Summary Societal Challenges & Innovation
Theory
By Cem Kalender & Maurits van Schaik
,Content overview
Tutorial 1: The lock-in of non-sustainable technologies (Week 1 - Wednesday)
1. G.C. Unruh, 2000. Understanding carbon lock in, Energy Policy 28 (12) p. 817-830.C.R.
2. Penna, Frank W. Geels, 2015, Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry
(1979–2012): An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue Life Cycle (DILC) model, Research Policy,
2015 44(5), pp. 1029-1048
Tutorial 2: Profit from lock-in (Week 2 - Monday)
1. Smink, M., Hekkert, M.P., & Negro, S.O. (2014), Keeping sustainable innovation on a leash? Exploring
incumbents’ institutional strategies, Business Strategy and the Environment 2015 24(2), pp. 86-101
2. Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. (2010). Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 5: What is Bad Science
Who Decides? The Fight over Secondhand Smoke and the Conclusion Chapter.
Tutorial 3: Institutional Entrepreneurship I (Week 2 - Wednesday)
1. Aldrich, H.E., Fiol, C.M., 1994. Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation. The Academy of
Management Review, 19(4), 645–670.
2. Hargrave, T.J., van de Ven, A.H., 2006. A Collective Action Model of Institutional Innovation. The Academy
of Management Review, 31(4), 864–888.
Tutorial 4: Institutional Entrepreneurship II (Week 3 - Monday)
1. Battilana Julie, Bernard Leca & Eva Boxenbaum (2009) 2 How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a
Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship, The Academy of Management Annals, 3:1, pp. 65-107
2. Maguire, S., C. Hardy, and T. B. Lawrence (2004). Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields:
HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada. Academy of Management Journal, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 657–679.
3. Pelzer, P, K. Frenken, W.Boon (2019). Institutional entrepreneurship in the platform economy: How Uber
tried (and failed) to change the Dutch taxi law. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, vol.33,
pp. 1-12.
Tutorial 5: Users I: User-producer interactions and users as innovators (Week 3 -
Wednesday)
1. Lettl, C., C. Herstatt, and H. G. Gemünden (2006). Users’ Contributions to Radical Innovation: Evidence
From Four Cases in the Field of Medical Equipment Technology. R&D Management 36 (3): 251-72.
, 2. Claussen, Jörg, Maria A. Halbinger (2020). The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion
success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform. Research Policy xx, xxx,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103943
Tutorial 6: Users II: User Entrepreneurship: Grassroots innovations (Week 4 -
Monday)
1. Seyfang, G., & Smith, A. (2007). Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new
research and policy agenda. Environmental politics, 16(4), 584-603.
2. Hatzl, S., Seebauer, S., Fleiß, E., & Posch, A. (2016). Market-based vs. grassroots citizen participation
initiatives in photovoltaics: A qualitative comparison of niche development. Futures, 78, 57-70.
Tutorial 7: Entrepreneurial ecosystems (Week 4 - Wednesday)
1. Ács, Z.J., Autio, E., Szerb, L., 2014. National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy
implications. Research Policy 43, 476–494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016
2. Stam, E., Spigel, B., 2018. Entrepreneurial ecosystems, in: Blackburn, R., De Clerq, C., Heinonen, J. (Eds.),
The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. SAGE, London, pp. 407–422
Tutorial 8: Technological transitions I (Week 6 – Monday)
1. Geels, F.W., 2002. Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: A multi-level
perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8-9), pp. 1257-1274.
2. Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., & Avelino, F. (2017). Sustainability transitions research: transforming
science and practice for societal change. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42, 599-626.
3. Fuenfschilling, L., & Truffer, B. (2014). The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual
foundations from institutional theory. Research Policy, 43(4), 772-791.
Tutorial 9: Technological Transitions II (Week 6 - Wednesday)
1. Hekkert, M.P., Suurs, R.A.A., Negro, S.O., Kuhlmann, S., Smits, R.E.H.M., 2007. Functions of innovation
systems: A new approach for analysing technological change. Technological Forecasting and Social
Change, 74(4), pp. 413-432.
