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Review of System Innovation and Transitions Theories: Concepts and frameworks for understanding and enabling transitions to a low carbon built environment
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gaziulusoy, Idil Twomey, P. J. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | • This report reviews the literature on innovation and transition theory with a view to gaining a greater understanding of the nature of innovation processes, particularly those involving disruptive change and systems transformation. The report has been commissioned by the Visions and Pathways 2040 project for the CRC for Low Carbon Living. A key aim of the review is to supply insights and frameworks to assist the visioning, pathway analysis and policy work of the project. • There are a number of variations in the use of the term " innovation ". These variations depend on, for example, where the innovation is located in the value chain (e.g. product, process or organisational innovation), the novelty of the knowledge underlying the innovation, or the extent of the economic /market impact of the innovation. Confusingly, the idea of " incremental " versus " radical " innovation is often applied to both the second and the third of these situations. The move to a low carbon urban future will most likely not rely on one or even a small number of technological innovations, but is likely to arise from a constellation of interacting systems of innovations, some involving radical knowledge-based innovation and some involving incremental and " recombinative " innovations. Another term commonly used interchangeably with systems innovation is " transition ". • The theory of innovations and transitions is not based on any single discipline or school of thought. Rather, the concepts and insights draw upon a broad range of disciplines and practices BLOCKINgoing BLOCKINback BLOCKINto BLOCKINthe BLOCKINfirst BLOCKINhalf BLOCKINof BLOCKINthe BLOCKIN20 th century. Early economic theories viewed the innovation process as a relatively simple, one-directional process from invention to commercial development to diffusion into the market place. A consequence of this linear model was a strong prioritisation of either supply– push factors such as research and development (R&D) or demand–pull factors such as relative prices as the drivers of innovation. • Modern thinking on innovation has a more nuanced and richer picture, with a wider set of implications for those hoping to assist, shape or direct the innovation process and system change. Key ideas include appreciating the importance of actor networks; the role of institutions; the co-evolutionary nature of the technologies, institutions, social practices and business strategies; the role of feedback and path dependency in socioeconomic systems; and a greater understanding of the different types of knowledge and learning processes. • … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
