainability transitions research
Coalitions, coordination, and contestation: a systematic review of the advocacy coalition framework and its implications for sustainability transitions research Open
Introduction Achieving sustainability transitions requires substantial policy changes, often driven by coalitions of actors advocating for institutional change and transformative agendas. While the transitions literature highlights the imp…
View article: The rise of technological innovation systems in sustainability transitions
The rise of technological innovation systems in sustainability transitions Open
Innovation systems take a holistic perspective to frame the dynamics that influence the emergence of innovation. Such systems consider a wide range of actors, institutions and networks to be the key structural building blocks. These struct…
View article: Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions?
Diversity and directionality: friends or foes in sustainability transitions? Open
Literature on mission-specific innovation systems (MIS) highlights the crucial role of directionality when achieving sustainability transitions, while diversity literature emphasizes the need to keep diverse directions open. Like direction…
View article: Participation in an Italian cancer screening program among people with psychiatric diagnoses: a retrospective cohort study
Participation in an Italian cancer screening program among people with psychiatric diagnoses: a retrospective cohort study Open
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access abstract under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives CC BY-NC-ND licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
View article: The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VHP4Safety) project: Next generation chemical safety assessment based on human data
The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VHP4Safety) project: Next generation chemical safety assessment based on human data Open
The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VHP4Safety) project aims to build a virtual human platform (VHP) to protect human health and revolutionize the safety assessment of chemicals and pharmaceuticals by transitioning from anima…
View article: On the resilience of innovation systems
On the resilience of innovation systems Open
Mission-oriented innovation policies address urgent societal challenges, often through rapid technological upscaling. However, upscaling may endanger the resilience of an innovation system by limiting variety. A resilient innovation system…
View article: The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems
The influence of visions on cooperation among interest organizations in fragmented socio‐technical systems Open
The paper shows that visions of the future can be used as a predictor of cooperation and division between actors in their efforts to shape the institutional environment, specifically policy in socio‐technical systems. Accordingly, the pape…
View article: Assessing mission-specific innovation systems: Towards an analytical framework
Assessing mission-specific innovation systems: Towards an analytical framework Open
In the currently emerging paradigm of challenge-led and transformative innovation policies, there is increasing attention for addressing urgent societal problems by formulating clear, timebound and ambitious mission goals. Completing such …
View article: Institutional work as a key ingredient of food innovation success: The case of plant-based proteins
Institutional work as a key ingredient of food innovation success: The case of plant-based proteins Open
In this paper, we use the theory of institutional work to understand how plant-based meat substitutes emerge and successfully diffuse in the context of a dominant meat regime in the United States (US). We observe that institutional factors…
View article: Plant-based protein products in the news: Mind the gap between innovation and public discourses
Plant-based protein products in the news: Mind the gap between innovation and public discourses Open
Markets for plant-based protein products are experiencing unprecedented growth. However, the extent to which the wider diffusion of plant-based protein products is beneficial to human and planetary health is still a contested issue in publ…
View article: Understanding circular economy transitions: The case of circular textiles
Understanding circular economy transitions: The case of circular textiles Open
The circular economy has been proposed to transform global textile supply chains which are currently challenged by a complex nexus of sustainability issues related to the dominant fast fashion trend. Research on circular economy in the tex…
View article: On accelerating the development of configurational innovation systems—the case of non-urban district heating in Germany
On accelerating the development of configurational innovation systems—the case of non-urban district heating in Germany Open
The decarbonizing the heat sector is a major challenge in the energy transition in Germany and elsewhere. District heating systems could play an important role in this context. However, the diffusion of the technology in Germany has been v…
View article: Escaping the niche market: An innovation system analysis of the Dutch building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) sector
Escaping the niche market: An innovation system analysis of the Dutch building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) sector Open
Over the past years, a new technology has emerged in the solar photovoltaics market: building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Even though this technology has a lot of potential, the diffusion of BIPV has remained rather limited, globally …
View article: Alliances as system builders: On the conditions of network formation and system building in sustainability transitions
Alliances as system builders: On the conditions of network formation and system building in sustainability transitions Open
The technological innovation systems (TIS) literature and the strand of system building studies explain the role of networks in the strategic creation of favorable institutional conditions for sustainability transitions. To better understa…
View article: Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands
Low-carbon lock-in? Exploring transformative innovation policy and offshore wind energy pathways in the Netherlands Open
A new era of transformative and mission-oriented innovation policy has arisen due to the urgency of grand societal challenges, such as climate change. This new era requires a massive restructuring of societies, industries and consumption a…
View article: Understanding the protein transition: The rise of plant-based meat substitutes
Understanding the protein transition: The rise of plant-based meat substitutes Open
Even though the food system is responsible for a significant part of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a transition to a sustainable food system is needed, the growing body of literature on sustainability transitions has paid littl…