Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analysing technological change
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It is described that the emergence of a new innovation system and changes in existing innovation systems co-evolve with the process of technological change, and a method for systematically mapping those processes taking place in innovation systems and resulting in technological change is proposed.About:
This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2007-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Innovation system & Technological innovation system.read more
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Innovation system formation in international development cooperation: The role of intermediaries in urban sanitation
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The transformation of urban basic service sectors towards more sustainability is one of the ‘grand challenges’ for public policy, globally. A particular urgent problem is the provision of sanitation in cities in low-income countries. The globally dominant centralised sewerage approach has proven incapable to reach many of the urban poor. Recently, an increasing number of actors in international development cooperation has started to develop alternative safely managed non-grid approaches. We approach their efforts as an emerging ‘global innovation system’ and investigate how its development can be supported by systemic intermediaries. We analyse the activities of the ‘Sustainable Sanitation Alliance’, an international network that coordinates activities in the sanitation sector and thereby supports this innovation system. The findings show how demand ing it is to fulfil an intermediary role in a global innovation system, because of the need to consider system processes at different scales, in each phase of system building.
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Assessment of the social capabilities for catching-up through sustainability innovations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare newly industrializing countries as to their capabilities for integrating sustainability innovations into their catching-up processes and provide an approach to assess their absorption potential for sustainability innovations.
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Commercialising new energy technologies: failure of the Japanese machine?
Paul Harborne,Chris Hendry +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that Japan's exemplar image is not justified in the energy sector because of fundamental weaknesses in Japanese institutions and failures in four of the eight technological innovation systems functions necessary for successful commercialisation.
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Accelerating the development and deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies : an innovation system perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the growth and performance of five countries in the United States, Canada, Norway, Australia, and the Netherlands in terms of CCS innovation systems.
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Systems of environmental innovation: sectoral and technological perspectives on ballast water treatment systems
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how public policy and institutional acceptance have shaped the market for ballast water treatment systems (BWTS), designed to prevent the negative impacts of invasive species, as an example of such complex interaction.
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