Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319877 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Fraunhofer ISI Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 90
Publisher: 
Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI, Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
This article seeks to fill a critical gap in the context of mission oriented and transformative policies by conceptualising generic governance conditions for large public and private organisations to engage constructively with the transformation of wider socio-technological systems as an ongoing learning process. So far, innovation and other policies to achieve transformative missions tend to rely on established instruments, mostly supply side, fostering research and innovation activities to move in desired directions. More sophisticated approaches stimulate absorption and diffusion of innovation and support market creation and uptake. However, for existing socio-technological systems to shift towards sustainability, constitutive actors within such systems, like large public and private organisations, need to actively foster the transformation, as a process of internal and external organisational experimentation and innovation. They are critical actors in their respective system context in two ways: in the past they have co-produced the problematic effects of existing systems; in the future they can severely influence the speed and direction of transition of systems and act as change agents towards more sustainable systems - provided they manage to transform themselves, too. Those actors are very diverse organisations, ranging from large companies, governmental funding bodies, higher education institutions, and related intermediary organisations. They are situated between the individuals and their behaviour on the one hand and the broader systems level on the other, i.e. at the meso level of systems change, where they fulfil critical systemic functions. ...
Subjects: 
Corporate actors
System transformation
Organizational change
Transition studies
Change agents
Meta-governance
Responsible research and innovation ","Corporate actors
System transformation
Organizational change
Transition studies
Change agents
Meta-governance
Responsible research and innovation
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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