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Steering innovations towards a green economy : Understanding government intervention

Droste, Nils LU orcid ; Hansjürgens, Bernd ; Kuikman, Peter ; Otter, Nils ; Antikainen, Riina ; Leskinen, Pekka ; Pitkänen, Kati ; Saikku, Laura ; Loiseau, Eleonore and Thomsen, Marianne (2016) In Journal of Cleaner Production 135. p.426-434
Abstract

In this paper we analyse institutional conditions facilitating the transition towards a green economy by encouraging investment in the enhancement of natural capital and social equity, focussing especially on government interventions. Presenting a conceptual institutional model how innovation generally occurs, we depict system levels that can be influenced by government interventions to facilitate societal innovations towards a green economy. We hypothesize that the transition to a green economy is about extending the possibility frontier outwards towards a greener economy while at the same time limiting the “action space” at the brown economy end; a normative evaluation framework is presented to assess transitions correspondingly. We... (More)

In this paper we analyse institutional conditions facilitating the transition towards a green economy by encouraging investment in the enhancement of natural capital and social equity, focussing especially on government interventions. Presenting a conceptual institutional model how innovation generally occurs, we depict system levels that can be influenced by government interventions to facilitate societal innovations towards a green economy. We hypothesize that the transition to a green economy is about extending the possibility frontier outwards towards a greener economy while at the same time limiting the “action space” at the brown economy end; a normative evaluation framework is presented to assess transitions correspondingly. We elaborate on the emerging lessons for governance by examining evidence from five selected European case studies, and provide a non-exhaustive list of impacts that government intervention may have on the action spaces available at different system levels.

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Governance, Green economy, Innovation, Natural capital, Social equity, Transition management
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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135
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426 - 434
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Elsevier
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  • scopus:84990178122
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0959-6526
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10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.123
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English
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