Paula Kivimaa

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of "motors of creative destruction" is introduced to expand innovation and technology policy debates to go beyond policy mixes consisting of technology push and demand pull instruments, and to consider a wider range of policy instruments combined in a suitable mix which may contribute to sustainability transitions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a transition intermediary type typology that is sensitive to the emergence, neutrality and goals of intermediary actors as well as their context and level of action.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of intermediaries working between actors, such as producers and users, entrepreneurs and adopters, idea generators and funders, has been examined in system-level transitions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the mix of existing policies aimed at stimulating reductions in energy use in buildings in Finland and the United Kingdom and found that both countries have increasingly complex policy mixes encompassing a variety of goals and instruments and make use of a range of different instrument types to encourage users to reduce energy consumption.