Full Description
This Open Access book illuminates the significant transformation processes brought about by economy-wide shifts towards sustainable modes of production, distribution, and consumption. In particular, the accelerating industrial transformations towards sustainability, in response to global warming and planetary boundary constraints, bring a range of new research challenges.
By integrating perspectives from the interdisciplinary fields of innovation, policy, and sustainability transitions studies, the chapters offer novel conceptual and empirical insights into these complex processes, including on multi-system dynamics and digitalization. An essential read for both researchers and policymakers seeking to understand ongoing industrial transformations towards sustainability.
Contents
Chapter 1.- Introduction: why this book and its contributions.- Chapter 2.- Understanding multi-system interlinkages between energy and mobility systems and their governance in the UK.- Chapter 3.- The sectoral configurations of the hydrogen innovation system in Norway.- Chapter 4.- Mapping multi-system interactions in urban contexts - a study of the energy, transport and food systems in the municipality of Gothenburg.- Chapter 5.- The multi-sectoral interactions of electrification in Norwegian coastal shipping.- Chapter 6.- Conceptualising multi-system configurations: The case of hydrogen in Germany.- Chapter 7.- Pulling the brake: Worldwide institutional reactions to Uber's entry.- Chapter 8.- (Re)interpreting circularity? Understanding the contested directionalities of the Swedish heavy-duty vehicle sector towards the Circular Economy.- Chapter 9.- Captains of industry? Value chain relations and sustainability reorientation of firms.- Chapter 10.- Navigating paradoxes in sustainability transitions: how incumbent firms (can) foster circular economy.- Chapter 11.- Digitalization and platformization for sustainability: The case of the oil and gas industry.- Chapter 12.- Making oil and gas smarter, not greener: Fossil fuel incumbents' corporate venture capital investments in digital entrepreneurs during sustainability transitions.- Chapter 13.- The scope and outcomes of transformative policy missions: A conceptual framework and empirical exploration of Swedish industry decarbonization.- Chapter 14.- The more the merrier? A study on multiple mission-specific innovation systems in the Dutch energy sector.- Chapter 15.- The transformative capacity of green industrial policy.- Chapter 16.- Navigating twin transitions: a policy framework to align digital innovation with sustainability, applied to the Dutch processing industry.- Chapter 17.- Multi-system dynamics, industrial transformation and transition policy: Future research priorities.
