Using transition management concepts for the evaluation of intersecting policy domains ('grand challenges'): The case of Swedish, Norwegian and UK biofuel policy
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In: International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2016, p. 73-95.
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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 -