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The role of cities in developing radical innovations: An analysis of niche-development in urban areas based on the Multi-Level Perspective

Clausen, Christian LU (2015) UTVK03 20151
Sociology
Abstract
Thinking up new ideas and solutions might be hard; replacing old ones even more so. Ecological Modernization theory has helped significantly with the former, and now transition scholars are trying to resolve the latter. There is no longer a shortage of ideas on how to tackle issues of sustainability; however, these ideas are often translate into radical technologies that are incompatible with existing societal systems and cultures. These radical innovations need to be protected in form of niches, and brought into society as an increasing amount of people start to adopt and make sense of them. With its high concentration of heterogeneous actors, the city should – in theory – provide an ideal platform for niche development. This paper will... (More)
Thinking up new ideas and solutions might be hard; replacing old ones even more so. Ecological Modernization theory has helped significantly with the former, and now transition scholars are trying to resolve the latter. There is no longer a shortage of ideas on how to tackle issues of sustainability; however, these ideas are often translate into radical technologies that are incompatible with existing societal systems and cultures. These radical innovations need to be protected in form of niches, and brought into society as an increasing amount of people start to adopt and make sense of them. With its high concentration of heterogeneous actors, the city should – in theory – provide an ideal platform for niche development. This paper will discuss problems associated with niche development in urban areas, and offer a new way of conceptualizing cities by expanding on existing concepts of the multi-level perspective. (Less)
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author
Clausen, Christian LU
supervisor
organization
course
UTVK03 20151
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
ecological modernization, multi-level perspective, urban, transition studies
language
English
id
5473578
date added to LUP
2015-06-26 08:54:34
date last changed
2015-06-26 08:54:34
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  abstract     = {{Thinking up new ideas and solutions might be hard; replacing old ones even more so. Ecological Modernization theory has helped significantly with the former, and now transition scholars are trying to resolve the latter. There is no longer a shortage of ideas on how to tackle issues of sustainability; however, these ideas are often translate into radical technologies that are incompatible with existing societal systems and cultures. These radical innovations need to be protected in form of niches, and brought into society as an increasing amount of people start to adopt and make sense of them. With its high concentration of heterogeneous actors, the city should – in theory – provide an ideal platform for niche development. This paper will discuss problems associated with niche development in urban areas, and offer a new way of conceptualizing cities by expanding on existing concepts of the multi-level perspective.}},
  author       = {{Clausen, Christian}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The role of cities in developing radical innovations: An analysis of niche-development in urban areas based on the Multi-Level Perspective}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}