Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship211
Editorial Board112
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue75
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia74
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems71
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition69
Time on hold: Justice, governance, and the politics of transitions in critical mineral frontiers67
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?65
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare56
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion55
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China54
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs53
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector51
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries50
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations50
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India44
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions41
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales41
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies39
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change38
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building38
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions37
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions37
Editorial Board37
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities36
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system36
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis35
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling35
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’35
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities34
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond34
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures33
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement32
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption32
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?32
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems31
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains31
Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation30
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen30
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies30
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions29
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework29
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies29
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry29
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels29
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism29
Towards transformative leapfrogging28
More of the same? The structural dimension of incumbency in the formation of hydrogen expectations in Chile and the UK28
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector28
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions28
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management27
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households27
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study26
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories26
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways25
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms25
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies25
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe25
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies24
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy24
Editorial Board24
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities24
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors23
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance23
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?23
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions23
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition22
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition22
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts21
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?21
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany21
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios21
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging21
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level21
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach20
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector20
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia20
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy19
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale19
Accelerating sustainable housing transitions: A case study of the window industry in Australia19
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo18
Editorial Board18
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation18
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability18
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective18
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting18
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks18
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway18
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit17
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)17
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions17
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive17
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway17
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor16
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance?16
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy16
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions15
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?15
The anatomy of failed historical transitions: An approach to expand the study of socio-technical change15
Corrigendum to “Does Religious Difference Have an Impact on the Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Ecovillages Worldwide” [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transiti15
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks15
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security15
Editorial Board15
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy15
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion15
From lab to fork: Directionality in the European innovation system for precision fermentation-derived food ingredients15
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy15
A technological innovation system in revival: Nuclear energy in Sweden15
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems14
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions14
Organising the subjects of responsible consumption: Analysing the locus of responsibility for transitions in the UK food sector (2007-2021)14
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom14
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it14
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector14
Rivalry or mutualism? Cross-regional dynamics of China’s wind and photovoltaic power technology diffusion14
Varieties of disagreement in transformative policy missions: A Q study on the decarbonization of Swedish industry14
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection13
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review13
Exploring sufficiency in meat diets: are consumers ready for consumption corridors?13
The geo-economization of sustainability transitions: Spatial dynamics and trade-offs between sovereignty and sustainability13
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission13
Towards a lexicon for just sustainability transitions: thinking with capabilities, epistemology, intersectionality, spatiality, and temporality13
Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions13
Editorial Board13
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution13
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe13
Editorial Board13
Counter-intermediation strategies in transition policy-making: Exploration of the global plastics treaty negotiations12
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland12
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality12
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition12
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions12
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy12
Entangling abilities and supporting environments: A contingency analysis of enabling conditions for multi-system interaction12
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems12
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support12
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization11
Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power11
Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity11
Private intermediaries in multi-system coupling: Wood construction in Norway and Finland11
Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam11
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry11
Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations11
Editorial Board11
Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study11
Lessons from European transformative policies11
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach11
Interactions between Sustainability assessment and Sustainability transitions research: The benefits of combining approaches10
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality10
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi10
Modelling in support of community-empowered energy transitions: Transforming a coal- and carbon-intensive region into a municipality of energy citizens10
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe10
Legal institutionalism and the role of law in market transformation during sustainability transitions: exploring alternative ontological perspectives10
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions10
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building10
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard9
Incorporating insights from global production network and value chain research into the sustainability transitions field9
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance9
Editorial Board9
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions9
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture9
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators9
Business model innovation in food system transitions: An exploratory case study of fermentation firms9
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis9
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration9
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies9
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure9
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments9
Governing complexity: A comparative assessment of four governance models with applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation9
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria9
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view9
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space9
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”9
Does religious difference have an impact on the diffusion of sustainable innovations? A mixed-methods analysis of ecovillages worldwide8
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions8
Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit8
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?8
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation8
Editorial Board8
Modelling energy justice: Reconceptualizing the modelling process to include procedural and recognition justice8
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges8
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms8
Orchestrating ecologies of transition intermediation: insights from a Dutch governmental policy program for urban transformation8
Public clients creating lead markets for innovation towards sustainability transitions: Market-shaping in the Swedish construction sector8
Upscaling niche innovations by circular start-ups for sustainability transitions8
Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes8
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda7
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction7
Editorial Board7
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes7
More than just transition: Uncovering heterogeneous socio-economic outcomes of climate policies7
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels7
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas7
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions7
Full steam astern? Sustainable retro-innovation in the maritime shipping sector7
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review7
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions7
Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries7
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions7
Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland7
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach7
Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’7
From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: Mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies7
Policy coherence of low-emission transport transition in the Global South: The case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh7
Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design7
Applying a conflict typology to ecologies of intermediation: the case of a transitions intermediary in Spain6
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms6
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration6
Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden6
Building momentum for a ‘policy turn’ in sustainability transitions: Lessons from Canada to consolidate strengths and bridge science-policy divides6
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review6
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions6
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong6
Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes6
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions6
Multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions: The example of chemical regions6
Can grassroots movements in water conflicts drive socio-technical transitions in water management systems?6
Infrastructure in Transitions: A Systematic Review of How Infrastructure Influences and is Influenced by Sustainability Transitions6
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration6
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden6
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions6
Anticipatory governance of a maritime mission using a real-time mission-oriented transition assessment6
Rise of the rhizome: Conceptualizing how coastal communities enact change via transition mechanisms6
Cumulative processes in multi-system transitions: expanding value chains and limits to growth for sustainable alternatives6
Mnemonic agency in the Dutch energy transition to gas and electricity6
Navigating the emotional landscape of urban futures: Exploring the role of feelings in participatory backcasting for net zero transitions6
The roles of agri-food tech start-up ecosystems in strategic niche management for food system transitions6
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