Governments in countries across the world increasingly adopt "green growth" discourse to underline their ambition for greening of economies. The central tenet this narrative is economic opportunities rather than challenges arising from pursuit environmental sustainability. Our paper synthesises insights 113 recent scientific articles, dealing with both issues and growth, as well innovation. exploratory attempting take stock heterogeneous contributions spectrum social science. articles have...

In many countries, the lock-down due to COVID-19 pandemic triggered discussions on use of digital interaction formats for academic exchange. The pace with which researchers adopted conferences, lectures, and meetings revealed that currently available tools can substitute physical interactions in workplace. It also showed academics are willing scientific This article sheds light scholars' experiences during pandemic. We argue increase inclusivity knowledge exchange, reduce time costs...

Classic accounts of transitions research have predominantly built on reconstructions historical transition processes and in-depth case studies to identify conceptualize socio-technical change. While such approaches substantively improved our understanding transitions, they often suffer from methodological nationalism a lack generalizability beyond spatial sectoral boundaries. To address this gap, we propose novel methodology – configuration analysis (STCA) map measure alignment across time...

Research in economic geography has recently been challenged to adopt more institutional and multiscalar perspectives on industrial path development. This article contributes this debate by integrating insights from (evolutionary) as well transition innovation studies into a conceptual framework of how creation emerging industries depends the availability both knowledge legitimacy. Unlike extant literature, we argue here that not only former but also latter may substantially depend nonlocal...

The technological innovation systems (TIS) framework is one of the dominant perspectives in transitions studies to analyze success conditions and system failures newly emerging technologies industries. So far, TIS mostly adopted a rather harmonious view on values actors by this were unable address competition, conflicts and, particular, battles over diverging directionalities within system. To empirically assess potential "harmony fallacy", we identify as part underlying institutional logics...

Innovation studies is increasingly acknowledging the multi-scalar nature of systemic contexts, in which innovations are being developed and deployed. This paper builds on further develops a recently proposed framework for studying global innovation systems (GIS). It aims at explaining emergence GIS by outlining specific local resource-related conditions that lead to creation structural couplings, i.e. actors, networks institutions allow resource flows. Deploying qualitative case study,...

Socio-technical regimes are highly institutionalized rationalities that have co-evolved with actors, technologies and institutions over extended periods of time become taken for granted across geographical contexts. Transition studies feature an extensive focus on regime dynamics within specific territorial However, we know surprisingly little how constructed, diffused reproduced space. This is a key gap in the geography sustainability transitions literature. paper introduces conceptual...

The global space sector has to increasingly consider sustainability concerns in the orbit, given rising challenge of debris. In which direction management debris will develop terms technological solutions, policies, and actor strategies remains still unclear. This paper applies concept 'global socio-technical regimes' better understand how actors frame, conceive, legitimize problem. More specifically, we apply a discourse based network analysis method –sociotechnical configuration – identify...

This article wishes, from the angle of subject Revelation History, to offer thoughts and ideas about aspects touching on shared issues various disciplines. The special nature material purpose Genesis 1 ff. does not necessarily imply that a closed suc­ cession days is meant. God Creator Ruler over all things, has historical destiny for earth. Man steward creation, an ecological task in responsible God. He communational relation God, free enslavement combination natural spiritual forces. There...