Abstract
Sustainability oriented innovation and technology studies have received increasing attention over the past 10-15 years. In particular, a new field dealing with "sustainability transitions" has gained ground and reached an output of 60-100 academic papers per year. In this article, we aim to identify the intellectual contours of this emerging field by conducting a review of basic conceptual frameworks, together with bibliographical analysis of 540 journal articles in the field. It is against this background that we position the six papers assembled in a special section in Research Policy. These papers pave the way for new conceptual developments and serve as stepping-stones in the maturation of sustainability transition studies, by linking with the scholarly literatures of management studies, sociology, policy studies, economic geography, and modeling.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 955-967 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Research Policy |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Innovation studies
- Literature review
- Sustainability