Roles of Systemic Intermediaries in Transition Processes

Lente, Harro van; Hekkert, Marko P.; Smits, Ruud; Waveren, Bas van

doi:10.1142/s1363919603000817

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“…Intermediating third parties (cf. van Lente et al, 2003;Altenburg and Pegels, 2012;Kivimaa, 2014) could ensure motivational and strategic alignment of different partners and coordinate the collaboration. Furthermore, these parties could help to overcome the (causality) dilemma where both, potential off-taker and investor, require a proof-of-concept and existing contracts by mediating between the different actors.…”

Section: Capital-intensity: Collaboration Compliance and Alignment mentioning

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Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Kant

2017

Front. Energy Res.

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The successful transition to a low-carbon economy hinges on innovative solutions and collaborative action on a global scale. Sustainable entrepreneurship is thereby recognized as a key driver in the creation and transformation of ecologically and socially sustainable economic systems. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this topic by understanding commercialization barriers for strong sustainability-oriented new technology ventures and to derive recommendations to overcome them. A qualitative multilevel approach is applied to identify barriers and drivers within the internal dynamic capabilities of the organization and within the organization's external stakeholders. A model of barriers has been developed based on semi-structured interviews with new carbon dioxide utilization ventures and associated industry players in Canada, the USA, and the European Economic Area. Resulting recommendations to facilitate the (re-)design of a dedicated support system are proposed on four levels: (a) actors, (b) resources, (c) institutional settings, and (d) the coordination of the support system.

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Section: Capital-intensity: Collaboration Compliance and Alignment mentioning

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Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Kant

2017

Front. Energy Res.

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“…Innovation intermediation literature appears as a subset of innovation studies, aiming at understanding the actors, repertoires, domains, and extent of intermediation practice [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. Another scholar stream, less focused on agency, brings about the discussion about knowledge mediation started by Latour [51] and intermediation [52][53][54].…”

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What It Takes to Lead Sustainability Transitions from the Bottom-Up: Strategic Interactions of Grassroots Ecopreneurs

Rámos-Mejía

Balanzó

2018

Sustainability

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This paper studies features of grassroots ecopreneurs' leadership in their attempt to ignite transformations in production-consumption systems from the bottom up. It builds on a comprehensive approach of change agency based on institutional work, innovation, and learning intermediation literature. The paper describes grassroots ecopreneurs' interaction strategies to resource business models for sustainability. Empirical data comes from an action research project that consisted of implementing a sustainability experiment in Sur de Bolívar (Colombia). The experiment shows grassroots ecopreneurs' arrays of activities around making sense, shaping, securing support, nurturing, expanding, and scaling the value proposition, the business infrastructure, the customer interface and the financial model of their ventures. Our findings suggest that leading businesses transition into a more sustainable field requires grassroots ecopreneurs acting as change agents by performing a diverse array of boundary, practice, and knowledge circulation strategies, aiming at securing the societal and environmental impact of their ventures. Change agency manifests in the ways ecopreneurs maneuver to bring about transformations and strive to sustain it. The study contributes to a better understanding of processes of socio-technical change for sustainability in highly diverse institutional contexts, such as (but not exclusively) the developing world. An agency-based approach is proposed as an alternative to a managerial approach.

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“…A number of studies have explored the need for system level intermediaries to support the transition from intra to inter-organizational networks of innovation (Klerkx & Leeuwis 2009;van Lente et al 2003;Todeva 2013). As outlined in a study by Kivimaa (2014), a systemic intermediary supports innovation at the higher system level by articulating demand, developing strategy, identifying, aligning and mobilising actors, building consensus, managing complex and long term innovation projects and creating an environment for learning by doing and using.…”

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Leveraging triple helix and system intermediaries to enhance effectiveness of protected spaces and strategic niche management for transitioning to circular economy

Barrie

Zawdie

João

2017

International Journal of Technology Management &Amp; Sustainable Development

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The transition to circular economy has been heralded as a vision to overcome the challenges of rapid population growth, economic stagnation and environmental degradation. A promising policy tool for accelerating such a transition is Strategic Niche Management (SNM), the central tenet of which is the formation of ‘protected spaces’ to support the growth of sustainable innovation. Studies have demonstrated that current top-down policy approaches to governing protected spaces have led to the unintended consequences of network tensions, low quality learning processes and low innovation adoption rates outside protected spaces. This limits the impact of SNM as a transition tool. Through a detailed literature review, this paper looks into a novel devolved governance framework for protected spaces in the context of transition to circular economy. The framework addresses current limitations of SNM by acknowledging the synergistic relationship with the triple helix innovation system; and innovation intermediation. Transition to circular economy turns on the achievement of ‘triple helix consensus’ across ‘protected spaces’ to provide the requisite platform for sustained innovation and for the recurrent choice of knowledge and market systems that are consistent with the circular economy growth trajectory

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Roles of Systemic Intermediaries in Transition Processes

Cited by 304 publications

References 10 publications

Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Overcoming Barriers to Successfully Commercializing Carbon Dioxide Utilization

What It Takes to Lead Sustainability Transitions from the Bottom-Up: Strategic Interactions of Grassroots Ecopreneurs

Leveraging triple helix and system intermediaries to enhance effectiveness of protected spaces and strategic niche management for transitioning to circular economy

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