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The Dynamics of Sustainable Innovation Journeys
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Geels, Frank; Hekkert, Marko; Jacobsson, Staffan. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: KJD; PDG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 183 x 247 x 13. Weight in Grams: 412.
This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and managed as an innovation journey in which social, technological, political and cultural dimensions become aligned. The ‘journey’ aspect captures the open and uncertain nature of sustainable developments and highlights the agency dimension, with actors navigating, negotiating, groping and struggling their way forward (and sometimes backward). The book addresses the following research questions: What are the key processes and micro-dynamics of innovation journeys? Which policy lessons can be drawn for managing sustainable innovation journeys? To conceptualize the multi-dimensional nature of innovation journeys the book draws on insights from industrial economics, evolutionary ... Read more
This book shows that sustainable development should be analysed and managed as an innovation journey in which social, technological, political and cultural dimensions become aligned. The ‘journey’ aspect captures the open and uncertain nature of sustainable developments and highlights the agency dimension, with actors navigating, negotiating, groping and struggling their way forward (and sometimes backward). The book addresses the following research questions: What are the key processes and micro-dynamics of innovation journeys? Which policy lessons can be drawn for managing sustainable innovation journeys? To conceptualize the multi-dimensional nature of innovation journeys the book draws on insights from industrial economics, evolutionary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415618663
SKU
V9780415618663
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About
Frank Geels is Professor at SPRU, one of the founding institutes of innovation studies, at the University of Sussex. He is a world-leading scholar on socio technical transitions to sustainability, and is well known for his work on the multi-level perspective and empirical studies of a dozen historical and future transitions. Marko P. Hekkert is ... Read more
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