Innovation intermediaries accelerating environmental sustainability transitions
| dc.contributor.author | Gliedt, Travis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hoicka, Christina E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jackson, Nathan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-27T15:04:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-27T15:04:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Institutions in the United States are undergoing modifications that present direct challenges for the environment and society and may result in institutional uncertainty and instability. This article explores whether innovation intermediaries can be employed as a key component of a strategy to create a window of opportunity for green job creation, infrastructure changes, and technological innovation in response to these types of institutional modifications. Based on a systematic literature review, this article outlines a framework that combines institutional modifications with technological innovation and infrastructure development as part of an economic development strategy. Important findings are that connections between innovation intermediaries, such as incubator and accelerator centers, niche actors, such as green champions, and regime actors, such as policy entrepreneurs, show potential to contribute to a green economic development strategy but require further examination for the specific roles played by policy entrepreneurs to help create the conditions for scaling niche experiments and simultaneously disrupting the regime. The key contribution is in defining the role of sustainability-oriented innovation intermediaries at linking local, state and business actions in order to scale-up and influence green economic development in a politically feasible manner during times of institutional uncertainty and instability. | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research is being conducted as part of a project funded partially by an Insight Development Grant number 430-2015-00713 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Financial support was provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Provost, and the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gliedt, T., Hoicka, C. E., & Jackson, N. (2018). Innovation intermediaries accelerating environmental sustainability transitions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 174, 1247–1261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.054 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.054 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/16561 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Journal of Cleaner Production | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | policy entrepreneurship | |
| dc.subject | champion | |
| dc.subject | green economic development | |
| dc.subject | incubator | |
| dc.subject | instituational uncertainty | |
| dc.title | Innovation intermediaries accelerating environmental sustainability transitions | |
| dc.type | Article |