The Niche from the Future is a fun and accessible card game that helps players to imagine and invest in desirable futures using conceps from Deep Transitions. In the game, players compete to come up with the most thought-provoking and imaginative niches that could function in our three future world scenarios. The game aims to … from The Niche from the Future Card Game
What can the worlds of finance and academia learn from each other? Will technological innovations like electric vehicles be enough to avert climate catastrophe, or will we need to reinvent social norms like the very concept of personal vehicle ownership entirely? Should those concentrating on electrification, like TESLA, diversify into ‘mobility-as-a-service’ rather than just the … from Investing in the Era of Deep Transitions: Professor Johan Schot in Conversation with James Anderson
The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP). Here, we address the question of how to orient the efforts of science, technology, and innovation policy … from Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy
Interactions between studies on transformative innovation policy and sustainability transitions have lately generated a rich stream of work on steering system innovation. Yet the tools to understand, formulate and evaluate transformative innovation policy have so far mostly focused on single systems. This is problematic as addressing the current sustainability challenges requires transitions in a broad range of interconnected systems, and … from Integrated framework of intervention points and transformative outcomes for single- and multi-system transitions
One of the biggest challenge when working in sustainability transitions is knowing how, when, and where to intervene in systems to accelerate change. The paper ‘Exploring thresholds for a double acceleration movement in sustainability transitions’ by Kejia Yang and Johan Schot offers a structured, practical framework for understanding, tracking, and shaping the acceleration of sustainability … from Navigating the acceleration of transitions: a strategic framework for investors and policymakers
This paper addresses a major gap in sustainability transitions research: the role of shocks in shaping transition dynamics. The papers focuses on shocks with traumatic consequences, in particular World War I and II. The paper revisits discussions on the sociotechnical landscape in the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and Deep Transition framework, offering refined versions of the … from The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare
The future promises to be unpredictable, complex and volatile. Yet the current NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System) climate scenarios used to stress test investment portfolios are limited: based on unrealistic assumptions, often understating the economic damage of climate change and failing to provide a holistic view of impacts (such as risks, conflicts, migrations, … from Climate scenarios expansion project
In Deep Transitions (DT) theory, interventions are defined as “particular areas in the socio-technical system or its environment where the application of appropriate [interventions] would likely facilitate transformative change in the system’s directionality” (Kanger et al., 2020: 4). Interventions are actions taken by actors to influence different parts of a system. We initially developed a … from Taking action that drives systems change: an introduction to Interventions
Niches are new ways of driving change. They are protective spaces for innovations within society and organisations. They are alternative configurations of technology, institutions, practices, and discourses that embrace new ways of thinking and doing. Niches are driven by innovations (social and technological), but should not be conflated with them. We use innovations/initiatives/alternative practices as … from How we transform our world: an introduction to niches
