Innovation Studies, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Transitions Research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?

Attila Havas, Doris Schartinger and Matthias K. Weber

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Abstract: This article is a first attempt towards building an integrative analytical framework to study goal-orientated transformative change (GOTC) processes, defined as system-transforming processes that are guided by the ambition to resolve current or expected future societal challenges. GOTC can only start once a broad range of possible goals are considered by key stakeholders and major relevant actors are committed to act. Hence, there is a need for widening the scope of the current, partial conceptual models to consider the co-evolutionary interactions between technology, economy, and society to better understand and effectively guide and/or assess GOTC. This claim is based on our focussed review of Innovation Studies, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Transitions research. We offer four building blocks for a new, integrative framework to analyse GOTC: its overarching goal; objects, types, and levels of change; mechanisms of change; and a set of criteria to assess change.

Keywords: An integrative analytical framework; Innovation studies; Social innovation research; Sustainability transitions; research; Focussed literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 H12 I31 O30 O33 O35 O38 O44 P11 Q01 Q50 Q54 Q55 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08
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