Policy Mixes, Policy Interplay and Low Carbon Transitions: The Case of Passenger Transport in Finland
By Paula Kivimaa, Venla Virkamäki. 2014
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The promotion of low-carbon transport systems is largely dependent on the interplay between technology, innovation, markets, people's behaviour and policy. Various policies jointly influence the development of transport systems, some policies implying different or even contradictory designs for future transport systems. Policy interplay has not been much addressed in previous research on sustainability transitions. This article combines the technological innovation system (TIS) functions, within the transitions framework, with policy analysis to empirically map multiple policies and their intended paths towards low-carbon transport systems. Empirically, the article provides a systematic review of Finnish national-level policies for transport and transport-related innovation. The discussion examines the contribution of the current policy mix to sustainability transitions based on its degree of attempt to re-design the transport system. The findings reveal that policy support is more comprehensive regarding more energy-efficient vehicles and low-carbon fuels than based on reduced transport demand or alternative transport modes. A holistic policy approach towards low-carbon transitions is only achieved to a degree and innovation policy gaps are identified
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Analyzing interdependencies between policy mixes and technological innovation systems: the case of offshore wind in Germany (2016, background): “Although policies are part of the institutional structures that make up a TIS and play an important role in TIS analyses, only few studies have focused on policies and their impact on the rest of the TIS (Foxon et al., 2005; Kivimaa and Virkamäki, 2013).”