2. Suurs, R. A., & Hekkert, M. P. (2009). Cumulative causation in the formation of a technological innovation
system: The case of biofuels in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(8), 1003-
1020.
3. Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2017). Global Innovation Systems—A conceptual framework for innovation
dynamics in transnational contexts. Research Policy, 46(7), 1284-1298.
Tutorial 10: Intervention, Management and Policy I (Week 7 - Monday)
, 1. Faulkner, A. & L. Poort (2017). Stretching and challenging the boundaries of law: varieties of knowledge in
biotechnologies regulation. Minerva, vol. 55, pp. 209-228.
2. Hoekman J, Boon W. (2019). Changing standards for drug approval: A longitudinal analysis of conditional
marketing authorisation in the European Union. Social Science and Medicine 222: pp 76-83.
Tutorial 11: Intervention, Management and Policy II (Week 7, Wednesday)
1. Smith, A., Stirling, A., Berkhout, F. 2005 The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
Research Policy 34(10), pp. 1491-1510
2. Kivimaa, P., & Kern, F. (2016). Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for
sustainability transitions. Research Policy, 45(1), 205-217.
Tutorial 12: Intervention, Management and Policy III (Week 8, Monday)
1. Schot, J., & Steinmueller, W. E. (2018). Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation
and transformative change. Research Policy, 47(9), 1554-1567.
2. Mazzucato, M. (2016). From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy.
Industry and Innovation, 23(2), 140-156.
Lecture: Mission-oriented innovation systems in the Circular Economy –
Transition to Circular Textiles (Week 9, Wednesday)
1. Hekkert, M. P., Janssen, M. J., Wesseling, J. H., & Negro, S. O. (2020). Mission-oriented innovation
systems. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 76-79.
Theory
By Cem Kalender & Maurits van Schaik
,Content overview
Tutorial 1: The lock-in of non-sustainable technologies (Week 1 - Wednesday)
1. G.C. Unruh, 2000. Understanding carbon lock in, Energy Policy 28 (12) p. 817-830.C.R.
2. Penna, Frank W. Geels, 2015, Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry
(1979–2012): An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue Life Cycle (DILC) model, Research Policy,
2015 44(5), pp. 1029-1048
Tutorial 2: Profit from lock-in (Week 2 - Monday)
1. Smink, M., Hekkert, M.P., & Negro, S.O. (2014), Keeping sustainable innovation on a leash? Exploring
incumbents’ institutional strategies, Business Strategy and the Environment 2015 24(2), pp. 86-101
2. Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. (2010). Merchants of Doubt, Bloomsbury Press. Chapter 5: What is Bad Science
Who Decides? The Fight over Secondhand Smoke and the Conclusion Chapter.
Tutorial 3: Institutional Entrepreneurship I (Week 2 - Wednesday)
1. Aldrich, H.E., Fiol, C.M., 1994. Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation. The Academy of
Management Review, 19(4), 645–670.
2. Hargrave, T.J., van de Ven, A.H., 2006. A Collective Action Model of Institutional Innovation. The Academy
of Management Review, 31(4), 864–888.
Tutorial 4: Institutional Entrepreneurship II (Week 3 - Monday)
1. Battilana Julie, Bernard Leca & Eva Boxenbaum (2009) 2 How Actors Change Institutions: Towards a
Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship, The Academy of Management Annals, 3:1, pp. 65-107
2. Maguire, S., C. Hardy, and T. B. Lawrence (2004). Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields:
HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy in Canada. Academy of Management Journal, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 657–679.
3. Pelzer, P, K. Frenken, W.Boon (2019). Institutional entrepreneurship in the platform economy: How Uber
tried (and failed) to change the Dutch taxi law. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, vol.33,
pp. 1-12.
