A5110436872- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Research in Social Sciences
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Service and Product Innovation
- European and International Law Studies
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Environmental Science and Water Management
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
University of Helsinki
2015-2024
National Consumer Research Centre
2015-2024
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2023
GfK (Czechia)
2016-2020
Lund University
2014-2019
Research Institute of Industrial Economics
2014-2015
Aalto University
2011-2014
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
2009
Research Council of Finland
2002
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted 'living lab' approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced 306 households in eight countries: lower indoor temperatures and laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates usefulness of practice-centered design takes habits routines as an entry point for understanding how different 'elements practices' can be re-crafted. We discuss...
Abstract Environmental policy makers and marketers are attracted by the notion of green consumerism. Yet, consumerism is a contested concept, allowing for wide range translations in everyday discursive practices. This paper examines how young consumers construct their images It makes close reading three narratives reflecting available subject positions consumers: Antihero, Hero Anarchist. reveals problems prevailing fragmented, gendered individualistic notions consumerism, discusses...
This article examines how local experiments and negotiation processes contribute to social field-level learning. The analysis is framed within the niche development literature, which offers a framework for analyzing relation between projects in contexts transfer of experiences into generally applicable rules. authors examine 2 case studies drawn from meta-analysis 27 new energy projects. studies, both pertaining biogas municipalities, illustrate diversity applications technology through...
Local climate experimentation is a topical issue as cities and rural municipalities are increasingly engaging in various local energy experiments order to act against change. There high expectations toward among the policy makers, funders actors. Intermediary organisations have an important role facilitators, brokers, instigators network builders low-energy low-carbon experiments. However, there still limited understanding of exactly what work innovation intermediary contributing Our paper...
Purpose Consumers are sometimes unexpectedly resistant toward radically innovative product concepts, and it is often argued that this due to their difficulties in understanding the novel products. Thus, marketing research has focused on new ways make consumers familiar with concepts. The purpose of study present argument educating may not solve all problems, even address wrong question. Design/methodology/approach authors' previous consumer responses concepts for purchasing consumption food...
The behaviour of incumbent energy companies is critical for a transition to sustainable system. We address the recent call closer conceptualisation power and agency within studies by combining concepts strategic action fields (Fligstein McAdam, 2012) flat-ontology perspective arenas development (Jørgensen, identify potential ruptures emerging on micro scale in field energy. investigate how new actor configurations experimental open rules renegotiation. provide long-term analysis traditional...
Two streams of literature have become especially prominent in understanding social change toward sustainability within the past decades: research on socio-technical transitions and applications practice theory. The aim this article is to contribute efforts create dialogue between these two approaches. We do by focusing concept reconfiguration, which has a much-used, but poorly defined notion discussion transitions. To understand what as reconfiguration systems practices, how regimes could...
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences Humanities (SSH)-including critical reflections on what changing a society's relation to (efficiency) even means-have been underutilised. In particular, (i) SSH too often sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, other decision-makers when driving agendas, (ii) setting SSH-focused agendas has not historically embedded inclusive deliberative processes. The aim this...
Abstract This paper reconceptualises the topical issue of user involvement in innovation. We argue that there is more to than mechanistic application methods and tools. Drawing on four case studies, we explore range configurations user-inclusive innovation communities can encompass. show not a panacea for innovation, no 'one-size-fits-all' method. Nor ability contribute an inherent quality users themselves. It constituted by actions producer company fostering interaction responding users'...