Keeping sustainable innovation on a leash? Exploring incumbents’ institutional strategies

By M. Smink, Marko P. Hekkert, Simona Negro. 2015

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Circular Economy: Measuring Innovation in the Product Chain (2017, positive): “…different product, features a transition as a struggle between existing and new technology, and between the vested interests around existing technology and challengers and new entrants in the field (Chandy and Tellis, 2000; Penna and Geels, 2012; Shaz and Maw, 2012; Smink et al., 2013).”
Modelling the dynamics of technological innovation systems (2016, background): “…competitive relationship, an existing regime responds to an emerging innovation system by stepping up its efforts to lobby against an emerging TIS (Smink et al., 2013; Geels, 2014) and increase innovative efforts on the dominant socio-technical configuration, for instance through a renewed wave…”
Policy mixes for incumbency: Exploring the destructive recreation of renewable energy, shale gas ‘fracking,’ and nuclear power in the United Kingdom (2017, positive): “Large incumbent firms typically lobby to resist sustainability transitions (Smink 2015; Smink et al. 2015; Smink et al. 2013).”
Discursive regime dynamics in the Dutch energy transition (2014, positive): “As key actors we focus on incumbents in the Dutch energy system (Arentsen et al., 2001; Smink et al., 2013).”
Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis (2020, background): “While many incumbent firms are resistant to change (Karltorp and Sanden, 2012; Smink et al., 2015; Steen and Weaver, 2017), some incorporate disruptive innovations in their operations and move into new industries to exploit new opportunities and engage in defensive maintenance strategies to avoid…”
Moving innovation systems research to the next level: towards an integrative agenda (2017, neutral): “Some more elaborate inroads have furthermore been provided in recent TIS research, where attempts at providing a micro-foundation for TIS have been proposed (Farla et al. , 2012), or the role of incumbents has gained more attention (Smink et al. , 2015; Wesseling et al. , 2015).”
Exploring the role of phase-out policies for low-carbon energy transitions: the case of the German Energiewende (2017, neutral): “…of ‘ path dependency ’ [56] and ‘ lock in ’ [20], attention has turned towards understanding the dynamics of the regime level in terms of strategies of incumbent actors [57 – 60] (also see Johnstone et al. in this issue) and active ‘ regime resistance ’ preventing or delaying transitions [18].”
Mobilizing private finance for low-carbon innovation – A systematic review of barriers and solutions (2017, positive): “Early niche market creation and strategic niche management is suggested to challenge incumbents and regime technologies [108,177,180,183] and as an opportunity for financiers to solve the lock-in [22,53].”
How mismatching institutional logics hinder niche–regime interaction and how boundary spanners intervene (2015, methodology): “By addressing the activities of boundary spanners we add to the research on agency in transitions (e.g. Markard et al., 2012; Farla et al., 2012; Smink et al., 2015; Wesseling et al., 2014, in press).”
What is challenging renewable energy entrepreneurs in developing countries (2016, background): “However, incumbent entities do not provide effective alternatives to the fossil-fired status quo and, as Smink et al. have claimed, they are slow, resistant or unable to change [14,109].”
The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014) (2016, background): “Different degrees of institutional pressure in the transformation pathway are likely to involve struggles between policymakers and industry actors (Smink et al., 2015).”
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan (2020, background): “This could examine more closely the influence of strategies deliberately employed by regime actors to lock-in particular energy systems [67] as well as opportunities or strategies taken to counter these.”