Networks as Policy Instruments for Innovation

Reframing the future: the role of reflexivity in governance networks in sustainability transitions

“…Although facilitated governance networks (Beers and Geerling-Eiff 2013) such as the Duurzaam Door networks have a reflexive attitude, and are aware of their experimental role in the sustainability transition , still the social learning can be regarded as less democratic (Johansson 2004;Biesta, Bouverne-De Bie, and Wildemeersch 2014) than expected. Also, we can see here that social learning cannot be seen in a vacuum, and therefore is a vulnerable activity (Pesch 2015;Wildemeersch 2009).…”

“…Many governance networks are guided by governments, using subsidies and/or different types of coordination and facilitation (Beers and Geerling-Eiff 2013). As such, they can be regarded as facilitated governance networks.…”

Triple helix networks matching knowledge demand and supply in seven Dutch horticulture Greenport regions

“…In such dynamic settings, the co-production between different actors and the valorisation of knowledge follows an interactive, often transdisciplinary path. A path in which knowledge is actively constructed by different actors with diverging interests and values, thus not merely absorbed, unaltered, by individuals, companies or networks (Gibbons et al, 1994;Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2000;Beers and Geerling-Eiff, 2013). Leydesdorff (1995, 2000) refer to the cooperation between industry, knowledge workers and governments on knowledge co-production as Triple Helix (TH) networking.…”

“…The challenge for the agricultural domain is to develop a transdisciplinary knowledge infrastructure in which multiactor networks are able to respond to the dynamic challenges faced by agricultural production and consumption (Hubeek et al, 2006;Wielinga and Geerling-Eiff, 2009;Beers and Geerling-Eiff, 2013). This article addresses changes in the Dutch agricultural knowledge infrastructure towards the formation of networks in which multiple actors from different backgrounds cooperate in transdisciplinary settings, to live up to the dynamics of both economic and societal challenges.…”

Reflexively stumbling towards sustainability : understanding social learning in regional governance networks

“…Although facilitated governance networks (Beers and Geerling-Eiff, 2013) such as the Duurzaam Door networks have a reflexive attitude, and are aware of their experimental role in the sustainability transition , still the social learning can be regarded as less democratic (Johansson, 2004;Biesta et al, 2014) than expected. Also, we can see here that social learning cannot be seen in a vacuum, and therefore is a vulnerable activity (Pesch, 2015;Wildemeersch, 2009).…”