Tutorial #5 – Innovation systems & system innovation – Flor Avelino

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In the field of sustainability transitions, the MLP framework has received the most attention. There are also other frameworks, like Technological Innovation Systems, as already discussed in the course Innovation Systems and Processes (GEO4-2257). This tutorial follows up on those concepts with a more in-depth theory about how to contextualize innovation systems.

Be able to answer the following questions:
- What is the distinction between innovation, innovation systems, and system innovation?
- What are the major differences and complementarities between the Technological Innovation System (TIS), the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP), and the Mission-Oriented Innovation System (MIS)? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of all?

Bergek et al. address the interaction between TIS and wider context structures.
TIS framework can be further strengthed by a better conceptualization of the TIS context structure and TIS context interactions.

The authors identify and discuss four especially important types of context structures;
  1. technological,
  2. sectorial,
  3. geographical
  4. political.

Four benefits of such a framework:
  1. Improving the TIS framework as a policy tool
  2. Increase awareness among analysts and policy makers.
  3. Acknowledging context structures allows to identify favourable opportunities for new technologies
  4. A coherent framework incorporating context structures would facilitate further analytical work with a focus on how a given TIS impacts different contexts.

Understanding TIS context structures and interactions
TIS is defined a

“a set of elements, including technologies, actors, networks and institutions, which actively contribute to the development of a particular technology field”
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Mission-oriented Innovation Systems (MIS).

MIS consists of networks of agents and sets of institutions that contribute to the development and diffusion of innovative solutions with the aim to define, pursue and complete a societal mission.

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