Societal Innovation: between dream and reality lies complexity

By Jan Rotmans. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Complexity and Transition Management (2009, background): “A transition is a radical, structural change of a societal (sub)system that is the result of a coevolution of economic, cultural, technological, ecological, and institutional developments at different scale levels (Rotmans et al. 2001; Rotmans 2006).”
Tools for Integrated Sustainability Assessment: A two-track approach (2006, background): “36 Kemp, R., Loorbach, D. & Rotmans, J. (2006), ‘Transition management as a model for managing processes of co-evolution towards sustainable development’, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology.”
Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions (2009, background): “They represent functional relationships among actors, structures, and working practices that are closely interwoven (Rotmans 2005).”
Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector (2009, background): “a high level of risk (in terms of failure) that can make a potentially large contribution to a transition process’’ ( Rotmans 2005: 50 ).”
Restructuring energy systems for sustainability? Energy transition policy in the Netherlands (2008, background): “In theory, experiments are characterised by a high risk of failure as well as a high potential (Rotmans, 2005).”
Putting an energy system transformation into practice: The case of the German Energiewende (2016, background): “A widespread approach in socio-technical research is the transition management framework [26,27], a governance approach foreseeing the organization of concrete, local transition arenas to induce societal change process in practice.”
Assessing the Dutch Energy Transition Policy: How Does it Deal with Dilemmas of Managing Transitions? (2007, methodology): “None the less it would have been better if more niche parties could have been involved as one can expect them to embrace radical innovation, since they have no interest in the status quo ( Rotmans, 2005 ).”
Transition management as a model for managing processes of co-evolution towards sustainable development (2007, background): “; actor and structure (Giddens 1984); technology and society (Rip and Kemp 1998; van de Ven and Garud 1994; von Tunzelmann 2001); and ecology, economy and society (Norgaard 1984; Kemp and Soete 1992; Gowdy 1994; Kemp and Rotmans 2005).”