TY - JOUR

T1 - Using transition management concepts for the evaluation of intersecting policy domains ('grand challenges')

T2 - The case of Swedish, Norwegian and UK biofuel policy

AU - Klitkou, Antje

AU - Olsen, Dorothy Sutherland

AU - Upham, Paul John

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The notion of 'grand challenges' (GC) is increasingly used in international research and innovation discourse, but risks being used rhetorically to justify business as usual policy approaches. We draw on a study that maps the characteristics of policy problems and proposals referred to in association with 'GC', showing how transition management fits well as a response to these characteristics. We then use the transition management perspective to evaluate prevailing research and innovation policy for an exemplar policy sector (biofuels), in countries with differing policy histories for that sector (the UK, Norway and Sweden). We argue that transition management functions well as a means of highlighting not only policy shortcomings in a sector, but also policy directions appropriate to the scale of GC.

AB - The notion of 'grand challenges' (GC) is increasingly used in international research and innovation discourse, but risks being used rhetorically to justify business as usual policy approaches. We draw on a study that maps the characteristics of policy problems and proposals referred to in association with 'GC', showing how transition management fits well as a response to these characteristics. We then use the transition management perspective to evaluate prevailing research and innovation policy for an exemplar policy sector (biofuels), in countries with differing policy histories for that sector (the UK, Norway and Sweden). We argue that transition management functions well as a means of highlighting not only policy shortcomings in a sector, but also policy directions appropriate to the scale of GC.

KW - Biofuels

KW - Critical

KW - Governance

KW - Grand challenges

KW - Innovation policy

KW - Normative

KW - RD&D

KW - Transition management

KW - Transport

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983439056&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1504/IJFIP.2016.078326

DO - 10.1504/IJFIP.2016.078326

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84983439056

VL - 11

SP - 73

EP - 95

JO - International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy

JF - International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy

SN - 1740-2816

IS - 1

ER -