Search for dissertations about: "transformative innovation policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words transformative innovation policy.
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1. Evaluating transformative innovation policy: towards an integrated framework
Abstract : Past reviews show that the current practice of science, technology, and innovation policy evaluation lags behind the development of innovation theory. The emergence of the transformative innovation policy paradigm, which aims at addressing transformative change or ‘grand challenges’, implies new challenges for policy evaluation. READ MORE
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2. Transformative innovation policy evaluation: characteristics, challenges, and lessons from practice
Abstract : The emergence of the transformative innovation policy (TIP) framing, which builds upon previous science, technology, and innovation policy (STI) approaches to address transformative change or “grand challenges,” implies new challenges for policy evaluation. While most frameworks for TIP evaluation are quite similar to those of previous STI policy evaluation approaches, it is here argued that issues such as capturing the effect of such policies, such as related to the direction of transformative change and its additionality, remains unaddressed in the literature. READ MORE
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3. Innovation for tackling grand challenges : Cleantech industry dynamics and regional context
Abstract : Grand challenges such as climate change put focus away from innovations and innovation policy as engines of economic growth towards fulfilling societal goals and sighting sustainable development. The literature on the geography of innovation has provided valuable insights on innovation activities of firms and industries and how they are positively influenced by co-location. READ MORE
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4. The Transformative Imagination : Re-imagining the world towards sustainability
Abstract : A central task for sustainability science in the Anthropocene is to offer guidance on alternative pathways of change. Even though this search and implementation of pathways towards sustainability is likely to require profound social-ecological transformations, little is yet known about the individual and collective capacities needed to support such transformations. READ MORE
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5. Pursuing a Circular Economy in the Danish Waste Sector : Scale and Transition Dynamics in Transformative Innovation Policy
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to advance the conceptual understanding of transformative innovation policy through empirical research focusing on the transition towards a circular economy in the Danish waste sector. Under this broad aim, the thesis is more specifically concerned with exploring issues relating to the geography of transformative innovation policy as well as transition dynamics and agency in socio-technical system change. READ MORE