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Der Klimawandel zählt zu den gröt︣en Herausforderungen, die wir derzeit als Gesellschaft zu bewältigen haben. Aber die bisherigen Massnahmen der Politik reichen nicht aus. Die Emissionen steigen von Jahr zu Jahr und waren noch nie so hoch wie heute. Deshalb braucht es ein zuverlässiges und gerechtes Konzept, um der Erderwärmung und den Grenzen unseres Planeten angemessen IBM in derselben Gröe︣nordnung wie dem Problem selbst IBM zu begegnen. Die NGO SaveClimate.Earth zeigt: Die Einführung einer neuen Klimawährung ECO (Earth Carbon Obligation) würde alle Produkte und Dienstleistungen mit einem separaten Emissionspreisschild versehen, sodass unser Konsum einen realistischen und transparenten Klimapreis erhält. Gemeinsam mit handelbaren persönlichen Emissionsbudgets als ökologischem Grundeinkommen für alle bewirkt der ECO den notwendigen Transformationsdruck auf die Industrie und deren Herstellungsprozesse. Durch das sich verändernde Kaufverhalten der Verbraucher werden vermehrt klimafreundliche Konsumalternativen entstehen. Auf diesem Weg können wir innerhalb der verbleibenden Zeit sowohl der Klimakrise als auch dem Problem der sozialen Ungleichheit umfassend und transnational entgegenwirken. Dieser innovative Ansatz bewirkt, dass jeder von uns zu einem entscheidenden Teil der Lösung wird IBM und das Erreichen des Klimaziels somit in greifbare Nähe rückt. (Verlagswerbung)

In this article we use a comparative case study of collaborative research centres that operate at the interface between public science and private industry to question the assumption that hybrid organizations lead to hybrid practices. Public–private partnerships are intended to contribute to new work practices that solve challenges in public service provision and influence industrial innovativeness by engaging public research capabilities. Analysis of eight Scandinavian centres indicates considerable variance with respect to levels of integration of public and private partners and tensions between them. Five of the cases display no or highly contested hybrid practices and there seem to be many barriers to hybridization. Large differences in work practices from earlier interaction between the partners and radical goals of commercialization of excellent public science are important explanations.

This paper investigates the co-evolution of industry formation, innovation systems and context over time through an analysis of offshore wind in the Netherlands and Norway. We compare these two countries because of their historically weak domestic offshore wind markets, long legacies in the oil and gas (O&G) and maritime industries and active participation in the growing offshore wind market. Our analysis is informed by the technological innovation systems framework and context conditions and we derive our results from nearly 60 interviews with key stakeholders in both countries. Our results point to three main empirical findings: 1) The Netherlands focused much more on explicit innovation system building strategies than Norway; 2) O&G is a critical sectoral and political context condition with a profound impact on offshore wind in both countries: in Norway, O&G price shocks led to fluctuating offshore wind participation; in the Netherlands, offshore O&G has been on a decline since the early 2000s, leading to a constant pressure to diversify. 3) The Netherlands had closer industrial proximity alignment than Norway, leading to stronger innovation system emergence and industrial participation. We highlight three theoretical contributions: 1) Certain context conditions – in our case O&G sectoral and political contexts – play a stronger role than others in influencing TIS emergence; 2) Context conditions strongly overlap. The political and sectoral O&G context is intimately linked; 3) Contexts are not static. As context conditions evolve overtime, so do their effects on the innovation system.

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In this paper we mobilize sustainability transitions literature to explore directionality for circular economy (CE) transitions, by drawing on and adapting a framework for analysing roadmaps to empirically investigate CE strategies. Specifically, this paper explores circular economy CE strategy documents in the Nordics, the commonalities and differences between them and to what extent they provide directionality for CE transitions. Through a systematic document analysis of 39 CE strategy documents, we find that the strategy documents are vague and lack clear political visions. As such, we argue that the documents fail to provide clear directionality for CE transitions and question their usefulness. Additionally, the paper demonstrates how CE strategy documents can contribute to promoting the development of industries that couple to national ambitions for the development of new, green industries.

This book focuses specifically on policy mixes and wind power diffusion in four Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Although these Nordic welfare states have much in common, they have adopted different wind power policies and experienced dissimilar diffusion trajectories. Understanding these patterns across the Nordic countries is the central puzzle that this book investigates. Empirically, this book provides a first-of-its-kind comparative study of wind power policies in the Nordic countries. Analytically, the authors contribute to the transition policy mix literature, which remains largely insensitive to political feasibility. This book will be of interest to researchers and students as well as private and public decision makers looking for tools to enable the energy transition. Jon Birger Skjærseth is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. His research interests include international environmental cooperation and European climate/energy policies.