Tutorial 5: Users I: User-producer interactions and users as innovators (Week 3 -
Wednesday)
1. Lettl, C., C. Herstatt, and H. G. Gemünden (2006). Users’ Contributions to Radical Innovation: Evidence
From Four Cases in the Field of Medical Equipment Technology. R&D Management 36 (3): 251-72.
, 2. Claussen, Jörg, Maria A. Halbinger (2020). The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion
success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform. Research Policy xx, xxx,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103943
Tutorial 6: Users II: User Entrepreneurship: Grassroots innovations (Week 4 -
Monday)
1. Seyfang, G., & Smith, A. (2007). Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new
research and policy agenda. Environmental politics, 16(4), 584-603.
2. Hatzl, S., Seebauer, S., Fleiß, E., & Posch, A. (2016). Market-based vs. grassroots citizen participation
initiatives in photovoltaics: A qualitative comparison of niche development. Futures, 78, 57-70.
Tutorial 7: Entrepreneurial ecosystems (Week 4 - Wednesday)
1. Ács, Z.J., Autio, E., Szerb, L., 2014. National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy
implications. Research Policy 43, 476–494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.08.016
2. Stam, E., Spigel, B., 2018. Entrepreneurial ecosystems, in: Blackburn, R., De Clerq, C., Heinonen, J. (Eds.),
The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. SAGE, London, pp. 407–422
Tutorial 8: Technological transitions I (Week 6 – Monday)
1. Geels, F.W., 2002. Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: A multi-level
perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8-9), pp. 1257-1274.
2. Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., & Avelino, F. (2017). Sustainability transitions research: transforming
science and practice for societal change. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42, 599-626.
3. Fuenfschilling, L., & Truffer, B. (2014). The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual
foundations from institutional theory. Research Policy, 43(4), 772-791.
Tutorial 9: Technological Transitions II (Week 6 - Wednesday)
1. Hekkert, M.P., Suurs, R.A.A., Negro, S.O., Kuhlmann, S., Smits, R.E.H.M., 2007. Functions of innovation
systems: A new approach for analysing technological change. Technological Forecasting and Social
Change, 74(4), pp. 413-432.
2. Suurs, R. A., & Hekkert, M. P. (2009). Cumulative causation in the formation of a technological innovation
system: The case of biofuels in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(8), 1003-
1020.
3. Binz, C., & Truffer, B. (2017). Global Innovation Systems—A conceptual framework for innovation
dynamics in transnational contexts. Research Policy, 46(7), 1284-1298.
Tutorial 10: Intervention, Management and Policy I (Week 7 - Monday)
, 1. Faulkner, A. & L. Poort (2017). Stretching and challenging the boundaries of law: varieties of knowledge in
biotechnologies regulation. Minerva, vol. 55, pp. 209-228.
2. Hoekman J, Boon W. (2019). Changing standards for drug approval: A longitudinal analysis of conditional
marketing authorisation in the European Union. Social Science and Medicine 222: pp 76-83.
Tutorial 11: Intervention, Management and Policy II (Week 7, Wednesday)
1. Smith, A., Stirling, A., Berkhout, F. 2005 The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
Research Policy 34(10), pp. 1491-1510
2. Kivimaa, P., & Kern, F. (2016). Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for
sustainability transitions. Research Policy, 45(1), 205-217.
Tutorial 12: Intervention, Management and Policy III (Week 8, Monday)
1. Schot, J., & Steinmueller, W. E. (2018). Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation
and transformative change. Research Policy, 47(9), 1554-1567.
2. Mazzucato, M. (2016). From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy.
Industry and Innovation, 23(2), 140-156.
Lecture: Mission-oriented innovation systems in the Circular Economy –
Transition to Circular Textiles (Week 9, Wednesday)
1. Hekkert, M. P., Janssen, M. J., Wesseling, J. H., & Negro, S. O. (2020). Mission-oriented innovation
systems. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 76-79.
