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Identifying Typical (Dys-) Functional Interaction Patterns in the Dutch Biomass Innovation System

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Innovation is increasingly being considered crucial to deal effectively with the negative side effects associated with economic growth. Influencing the direction of innovation towards more sustainable paths is high on many political agendas. Issues like global warming, the security of energy supply, local air pollution, and the negative social effects of economic growth have strongly contributed to these insights.

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    We use technological change and socio-technical change interchangeably. Technological change always co-evolves with changes in the social system.

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    Edquist (2001) is strongly in favour of making this connection since it might make the innovation system framework clearer and more consistent, to serve as a basis for generating hypotheses about specific variables within innovation systems.

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The authors would like to thank the “Knowledge Network for System Innovations and Transitions (KSI)” and the “Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)” for their financial support. Special thanks go to the editors and especially to Katrin Ostertag for her valuable comments and suggestions.

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  1. Department of Innovation Studies, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Simona O. Negro & Marko P. Hekkert

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  1. Sciences, Chair of Sociology of Organisation, German University of Administrative, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 2, Speyer, 67346, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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    Katrin Ostertag

  3. and Innovation Research, Sustainability and Infrastructure, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems, Breslauer Str. 48, Karlsruhe, 76139, Germany

    Rainer Walz

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Negro, S.O., Hekkert, M.P. (2012). Identifying Typical (Dys-) Functional Interaction Patterns in the Dutch Biomass Innovation System. In: Jansen, D., Ostertag, K., Walz, R. (eds) Sustainability Innovations in the Electricity Sector. Sustainability and Innovation. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2730-9_10

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