The Salk Institute was funded $35 million for this work! By The Audacious Project, which has supported other projects that are very aligned with a solarpunk future as well 🙂 Such as: https://audaciousproject.org/ideas/2018/woods-hole-oceanographic-institution
The Audacious Project
The twilight zone is a mysterious part of the ocean that may hold a million new species, and 90 percent of the world's fish biomass. Woods Hole hopes to explore the region — before commercial fishers do.
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Roles of business models in societal transitions.pdf
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The three roles of business models in societal
transitions: New linkages between business model
and transition research
transitions: New linkages between business model
and transition research
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Roles of business models in societal transitions.pdf
The three roles of business models in societal transitions: New linkages between business model and transition research
Highlights
• We systematically explore the link between business model and transition theory.
• We show that business models play three roles within societal transitions.
• We explain how these three roles impact transitions as both drivers and barriers.
• We provide three illustrative cases from the ongoing energy transition in Germany.
• We derive implications for (sustainable) business model and transition research.
Abstract
Following recent calls from sustainable business model and transition research, we establish the link between both fields. We systematically integrate existing knowledge on business models into the well-established multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions and identify three roles of business models and their respective impact on transition dynamics: (1) As part of the socio-technical regime, existing business models hamper transitions by reinforcing the current system's stability, (2) as intermediates between the technological niche and the socio-technical regime, business models drive transitions by facilitating the stabilization process of technological innovation and its breakthroughfrom niche to regime level, and (3) as non-technological niche innovation, novel business models drive transitions by building up a substantial part of a new regime without relying on technological innovation. We illustrate our findings with examples from the German energy sector and discuss our contributions to (sustainable) business model and transition research.
Highlights
• We systematically explore the link between business model and transition theory.
• We show that business models play three roles within societal transitions.
• We explain how these three roles impact transitions as both drivers and barriers.
• We provide three illustrative cases from the ongoing energy transition in Germany.
• We derive implications for (sustainable) business model and transition research.
Abstract
Following recent calls from sustainable business model and transition research, we establish the link between both fields. We systematically integrate existing knowledge on business models into the well-established multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions and identify three roles of business models and their respective impact on transition dynamics: (1) As part of the socio-technical regime, existing business models hamper transitions by reinforcing the current system's stability, (2) as intermediates between the technological niche and the socio-technical regime, business models drive transitions by facilitating the stabilization process of technological innovation and its breakthroughfrom niche to regime level, and (3) as non-technological niche innovation, novel business models drive transitions by building up a substantial part of a new regime without relying on technological innovation. We illustrate our findings with examples from the German energy sector and discuss our contributions to (sustainable) business model and transition research.
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