Steering innovations towards a green economy: Understanding government intervention

作者：Droste N^*; Hansjuergens B; Kuikman P; Otter N; Antikainen R; Leskinen P; Pitkanen K; Saikku L; Loiseau E; Thomsen M

来源：Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016, 135: 426-434.

DOI：10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.123

• Governance
• Green economy
• Innovation
• Natural capital
• Social equity
• Transition management

In this paper we analyse institutional conditions facilitating the transition towards a green economy by encouraging investment in the enhancement of natural capital and social equity, focussing especially on government interventions. Presenting a conceptual institutional model how innovation generally occurs, we depict system levels that can be influenced by government interventions to facilitate societal innovations towards a green economy. We hypothesize that the transition to a green economy is about extending the possibility frontier outwards towards a greener economy while at the same time limiting the "action space" at the brown economy end; a normative evaluation framework is presented to assess transitions correspondingly. We elaborate on the emerging lessons for governance by examining evidence from five selected European case studies, and provide a non-exhaustive list of impacts that government intervention may have on the action spaces available at different system levels.

• 出版日期2016-11-1