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Kejia Yang

Biography

KKejia Yang works as a doctoral researcher at SPRU, University of Sussex Business School. Her research focuses on how new entrants interact with incumbents to shape the socio-technical system transformation towards sustainability. She specifically investigates the interactions among technological change, actors’ strategies, and institutional change. Her doctoral study examines how different actors interact to shape wind and solar power development in China both at the national level but also in two of China’s provinces, Inner Mongolia and Jiangsu. Her role in TIPC is to work closely with CASTED on TIPC activities in China.

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Navigating the acceleration of transitions: a strategic framework for investors and policymakers

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