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Once transitions progress beyond the start-up phase, niche technologies diffuse more widely to generate important knock-on effects in a focal sector. This entails a need for moving beyond niches to embrace a 'whole system perspective'. In the power sector, this perspective puts electricity networks in a more central position. This paper analyses how the governance of power networks is challenged by the energy transition. We integrate insights from network regulation and transition studies to propose a framework for understanding such challenges. With this framework we assess recent regulatory innovations in Norway. The paper shows how the regulatory toolbox can be amended to tackle innovation and transition. The Norwegian case shows that the regulator has taken up the energy transition challenges. It also shows the difficulties of making these new instruments effective, including the tension between a regulatory cost-efficiency focus on the one hand, and transformative change on the other.
Dierk Bauknecht; Allan Dahl Andersen; Karoline Tornes Dunne. Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2020, 37, 318 -331.
AMA StyleDierk Bauknecht, Allan Dahl Andersen, Karoline Tornes Dunne. Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2020; 37 ():318-331.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDierk Bauknecht; Allan Dahl Andersen; Karoline Tornes Dunne. 2020. "Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 37, no. : 318-331.
As the world moves towards the Anthropocene, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. We suggest that studying innovation in natural resource based industries yields important insights. Despite the importance of innovation in and transformation of natural resource based industries for development and sustainability, the issue has received limited scholarly attention. To advance our thinking about innovation in these industries, we explore and elaborate on the notion of ‘natural resource knowledge idiosyncrasy’ which describes how heterogeneity of natural environments often generates a need for unique innovations that require development and application of in situ knowledge. We draw on theories of knowledge stickiness and user-driven innovation to conceptualize natural resource knowledge idiosyncrasy. We qualify and elaborate that conceptualization through a review of case studies. On that basis we discuss implications for innovation policy, sustainability challenges, and further research.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Olav Wicken. Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. Innovation and Development 2020, 11, 91 -117.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Olav Wicken. Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. Innovation and Development. 2020; 11 (1):91-117.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Olav Wicken. 2020. "Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges." Innovation and Development 11, no. 1: 91-117.
The urgency of a sustainability transition in the energy sector has led numerous authors to argue that it can and should be accelerated through active phase-out, disruption and destabilization of the undesirable established technologies. This paper starts out accepting the phase-out premise, but argues that a more nuanced view of ‘established’ technologies and incumbents is needed. Technologies often involve many different sectors, and there may be a great but underappreciated potential to realize transitions through recombinations and diversification by upstream firms providing the components and material inputs for the undesirable technology. Recombination and diversification can also dampen the possible negative effects of transitions such as loss of jobs and bankruptcy of firms that are not at the core of these technologies. By combining literature on transitions and phase-out, technological innovation systems, and diversification, we develop a framework of analysis that is used to study diversification processes in supplier firms in the Norwegian offshore petroleum technology value chain. We find that these firms face a number of diversification challenges that are mostly non-technological. These findings are used to discuss how policies can better support diversification and how theories of sustainability transitions can take this perspective into account.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Magnus Gulbrandsen. The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science 2020, 64, 101447 .
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Magnus Gulbrandsen. The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. 2020; 64 ():101447.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Magnus Gulbrandsen. 2020. "The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway." Energy Research & Social Science 64, no. : 101447.
Building on the chapter “Businesses and industries in sustainability transitions” in the STRN agenda, this viewpoint calls for more attention to how economic and environmental goals can be aligned to enhance the political legitimacy of transitions. This requires, we suggest, a more integrated understanding of the relationship between industrial transformation and sustainability transitions. We provide a tentative articulation of such a perspective by recombining insights from the fields of Industrial Dynamics and Transition Studies. We point to three issues that can serve as starting points for developing such a perspective and argue why those merit more attention in transition studies. These include: (a) attention to the diversity of sectors and firms involved in, and affected by, transitions through inter-sectoral linkages, (b) how existing knowledge bases influence the direction and scope of transitions, and (c) policy challenges associated with parallel transitions in multiple sectors that constitute economy-wide processes of structural change.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Markus Steen; Tuukka Mäkitie; Jens Hanson; Taran M. Thune; Birthe Soppe. The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2019, 34, 348 -351.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Markus Steen, Tuukka Mäkitie, Jens Hanson, Taran M. Thune, Birthe Soppe. The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2019; 34 ():348-351.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Markus Steen; Tuukka Mäkitie; Jens Hanson; Taran M. Thune; Birthe Soppe. 2019. "The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 34, no. : 348-351.
