Niche Management and its Contribution to Regime Change: The Case of Innovation in Sanitation

Hegger, D.L.T.; Vliet, Jenneke Van; Vliet, B.J.M. van

doi:10.1080/09537320701711215

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“…Expectations are more forceful when they are stable and shared among producers, users, civil society actors and regulators 22,23 . A recurrent strategy of niche actors is to embed these expectations in larger societal narratives that provide broader cultural legitimacy 24,25,26 . Cultural legitimacy refers to a generalized narrative that niche developments are desirable 27 .…”

Section: Users Building Up Niche Marketsmentioning

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The roles of users in shaping transitions to new energy systems

2016

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Current government information policies and market-based instruments aimed at influencing energy choices of consumers often ignore the fact that consumer behavior is not fully reducible to individuals making rational conscious decisions all the time. Rather, the decisions of consumers are largely configured by shared routines embedded in socio-technical systems. To achieve a transition towards a decarbonized and energy-efficient system, an approach is needed that goes beyond individual consumer choice and puts shared routines and system change at its center.Here, adopting a transitions perspective, we argue that consumers should be reconceptualized as users who are important stakeholders in the innovation process and are shaping new routines and enacting system change. We review the role of users in the building up of new decarbonized and energy-efficient systems and provide a typology of user roles.

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Section: Users Building Up Niche Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The roles of users in shaping transitions to new energy systems

2016

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“…What is apparent from one strand of transition research (for example : Mlecnik, 2014;Hegger et al, 2007;Elzen et al, 2004;Raven, 2005;Weber et al, 1999) is that socio-technical experiments or innovation journeys only evolve into actual technological or market niches in a few cases. Researchers identify an important need for the articulation of expectations and sustainability visions, learning processes with multiple dimensions, and the development of multiplayer networks (Hegger et al, 2007;Elzen et al, 2004;Kemp et al, 1998;Caniëls and Romijn, 2008;Raven, 2005;Weber et al, 1999).…”

Section: Activities In Multiplayer Network Leading To Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within networks, decisions and strategies are developed, negotiated and implemented, leading to changes in societal structures (Loorbach, 2010). Within this framework, communication in market niches -using multiplayer networks -is considered particularly effective (Caniëls and Romijn, 2008;Schot and Geels, 2008;Hegger et al, 2007;Elzen et al, 2004;Kemp et al, 1998;Verheul and Vergragt, 1995).…”

Section: Activities In Multiplayer Network Leading To Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers identify an important need for the articulation of expectations and sustainability visions, learning processes with multiple dimensions, and the development of multiplayer networks (Hegger et al, 2007;Elzen et al, 2004;Kemp et al, 1998;Caniëls and Romijn, 2008;Raven, 2005;Weber et al, 1999). Within networks, decisions and strategies are developed, negotiated and implemented, leading to changes in societal structures (Loorbach, 2010).…”

Section: Activities In Multiplayer Network Leading To Transitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Activating the adoption of innovation: lessons from a passive house network

Mlecnik

2016

Built Environment Project and Asset Management

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Purpose The paper aims to explore innovation adoption theory and to define a model to investigate operational activities and communication in innovation networks that can stimulate both supply and demand. It also aims to exemplify this model with the activities of an innovation network dedicated to promoting passive houses. Design/methodology/approach Autoethnography and literature research were used to develop a model in order to conduct a structured analysis of operational activities and facilitate innovation-decision processes using networks. Data on the activities used to steer client decisions and businesses’ innovation were gathered from network archives and from the results of social research methods applied within a passive house network. Findings The findings reveal that operational activities of multi-player networks should focus on reinforcing conditions and communicative activities that support innovation-decision processes from one step to the next. In order to activate supply and demand, communication strategies can be modelled to increase the adoption of innovation and continued knowledge generation in networks. Research limitations/implications Because only one network was evaluated and only the housing sector was exemplified, it may not be possible to generalise the research results. Researchers are therefore encouraged to test the proposed model further. Practical implications The paper includes the implications of developing activities in innovation networks, in order to guide both businesses and customers through the steps of the adoption-decision process. Originality/value This paper connects the innovation adoption to activities of a network in in the field of construction.

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“…They point to the importance of a sense of urgency and the role that a process of structured repeated visions might play. Similarly, Hegger and van Vliet (2007) state that the major focus on experiments with technological enhancement in many demonstration projects gives not rise to broad learning and outsider involvement. They suggest redirecting the focus of niche experiments towards concepts, visions and guiding principles rather than on defined technologies, and toward experimentations with social aspects and acceptance before without neglecting the socio-technical character of the transition process.…”

Section: Environmental Management and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Transitions: A Survey of an Emerging Field of Research

Falcone¹

2014

EMSD

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With the aim of achieving a sustainable future, the field of transition studies is gathering increasing attention. Particularly, a new research area dealing with "sustainability transitions" has gained ground and reached an output of 70-120 academic articles annually.In this survey, by carrying out a analysis of fundamental approaches to study transitions (in particular sustainability transitions) we aim at identifying the academic contours of this evolving field of research by highlighting relations among well-known strands of research and by providing some general criticism as well as strengths and contributions from transition research approaches to provide an impetus towards further research in this field.

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Niche Management and its Contribution to Regime Change: The Case of Innovation in Sanitation

Cited by 102 publications

References 15 publications

The roles of users in shaping transitions to new energy systems

The roles of users in shaping transitions to new energy systems

Activating the adoption of innovation: lessons from a passive house network

Sustainability Transitions: A Survey of an Emerging Field of Research

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