Chasing after the wind? Green economy strategies, path creation and transitions in the offshore wind industry

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Exploring the scope of regions in challenge-oriented innovation policy: the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

“…While solutions to some structural and transformative innovation challenges/failures, such as the soft network and the capabilities failure, can be found at the regional level, solving other problems is beyond the capabilities of regions alone (Köhler et al, 2021). Not only do regional actors face challenges and obstacles related to structural innovation systems, they also face problems and difficulties related to priority setting, upscaling of local innovations, competition and coordination within and across different regions and sectors, and a lack of quality institutions to facilitate policy learning (related to failures and challenges in transformative innovation systems) (Gibbs and Jensen, 2021). Therefore, support from higher-level governments is needed not only to diffuse the initial grassroots innovations to similar regions, but more importantly to coordinate the interests of different regions and sectors to enable a truly sustainable transition in a broader geographic context (Köhler et al, 2021;Wanzenböck and Frenken, 2020).…”

“…Finally, balancing economic/industrial competitiveness with sustainable development is a tightrope walk for regional decision makers that needs to be well-balanced (Gibbs and Jensen, 2021). Scientists should be more reflexive when making policy proposals for peripheral regions, as the goal of environmental sustainability should not be achieved at the cost of hindering the development of regional economies, but both aspects should go hand in hand.…”

“…Scientists should be more reflexive when making policy proposals for peripheral regions, as the goal of environmental sustainability should not be achieved at the cost of hindering the development of regional economies, but both aspects should go hand in hand. As Bugge et al (2021) rightly argued, existing industry actors and resources in regions can become drivers of transformative change if mission problems can be solved with solutions that offer economic opportunities (for a similar argument, see Gibbs and Jensen, 2021). In contrast, policies that address societal challenges while creating economic uncertainty typically face strong resistance and therefore have low political feasibility (Vona, 2019).…”

Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment

“…First, economic geographers who study the spatial development of different types of industries are becoming interested in how environmental concerns have recently shaped the modes and distribution of industrial development (Trippl et al, 2020; Werner, 2022). Many of these scholars combine elements related to the technological evolution of ST research with an account of green path creation in evolutionary EG to strengthen the explanation of the socio-technical aspects of the emergence of a new green industry in particular localities (Binz et al, 2016; Gibbs and Jensen, 2022). However, EG scholarship tends to overlook the impacts of green industry development on the ecological environment.…”

Are peripheral regions in troubled waters for sustainability transitions? A systematic analysis of the literature

“…At the same time, it has been argued that such transition pathways are variegated and so are the resulting environmental outcomes (e.g. Bina, 2013; Gibbs and Jensen, 2022; Moallemi et al, 2020). While large metropolises and core urban regions have been at the forefront of those efforts (C40 Cities, 2016), sustainability transitions raise several issues for so-called peripheral regions.…”