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The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions

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In this paper, a quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is described in which regimes face selection pressures continuously and differentiated transition contexts determine the form and direction of regime change in response to these pressures.
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This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2005-12-01. It has received 1898 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Regime change & Transition management (governance).

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Social Finance Intermediaries and Social Innovation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ways in which foundations may partner with intermediaries to support social innovation for broad system change, and examine the efforts of a Canadian foundation to incorporate partnerships with intermediary organizations into its philanthropic investment strategy aimed at generating social innovation at three successive scales.
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How perceived uncertainties influence transitions; the case of micro-CHP in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the role of uncertainties in the pre-development phase of the micro-CHP in the Netherlands and demonstrate that different types of uncertainties influence the innovation decisions of the involved actors.
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Factors in low-carbon energy transformations: Comparing nuclear and bioenergy in Brazil, Sweden, and the United States

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relative importance of non-economic factors influencing technological change across technology and country contexts, and identified nine categories of factors that might contribute to large-scale changes in the energy system.
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An in-depth analysis of the evolution of the policy mix for the sustainable energy transition in China from 1981 to 2020

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of the national policy documents is conducted to investigate the policy mix adopted by the Chinese government to facilitate its energy transition and how that policy mix has evolved between 1981 and 2020.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance

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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.

TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration

TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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Evolution and the Theory of Games

TL;DR: A modification of the theory of games, a branch of mathematics first formulated by Von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1944 for the analysis of human conflicts, was proposed in this paper.
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