Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board146
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship80
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition71
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems70
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue66
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia63
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research63
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy62
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making62
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)59
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?57
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion56
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies55
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics55
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales51
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries50
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India49
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change49
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy47
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations46
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart43
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare43
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues42
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions41
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions41
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs39
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system38
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling38
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Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions37
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’37
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis36
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany35
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities35
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond35
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes34
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework33
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies33
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures33
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems33
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?33
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions33
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen32
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions32
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism32
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels31
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains31
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector30
Towards transformative leapfrogging30
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities30
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms29
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households29
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions29
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy29
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe28
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies28
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories27
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts27
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management27
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study26
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Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems25
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector25
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale24
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems24
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach24
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?24
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies23
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy23
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
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts23
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation23
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors22
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level22
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition22
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging22
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective21
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What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo21
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector20
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project20
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting20
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition20
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit20
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open20
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation19
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition19
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability18
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion18
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive18
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?18
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts18
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions18
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway17
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions17
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks17
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security17
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Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China17
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability17
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor17
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Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy16
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom16
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review16
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems16
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it16
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy16
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 Transiti16
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection16
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector16
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk16
Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions15
Celebrating a decade of EIST: What's next for transition studies?15
Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission15
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions15
Publisher’s note - Change of Editor-in-Chief15
Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions15
Introduction to “Zooming in and out: Special issue on local transition governance”15
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization15
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Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition15
Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe15
Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions14
Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach14
Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland14
The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi14
Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry14
Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support14
Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution14
International organisations in global sustainability transitions14
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems14
Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power14
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition14
Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality14
The effect of institutional memory on the diffusion of wind energy14
What's underneath? Social skills throughout sustainability transitions14
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Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study14
It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions13
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management13
Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization13
Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations13
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis12
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi12
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy12
Lessons from European transformative policies12
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia12
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions12
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration12
On digitalization and sustainability transitions11
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe11
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen11
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard11
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Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality11
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance11
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis11
Tackling intersecting climate change and biodiversity emergencies: Opportunities for sustainability transitions research11
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building11
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions11
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure11
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria11
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators11
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture10
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions10
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”10
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation10
Dialectic tensions driving niche creation – A case study of a local energy system10
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view10
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions10
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms10
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space10
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments10
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents10
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity10
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Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions: Harnessing tensions for creative outcomes9
Market Formation in a Global Health Transition9
Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda9
Towards a more resource-efficient solar future in the EU: An actor-centered approach9
Elucidating the capabilities of international mechanisms to foster procedural just system change – The case of the 2021 UN Food System Summit9
Common-pool resources and governance in sustainability transitions9
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes9
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review9
Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland9
Towards sustainability in the port sector: The role of intermediation in transition work9
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies9
How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems?9
Framing branching points for transition: Policy and pathways for UK heat decarbonisation9
Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges9
Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas9
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research8
Risk blindness in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands hinders Canada's decarbonization8
How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–19758
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Transition ‘backlash’: Towards explanation, governance and critical understanding8
Megaprojects as niches of sociotechnical transitions: The case of digitalization in UK construction8
Mobility protests in the Netherlands of the 1970s: Activism, innovation, and transitions8
Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration8
Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes8
Get organized? Creating an organizational context for civil society activities in urban sustainability transitions8
Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions8
Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions8
From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: Mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies8
Policy coherence of low-emission transport transition in the Global South: The case of Dhaka City, Bangladesh8
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels8
Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?8
Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms7
Multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions: The example of chemical regions7
Conceptualising institutional complexity in the upscaling of community enterprises: Lessons from renewable energy and carsharing7
International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes7
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit7
Social enterprises towards a sustainable business system: A model of institutional dynamics7
Psychology: The missing link in transitions research7
Innovation in the long run: Perspectives on technological transitions in Sweden 1908–20167
Do transformer missions redirect values of mission-oriented projects? The case of the EU mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’7
Pathways and harbours for the translocal diffusion of sustainability innovations in Europe7
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review7
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration7
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden7
Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden7
Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries7
Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions7
Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design7
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong7
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions7
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions7
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions7
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