Transforming technological regimes for sustainable development: A role for alternative technology niches?

By Adrian Smith. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda (2017, unknown): “In transitions research a key focus has been on experimentation with new ideas and technologies in niches (Smith, 2003).”
Green Niches in Sustainable Development: The Case of Organic Food in the United Kingdom (2006, background): “A more refined hypothesis is that highly divergent sustainable niches will have to offer considerable positive feedbacks, in terms of development potential and scope for profitable application, before mainstream actors break from the existing regime and move into the divergent niche (Smith, 2003).”
Converging Agendas? Energy and Climate Change Policies in the UK (2009, background): “Innovation niches are defined as a small scale learning spaces for new technologies, which comprises either a single experiment or project, or a cluster of several experiments (Kemp et al., 1998; Rip and Kemp, 1998; Rohracher, 2001; Schot et al., 1994; Smith, 2003; Weber, 2003; Wiskerke, 2003).”
Co-producing Transition: Innovation Processes in Farms Adhering to Solidarity-based Purchase Groups (GAS) in Tuscany, Italy (2011, background): “The meeting of AAFNs literature and transition theories (Rip and Kemp, 1998; Smith, 2003, 2006; Geels, 2004; Moors et al., 2004; Wiskerke and Van der Ploeg, 2004; Seyfang, 2006) has opened a new research field by developing analytical tools to better study the contribution of AAFNs to broader…”
Green technologies and Smart Specialisation Strategies: a European patent-based analysis of the intertwining of technological relatedness and key enabling technologies (2018, background): “Within this framework, the so-called Multilevel Perspective (MLP) of eco-innovation (Geels, 2005; Smith, 2003) has recently recognised that the “niches” from which sustainable “socio-technical regimes” evolve often have, at least initially, a local-scale dimension (Coenen et al.”
Socio-Technological Regimes and Transition Contexts (2004, background): “Activists have sought to seed transformations from above (Doherty, 2002; Smith, 2003).”
Consuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production (2004, background): “Smith (2002) argues that social and economic niches for alternative technologies and consumption patterns such as these can be carved out, and provide valuable pioneering examples which the mainstream may learn from and potentially adopt in the future.”
Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector (2015, background): “In this paper we draw upon a body of work within social studies of technology concerned with the transformation of technological regimes, which emphasises the role of innovative technological niches in effecting socio-technical transitions (Smith, 2003; Geels, 2005; Grin et al., 2010).”
Sustainability Entrepreneurs, Ecopreneurs and the Development of a Sustainable Economy (2006, background): “…useful to draw on a body of work within social studies of technology which has been concerned with the transformation of technological regimes and, within this, has emphasised the role of innovative technological strategic niches in transition management (Rip and Kemp 1998; Smith 2003; Geels 2005).”