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Socio-technical transition pathways and social networks: a toolkit for empirical innovation studies

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  • Piergiuseppe Morone

    (Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics- The University of Foggia)

  • Antonio Lopolito

    (Faculty of Rural Studies - The University of Foggia)

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In this note we investigate socio-technical transition pathways concentrating our attention on innovation niches formations. Specifically, we present a methodological conceptualization of innovation-niches and propose a preliminary protocol, based on a Social Network Analysis (SNA), aiming to capture and measure the internal status of niches. The suggested protocol provides a toolkit with insights on three SN concepts which can be used to study and measure the evolution process of technological niches. This allowed us to suggest a set of possible policy actions, which derives directly from the conceptualisation of innovation-niches propose in this paper. Although preliminary, we believe this study represents an important step in a much-needed direction, which is science-policy interface in socio-technical transition studies.

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  • Piergiuseppe Morone & Antonio Lopolito, 2010. "Socio-technical transition pathways and social networks: a toolkit for empirical innovation studies," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(4), pages 2720-2731.
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    2. Antonio Lopolito & Piergiuseppe Morone & Richard Taylor, 2011. "An agent-based model approach to innovation niche creation in socio-technical transition pathways," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(2), pages 1780-1792.
    3. Caetano C R & Oscar Yandy & Cristian Matti, 2023. "Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 50(4), pages 719-741.

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    Keywords

    socio-technical transition; innovation; social network analysis; science-policy interface;
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    JEL classification:

    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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