Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board163
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship85
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition77
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems71
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue67
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia66
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy63
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?60
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research53
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)52
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales51
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion51
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries49
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare48
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India46
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs44
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change44
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions42
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions39
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies39
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy38
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics38
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart37
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations36
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities34
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system34
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions34
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’34
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis33
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework33
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond33
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling33
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Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies32
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions32
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains32
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures32
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism32
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems31
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels31
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?30
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions29
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories28
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen28
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms28
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector28
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies27
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management27
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts27
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities27
Towards transformative leapfrogging26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe25
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study24
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives24
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A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy24
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions24
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households24
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation23
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems23
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies23
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale23
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging23
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts22
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?22
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level22
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany22
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors22
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector21
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?21
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway21
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance21
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition21
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach21
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy21
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Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open20
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit20
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation20
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo19
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts19
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project19
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks19
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting19
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions19
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective19
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion19
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks18
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China18
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor18
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive18
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security18
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?18
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway18
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability18
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it17
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Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy17
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom17
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection17
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy17
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK17
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions17
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems17
Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions16
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission16
Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions16
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review16
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Celebrating a decade of EIST: What's next for transition studies?16
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe15
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions15
Publisher’s note - Change of Editor-in-Chief15
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems15
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition15
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution15
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality14
International organisations in global sustainability transitions14
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions14
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy14
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland14
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support14
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach13
The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi13
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Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations12
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition12
Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study12
Lessons from European transformative policies12
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi12
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization12
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions12
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration12
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions12
Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power12
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry12
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management12
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality11
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions11
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis11
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe11
On digitalization and sustainability transitions11
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure11
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia11
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building11
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria11
Tackling intersecting climate change and biodiversity emergencies: Opportunities for sustainability transitions research10
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance10
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms10
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments10
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation10
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard10
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis10
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space10
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies10
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions10
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators10
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Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view10
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”10
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture10
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Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit9
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions9
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction9
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research9
Dialectic tensions driving niche creation – A case study of a local energy system9
Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes9
Common-pool resources and governance in sustainability transitions9
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes9
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas9
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach9
Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland9
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents9
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?9
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review9
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda9
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions9
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges9
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions8
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes8
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–19758
From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: Mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies8
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration8
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Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design8
Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries8
Pathways and harbours for the translocal diffusion of sustainability innovations in Europe8
Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’8
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions8
Policy coherence of low-emission transport transition in the Global South: The case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh8
Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?8
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms8
Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes8
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