04 - Responsible System Innovation and Sustainable Transitions - Theories and Challenges

Systems. Why?

• Societal challenges require a constellation of innovations
• Controversies often exceed single innovations
• A broader analysis is needed

Socio-technical systems consist of configurations: actors, technologies, institutions, and interactions

These actors interact, compete, collaborate... These take place inside certain technological domains.

Sustainability transitions

The sustainability Transitions usially implies:

• Destabilisation phase
• Build up phase

Multi-level perspective

1. Landscape level
   • Stable Public values, policies...
2. Regime level
   • The dominant way of doing things
3. Niche level
   • Things that try to challenge the existing system and eventually become normant

Directionality

Transitions are not driven by a single innovation, rather by a constellation of innovations.

There are sometimes competing or alternative solutions.

It isn't neutral: normative, political

It has major moral implications

• Creative destruction of markets
• Winners and losers
• Power shifts

Embracing contestation with reflexive governance

• 1st order reflexivity: What can I do to do better
• 2nd order: What do I understand by sustainability in the first place?

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