We are witnessing an increasing adoption of digital technologies in manufacturing industries
around the globe. This trend is often debated under the label Industry 4.0. A key claim put …

This paper firstly assesses the usefulness of Christensen's disruptive innovation framework
for low-carbon system change, identifying three conceptual limitations with regard to the unit …

Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic
Geography and Transition Studies. Regional Studies. This paper develops a theoretical …

Industrial society has not only led to high levels of wealth and welfare in the Western world,
but also to increasing global ecological degradation and social inequality. The socio …

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are a promising and innovative approach to address multiple
sustainability challenges faced by cities. Yet, NBS are not integrated into mainstream urban …

The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the
past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale …

This paper addresses interactions between technological innovation systems (TIS) and
wider “context structures”. While TIS studies have always considered various kinds of …

The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a prominent transition framework. The MLP posits that
transitions come about through interaction processes within and among three analytical …

The technological innovation systems (TIS) framework is one of the key approaches in
sustainability transition studies. However, scholars have so far mostly concentrated on the …

Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal
challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012). They reflect a …