Seminar: Andrew Jamison on Andrew Jamison, Professor of technology, environment and society at Aalborg University, Sweden on the quest for green knowledge
Andrew Jamison, Professor of technology, environment and society at Aalborg University, Sweden, gives a STEPS Centre Seminar on the quest for green knowledge.
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Seminar: Andrew Jamison on Andrew Jamison, Professor of technology, environment and society at Aalborg University, Sweden on the quest for green knowledge
3. Environmental sustainability – a public good
Existing pattern of innovation is unsustainable
A core issue
Transformative innovation similar to public health
and the welfare state
Sustainability oriented innovation policy
Societal mission, purposive and pervasive, role of
government
The greatest challenge of our time
4. ‘Modern’ socio-technical regimes and
unsustainability
Automobility/aeromobility – climate change
Carbon based electricity – climate change
Resource intensive food - biodiversity
Printed paper communication -deforestation
The high consumption household – water
stress carbon emissions
5. Shared issue between developed &
developing countries
Established regimes in developed countries
the problem of path dependency
Emergent regimes in developing countries
the problem of expectations
Different forms of lock-in
6. Visions of sustainable future regimes
Low carbon economy
Ecological food
Paperless society
The sustainable household
The challenges for innovation & policy
7. A sustainability oriented innovation policy
Need for system innovation
Involves technology & social change
Crosses the production & consumption divide
The reintroduction of societal mission
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11. Environmentalism – from margins to
mainstream
Formal policy commitments at global level
No growth vs decoupling
Climate change – transition to low carbon
economy
Stern’s case for public intervention
The rise and rise of environmental
sustainability
12. New consensus around innovation for
sustainability
Revolution – from white heat to green cool
Misleading metaphors:
Big technology – Manhattan Project
Incrementalism – new products
Generic technologies – Industrial Rev
New framework needed
Innovation will save the world
13. Proliferation jungle
Dogmas – market based instruments,
producer oriented
Keeping sight of the broad sustainability
agenda
Transformative innovation
Through a glass darkly – the
contemporary policy window
14. Long term visions –short term action
Sociotechnical approach – bridging new
technology and behavioural change
Global and local – reconfiguring national
innovation policy
Invention and imitation – being realistic about
novelty
Incumbent and emergent – recognising
contradictions within the business world
5 principles for reconfiguring innovation
policy for sustainability
15. A new portfolio of innovation policy
measures
Demanding futures
Sustainable innovation commons
Radical reinnovation
Green ‘new deal’
Sustainable transition arenas