Studies of socio-technical transitions have often focused on niche emergence or on the interaction of niche and regime technologies in a ‘single-sector’ setting. Such analyses are particularly important in the early stages of transitions, when there is a primary interest in developing novel technologies. In later phases, transitions do not only involve multiple technologies but also multiple sectors, which means that the complexity of technology dynamics increases. We want to improve established frameworks—technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective—to account for such phenomena. We study HVDC technology, which is a mature technology for electricity transmission that has remained in a niche for decades but recently gained new momentum as the ongoing transition in the electricity sector accelerated. Our case highlights: i) the importance of multi-technology interaction within and across sectors, ii) an important role for innovating incumbents responding to these dynamics, and iii) an increasing relevance of multi-technology interactions and organizational responses in advanced stages of transitions. To guide our analysis, we introduce a novel multi-technology map. Such a tool can be useful to complement existing frameworks.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Jochen Markard. Multi-technology interaction in socio-technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2019, 151, 119802 .
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Jochen Markard. Multi-technology interaction in socio-technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2019; 151 ():119802.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Jochen Markard. 2019. "Multi-technology interaction in socio-technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 151, no. : 119802.
Policies and politics are crucial elements of sustainability transitions. Transition pathways unfold as a result of continuous struggles of actors over policy goals and instruments. Taking a policy mix perspective, we study policies and policy preferences of key industry actors in the ongoing energy transition at the level of the European Union. We introduce two central analytical dimensions for transition pathways: the degree of sustainability (here: renewable energy ambition) and the degree of disruption (here: whether to pursue centralized or decentralized energy system configurations). We find that the current EU energy policy mix is heterogeneous with respect to the issue of (de-)centralization, whereas most policies and actors express high or moderate ambitions for renewable energy. Our paper makes three contributions. It demonstrates how actors and policy preferences can be explicitly included in the study of policy mixes. To the literature on transition pathways, we introduce sustainability as another key dimension in addition to disruption. Lastly, we propose a novel methodology for analyzing the politics of transition pathways.
Marie Byskov Lindberg; Jochen Markard; Allan Dahl Andersen. Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix. Research Policy 2018, 48, 103668 .
AMA StyleMarie Byskov Lindberg, Jochen Markard, Allan Dahl Andersen. Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix. Research Policy. 2018; 48 (10):103668.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarie Byskov Lindberg; Jochen Markard; Allan Dahl Andersen. 2018. "Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix." Research Policy 48, no. 10: 103668.
The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of technological innovation and economic change. We argue that improving the capacity of an IS framework for dealing with wicked problems and the normative complexity of sustainability requires a fundamental paradigm shift because in the current IS paradigm innovations are considered as per se desirable and in mostly technological terms. Therefore, we call for IS dedicated to transformations towards sustainability by opening up for systemic innovations beyond the technological dimension and by acknowledging that stakeholders have conflicting visions, interests, norms, and expectations with regard to sustainability goals. Taking the normative dimension of transformations towards sustainability seriously thus requires more explicit and integrative research on directionality, legitimacy, responsibility, and their interrelation in IS. The article concludes by proposing suggestions for future research based on IS-related approaches that can serve as building blocks for an IS framework capable of incorporating legitimate goal-orientation for transformative innovation by and for society.
Michael P. Schlaile; Sophie Urmetzer; Vincent Blok; Allan Dahl Andersen; Job Timmermans; Matthias Mueller; Jan Fagerberg; Andreas Pyka. Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously. Sustainability 2017, 9, 2253 .
AMA StyleMichael P. Schlaile, Sophie Urmetzer, Vincent Blok, Allan Dahl Andersen, Job Timmermans, Matthias Mueller, Jan Fagerberg, Andreas Pyka. Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (12):2253.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichael P. Schlaile; Sophie Urmetzer; Vincent Blok; Allan Dahl Andersen; Job Timmermans; Matthias Mueller; Jan Fagerberg; Andreas Pyka. 2017. "Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously." Sustainability 9, no. 12: 2253.
