Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects |
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| Authors: | Jochen Markard Rob RavenBernhard Truffer |
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| Institution: | a Cirus - Innovation Research in Utility Sectors, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
b Eindhoven University of Technology, School of Innovation Sciences, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Sustainability oriented innovation and technology studies have received increasing attention over the past 10-15 years. In particular, a new field dealing with “sustainability transitions” has gained ground and reached an output of 60-100 academic papers per year. In this article, we aim to identify the intellectual contours of this emerging field by conducting a review of basic conceptual frameworks, together with bibliographical analysis of 540 journal articles in the field. It is against this background that we position the six papers assembled in a special section in Research Policy. These papers pave the way for new conceptual developments and serve as stepping-stones in the maturation of sustainability transition studies, by linking with the scholarly literatures of management studies, sociology, policy studies, economic geography, and modeling. |
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| Keywords: | Innovation studies Sustainability Literature review |
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