Steering innovations towards a green economy : Understanding government intervention
(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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- author
- Droste, Nils LU ; Hansjürgens, Bernd ; Kuikman, Peter ; Otter, Nils ; Antikainen, Riina ; Leskinen, Pekka ; Pitkänen, Kati ; Saikku, Laura ; Loiseau, Eleonore and Thomsen, Marianne
- publishing date
- 2016-11-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Governance, Green economy, Innovation, Natural capital, Social equity, Transition management
- in
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- volume
- 135
- pages
- 426 - 434
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84990178122
- ISSN
- 0959-6526
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.123
- language
- English
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- b37aa1ca-da79-4799-8a8b-abe238ac92a9
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- 2019-09-02 16:51:38
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