We propose that foresight can contribute to inclusive development by making innovation systems more inclusive. Processes of developing future oriented innovation policies are often unsuccessful and rarely inclusive. We conceptualize such processes as foresighting. We focus on how the ex-ante design of policymaking processes affects the actual process with a focus on inclusion, and we discuss how it affects policy effectiveness and innovation system transformation. Our argument is that processes of policymaking must be inclusive to affect and transform innovation systems because a set of distributed actors, rather than ministries and innovation agencies, is the gatekeepers of change. From this perspective, inclusion is a precondition rather than an obstacle for transformation. Based on the notion of innovation system foresight, we develop an analytical framework that we use to study design and processes in foresight cases in two emerging economies: Brazil and South Korea. We conclude that better systemic and innovation oriented foresight is needed to enhance inclusive development.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresighting for inclusive development. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2017, 119, 227 -236.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresighting for inclusive development. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2017; 119 ():227-236.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. 2017. "Foresighting for inclusive development." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 119, no. : 227-236.
Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against this background, this introductory article aims to make four contributions. First, to assess the extent to which Innovation Studies has analysed the link between natural resources and development. Second, based on recent studies of innovation in natural resource-based industries (NRBIs), we elaborate on and articulate an innovation and industry perspective on the relationship between natural resources and development. In this, we foreground the particularities of innovation in NRBIs. Third, we explore policy implications of the specificities of innovation in NRBIs. It matters greatly for design and choice of policy instruments in support of innovation and development whether and how innovation in NRBIs differ from innovation in other industries. Lastly, we introduce the papers constituting this special issue and propose avenues for further research.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Anabel Marìn; Erlend O. Simensen. Innovation in natural resource-based industries: a pathway to development? Introduction to special issue. Innovation and Development 2017, 8, 1 -27.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Anabel Marìn, Erlend O. Simensen. Innovation in natural resource-based industries: a pathway to development? Introduction to special issue. Innovation and Development. 2017; 8 (1):1-27.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Anabel Marìn; Erlend O. Simensen. 2017. "Innovation in natural resource-based industries: a pathway to development? Introduction to special issue." Innovation and Development 8, no. 1: 1-27.
Purpose – This paper aims to argue that innovation system foresight (ISF) can significantly contribute to the third mission of universities by creating an active dialogue between universities, industry and society. Design/methodology/approach – This paper’s approach is conceptual. The authors analyse the third mission and relevant literature on innovation systems and foresight to explain how and why foresight contributes to the third mission. Findings – The authors propose that foresight contributes to the third mission of universities, particularly to the research and development and innovation dimensions through the development of joint understanding of the agendas and future needs of stakeholders. In addition, foresight enables education to be designed to address identified needs. Research limitations/implications – The findings are both conceptual and exploratory in nature. Thus, the argument needs further examination through a broader study on foresight in the university–industry context and/or longitudinal research on the outcomes and impact of foresight in this context. Practical implications – The findings highlight the importance of understanding the systemic nature of innovation and its role in economic development. Universities must understand their role within the larger innovation system to fulfil the potential of economic development and by extension, their third mission. Originality/value – The paper outlines a novel approach of using ISF to promote university–industry partnerships and the growth of innovation systems. The paper also contributes to the discussion of the third mission by outlining that mission in practical terms.
Kalle Piirainen; Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresight and the third mission of universities: the case for innovation system foresight. foresight 2016, 18, 24 -40.
AMA StyleKalle Piirainen, Allan Dahl Andersen, Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresight and the third mission of universities: the case for innovation system foresight. foresight. 2016; 18 (1):24-40.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKalle Piirainen; Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. 2016. "Foresight and the third mission of universities: the case for innovation system foresight." foresight 18, no. 1: 24-40.
