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2024(05): New methodological inroads to regional path development - Epistemological reflections on the contribution of semantic network analysis

Bernhard Truffer

2024(04): Regional Innovation Systems: Evolution, Transition, and Future Agenda

Chenyue Bai, Han Chu and Robert Hassink

2024(03): Regions in industrial transitions: exploring the uneven geographies of vulnerability, preparedness and responsiveness

Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Balazs Pager and Michaela Trippl

2024(02): Changing from within: the interplay between imaginary, culture and innovation system in regional transformation

Huiwen Gong and Bernhard Truffer

2024(01): This paper explores the dynamics that result in the entrenched positions that can be empirically observed in regions in the context of energy transition. We conduct our analysis along the concept of strategic action fields. Thereby we develop ‘Regional Transition Fields’ (RTF) that encompass all actors, activities and organisations in a region that share the concern for the transition. This could be any kind of regional transition process, but in this paper, we focus on the regional energy transition. Hence, the actors’ shared issue at stake is the future energy mix of the region. All actors that share this concern are considered to be part of the field. Our approach allows us to consider both those actors that promote an energy transition towards more sustainable energy sources and those that oppose it as part of the same field. They are aware of each other, of each other’s positions in the field and of the resources involved. We argue that, despite the apparent agreement on the issue at stake, conflicts and tensions arise within that field concerning the rules, regulations, and common reference frames against which behaviours are judged. Based on insights about conflicts in transitions, we argue that processes of adaptation and delimitation continually re-shape the structure of the field. In an empirical case study of Northern Hesse in Germany, we identify regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions of both processes. We thus contribute a perspective on the dynamics of institutionalisation in fields and a more nuanced understanding of the development of entrenched positions in regional energy transitions

Camilla Chlebna and Jannika Mattes

2023(10): Competing terms for complementary concepts? Acceptance and legitimacy of low-carbon energy technologies

Sven Alsheimer, Tamara Schnell, Camilla Chlebna and Sebastian Rohe

2022(11): Guidebook for applying the Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis method

Johan Miörner, Bernhard Truffer, Christian Binz, Jonas Heiberg and Xiao-Shan Yap

2022(02): Rethinking regional economic resilience: Preconditions and processes shaping transformative resilience

Trippl Michaela, Sebastian Fastenrath and Arne Isaksen

2021(11): Understanding transformation patterns in different socio-technical systems – A scheme of analysis

Johan Miörner, Christian Binz and Lea Fuenfschilling

2021(10): Transitions as a coevolutionary process: the urban emergence of electric vehicle inventions

Andrea Ferloni

2021(09): The emergence of a global innovation system – a case study from the water sector

Jonas Heiberg and Bernhard Truffer

2021(08): Global regime diffusion in space: a missed transition in San Diego’s water sector

Johan Miörner, Jonas Heiberg and Christian Binz

2021(07): Geography of eco-innovations vis-à-vis geography of sustainability transitions: Two sides of the same coin?

Hendrik Hansmeier

2021(06): Reconfiguring actors and infrastructure in city renewable energy transitions: a regional perspective

Christina E. Hoicka, Jessica Conroy and Anna Berka

2021(05): Grasping transformative regional development from a co-evolutionary perspective – a research agenda

Camilla Chlebna, Hanna Martin and Jannika Mattes

2021(04): The evolving role of networking organizations in advanced sustainability transitions

Sebastian Rohe and Camilla Chlebna

2021(03): Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems

Jonas Heiberg and Bernhard Truffer

2021(02): Opportunities and threats of the rapidly developing Space sector on sustainability transitions: Towards a research agenda

Xiao-Shan Yap and Bernhard Truffer

2021(01): New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges

Franz Tödtling, Michaela Trippl and Veronika Desch