Workshop 3 on governance:
“Politics and governance in system innovations for sustainable development”

20-21 September 2007, Berlin / Blankensee

Organised by Jan-Peter Voß (Öko-Institut), Adrian Smith (SPRU) and John Grin (University of Amsterdam)

The workshop explored linkages between socio-technical change and governance. The objective was to foster exchange and understanding between the two research perspectives. Such encounter generates new insight into the dynamics of the policy process as it interacts with socio-technical change. Envisaged are more politically robust approaches to shaping sustainable socio-technical transitions. The workshop’s core themes were:

  • Agency & Power: political contests over system innovations
  • Participation & Legitimacy: cognitive and ethical orientation for system innovations
  • Institutions & Change: conditions of political reform for system innovations

    • Further information:

  • Call for papers
  • Programme
  • Participants

    • Programme, abstracts and presentations

    I. Transition management and policy-studies: an encounter

    Welcome and introduction
    Jan-Peter Voß (Öko-Institut), Adrian Smith (University of Sussex/ SPRU), John Grin (University of Amsterdam) download presentation (41 kb)

    Theory and practice of transition management: the co-construction of a new strategic framework for sustainable innovation policy in the Netherlands
    Jan Rotmans (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ DRIFT), René Kemp (University of Maastricht/ MERIT), Derk Loorbach (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ DRIFT) download presentation (275 kb)

    Does transition management travel? Two case studies from Finland
    Raimo Lovio (Helsinki School of Economics), Sirkku Kivisaari (University of Kuopio), Eva Heiskanen (National Consumer Research Council Finnland)
    download abstract (17 kb) download presentation (190 kb)

    Translating system innovation and new forms of governance to a ‘pristine’ policy context. Flemish experiences and a research agenda
    Erik Paredis (University of Gent)
    download abstract (13 kb) download presentation (110 kb)

    Environmental Political Economy, Technological Transitions and the State
    James Meadowcroft (Carleton University)
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    II. Engaging with system innovations

    Introduction
    Adrian Smith (University of Sussex/ SPRU)

    Empowerment and Transition Management
    Flor Avelino (Erasmus University Rotterdam/ DRIFT)
    download abstract (18 kb) download presentation (387 kb)

    Governing innovations in sustainable practice
    Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University), Gordon Walker (Lancaster University)
    download abstract (16 kb) download presentation (2,05 MB)

    Biofuels transitions, power and sustainability: lessons for global governance from Brazil
    Markku Lehtonen (University of Sussex/ SPRU)
    download abstract (16 kb) download presentation (208 kb)

    Transition analysis of sanitary niches: Dynamics of purposive transition contexts within sanitary regimes in Indian cities
    Govind Gopakumar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
    download abstract (18 kb) download presentation (109 kb)

    Discussion
    Input I: Frank Geels (University of Eindhoven) download presentation (77 kb)

    Input II: Franziska Wolff (Öko-Institut) download presentation (212 kb)

    III. Building legitimacy for system innovations

    Introduction
    John Grin (University of Amsterdam)

    Making democratic sense of socio-technical transitions for sustainability
    Carolyn Hendriks (University of Canberra)
    download abstract (82 kb) download presentation (4,04 MB)

    Technical knowledge in public deliberation: Toward a normative theory of contributory policy expertise
    Frank Fischer (Rutgers University NJ)
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    Mobbing for socio-technical transitions?! The normative dimension of transition dynamics as observed in Energy Regions
    Philipp Späth (University of Klagenfurt/ IFZ)
    download abstract (17 kb) download presentation (2,05 MB)

    Discussion
    Input I: Boelie Elzen (University of Twente)
    Input II: Benjamin Nölting (Technical University of Berlin)

    IV. Institutional dynamics interfering with system innovation policy

    Introduction
    Jan-Peter Voß (Öko-Institut)

    Implementing Complex Policy Initiatives: Layering, Drift, Conversion and Policy Design as Alternative Outcomes of System Reform Efforts
    Michael Howlett (Simon Fraser University)
    download abstract (33 kb) download presentation (404 kb)

    Learning from the Other Team: The Small Aircraft Transportation System as a Governance Model for Sustainable Sociotechnical Transitions
    Maurie J. Cohen (University of Leeds)
    download abstract (42 kb) download presentation (1,92 MB)

    Sustainable transition of electronics products: WEEE and RoHS linking innovation to governance policies on electronics waste
    Erik Hagelskjær (Technical University of Denmark), Ulrik Jørgensen (Technical University of Denmark)
    download abstract (24 kb) download presentation (82 kb)

    Discussion
    Input I: Marten Arentsen (University of Twente)
    Input II: Raymund Werle (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)

    V. Concluding discussion

    Discussion
    Input I: Mike Hodson, University of Salford/ SURF download presentation (29 kb)

    Input II: Victor Galaz, Stockhom University/ CTM download presentation

    Conclusion
    Jan-Peter Voß (Öko-Institut), Adrian Smith (University of Sussex/ SPRU), John Grin (University of Amsterdam)
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