We propose that foresight can contribute to inclusive development by making innovation policy processes more inclusive, which in turn makes innovation systems more inclusive. Processes of developing future-oriented innovation policies are often unsuccessful and rarely inclusive. We conceptualize such processes as foresighting. We focus on how the ex-ante design of policymaking processes affects the actual process with a focus on inclusion, and we discuss how it affects policy effectiveness and innovation system transformation. Our argument is that processes of policymaking must be inclusive to affect and transform innovation systems because a set of distributed actors, rather than ministries and innovation agencies, is the gatekeepers of change. From this perspective, inclusion is a precondition rather than an obstacle for transformation. We develop a conceptual framework and use it to study design and processes in two foresight cases in two emerging economies - Brazil and South Korea. Although the research is exploratory and the results tentative, the empirical studies support our main propositions.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresighting for Inclusive Development. 2016, 1 .
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Per Dannemand Andersen. Foresighting for Inclusive Development. . 2016; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. 2016. "Foresighting for Inclusive Development." , no. : 1.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Björn Johnson. Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems. Innovation and Development 2015, 5, 279 -296.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Björn Johnson. Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems. Innovation and Development. 2015; 5 (2):279-296.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Björn Johnson. 2015. "Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems." Innovation and Development 5, no. 2: 279-296.
This paper applies a technological innovation system (TIS) approach to study how and under which circumstances the sugarcane and biofuel innovation system (SUBIS) emerged and grew in Brazil in the period 1900–1973. The paper advances our understanding of innovation system (IS) building in the South in three ways. First, it illustrates how sectoral IS formation can be understood by using the TIS framework. Second, it highlights key mechanisms in the formation of TIS. Third, it illustrates that the TIS approach must further emphasize the demand for new knowledge in order to be adapted to the South. In addition, the paper demonstrates how many decades of IS building was central to the subsequent success of the Brazilian National Alcohol Program.
Allan Dahl Andersen. A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: the pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil. Innovation and Development 2015, 5, 1 -21.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: the pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil. Innovation and Development. 2015; 5 (1):1-21.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. 2015. "A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: the pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil." Innovation and Development 5, no. 1: 1-21.
Allan Dahl Andersen. No transition without transmission: HVDC electricity infrastructure as an enabler for renewable energy? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2014, 13, 75 -95.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. No transition without transmission: HVDC electricity infrastructure as an enabler for renewable energy? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 2014; 13 ():75-95.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. 2014. "No transition without transmission: HVDC electricity infrastructure as an enabler for renewable energy?" Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 13, no. : 75-95.
Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. Innovation system foresight. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2014, 88, 276 -286.
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen, Per Dannemand Andersen. Innovation system foresight. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2014; 88 ():276-286.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen; Per Dannemand Andersen. 2014. "Innovation system foresight." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 88, no. : 276-286.
Per Dannemand Andersen; Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Anker Jensen; Birgitte Rasmussen. Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight. Futures 2014, 61, 33 -44.
AMA StylePer Dannemand Andersen, Allan Dahl Andersen, Per Anker Jensen, Birgitte Rasmussen. Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight. Futures. 2014; 61 ():33-44.
Chicago/Turabian StylePer Dannemand Andersen; Allan Dahl Andersen; Per Anker Jensen; Birgitte Rasmussen. 2014. "Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight." Futures 61, no. : 33-44.
It is a stylised fact in economics that natural resources are harmful for economic development. Still, one can find several examples of natural-resource-based development. This apparent paradox reflects an unsatisfactory conceptualisation of natural resources. This paper suggests a new evolutionary-institutional approach to studying natural resources and their role in economic development with focus on learning and linkage dynamics. The paper reviews the literature with a focus on the underlying perception of natural resources as the key for understanding its shortcomings. Most approaches perceive natural resources as finite and exogenous to the economic system. These assumptions constitute the pillars of the law of diminishing returns which inter alia states that natural resources cannot lead development. Others argue that natural resources are endogenous to the economy and can develop important dynamic linkages. The paper elaborates on the latter and suggests that in order to understand the role of natural resources in economic development, they must be understood as dynamic, and as being subject to processes of natural resource creation, extension and obsolescing that are characterised by learning and capability building.
Allan Dahl Andersen. Towards a new approach to natural resources and development: the role of learning, innovation and linkage dynamics. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development 2012, 5, 291 .
AMA StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. Towards a new approach to natural resources and development: the role of learning, innovation and linkage dynamics. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development. 2012; 5 (3):291.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAllan Dahl Andersen. 2012. "Towards a new approach to natural resources and development: the role of learning, innovation and linkage dynamics." International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development 5, no. 3: 291.