Allan Dahl Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4082268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Dahl Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan Dahl |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2703-293X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
‘Lumpy’ technological innovation systems and net-zero transitions: The impact of technology characteristics on the carbon capture innovation system in Norway
While past research indicates that technology characteristics matter for deployment and policymaking, especially for lumpy technologies, these insights have not yet been integrated with more comprehensive understandings of socio-technical diffusion. This is problematic because some net-zero decarbonization challenges require lumpy technologies (e.g., cement). To address this knowledge gap, we articulate a ‘lumpy’ technological innovation systems …
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology
Framework for market formation in a multi-purpose technological innovation systems. • Highlights integration of new user sectors via formation of structural couplings. • Shows how market formation increases institutional complexity in a multi-sector TIS. • Shows the importance of shared narratives and framings for structural coupling. Multi-purpose technologies that interconnect and shape multiple sector transitions are central to achieving net-z…
Cross-system cascades as drivers of the electrification pathway in net-zero transitions
The need for speed: Mapping a conceptual typology for accelerating transitions toward sustainability
Acceleration has multiple implicit meanings in the emerging literatures on sustainability transitions, systems transformation, and science and technology studies, among other disciplines. But how has acceleration been conceptualised in social sciences literatures analysing transitions towards sustainability? Are there potential synergies across these literatures that can advance our understanding of acceleration? In this paper we take stock of ex…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Conceptualizing the relationship between industrial transformation and accelerating sustainability transitions: A multi-sectoral perspective
The acceleration of sustainability transitions increasingly hinges on industrial transformation, i.e., structural changes in the sectors that produce, use, and support low-carbon technologies. Such changes shape the pace and direction of transitions by affecting the availability of critical inputs—from manufacturing capacity to materials for batteries, transformers, or solar PV—and by creating new opportunities for industrial value creation. Yet …
The role of material resources for rapid technology diffusion in net-zero transitions: Insights from EV lithium-ion battery Technological Innovation System in China
A key challenge to achieving a net-zero transition by mid-century is rapid diffusion of several low-carbon technologies which requires massive upscaling of production capacity including vast use of material resources. However, both diffusion theory and main transition studies frameworks pay insufficient attention to the role of material resources. To better understand the relationships between diffusion, production, and material use in technology…
Multi-sector technology diffusion in urgent net-zero transitions: Niche splintering in carbon capture technology
Transitioning to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century requires rapid diffusion of low-carbon technologies across numerous sectors. Multi-purpose technologies are expected to solve sustainability problems in several sectors. Given the mid-century deadline, diffusion of such technologies must happen in multiple sectors simultaneously instead of sequentially. Since different sectors have their own set of preferences, technical needs, and…
Low-carbon electrification as a multi-system transition: A socio-technical analysis of Norwegian maritime transport, construction, and chemical sectors
Electrification of end-use sectors is widely seen as a central decarbonisation strategy. However, the process of electrification is rarely discussed beyond electric end-use technologies such as electric vehicles or heat pumps. While electrification of end-use sectors is about new types of consumption, it also requires new technological interfaces with the electricity system. The paper provides a first conceptualisation of electrification as a mul…
Multi-system dynamics and the speed of net-zero transitions: Identifying causal processes related to technologies, actors, and institutions
Reaching net-zero GHG emission targets will require transitions in all socio-technical systems, including electricity, mobility, heating, and agri-food. While most research focuses on transitions in single systems, it is essential to also investigate multi-system interactions since innovations like electric vehicles, heat pumps, or circular economy initiatives will require interactions between multiple systems. Although extant research acknowledg…
Architectural change in accelerating transitions: Actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition
Despite growing research attention to accelerating transitions, the process of acceleration is not yet fully understood. It, for example, remains unclear whether or not acceleration requires deep changes in the architecture of sociotechnical systems and associated disruption to incumbents. We begin to unravel this issue by introducing a new framework for studying architectural change which foregrounds the role of actors. Based on a distinction be…
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: Exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport
The innovation literature increasingly addresses grand challenges and transformative change. However, the issue of to what extent transformative change can build upon the resources, actors and institutions of existing innovation systems has not received sufficient attention. Against this background this paper aims to advance our understanding of the geographies and continuities of transformative change, by exploring the role of regional innovatio…
Unleashing the industrial transformative capacity of innovations
On digitalization and sustainability transitions
Multi-technology interaction in socio-technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories
The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway
The urgency of a sustainability transition in the energy sector has led numerous authors to argue that it can and should be accelerated through active phase-out, disruption and destabilization of the undesirable established technologies. This paper starts out accepting the phase-out premise, but argues that a more nuanced view of ‘established’ technologies and incumbents is needed. Technologies often involve many different sectors, and there may …
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway
Once transitions progress beyond the start-up phase, niche technologies diffuse more widely to generate important knock-on effects in a focal sector. This entails a need for moving beyond niches to embrace a 'whole system perspective'. In the power sector, this perspective puts electricity networks in a more central position. This paper analyses how the governance of power networks is challenged by the energy transition. We integrate insights fro…
Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges
As the world moves towards the Anthropocene, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. We suggest that studying innovation in natural resource based industries yields important insights. Despite the importance of innovation in and transformation of natural resource based industries for development and sustainability, the issue has received limit…
The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix
Innovation in natural resource-based industries: A pathway to development? Introduction to special issue
Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against this background, this introductory article aims to make four contributions. First, to assess the extent to which Innovation …
Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously
The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of technological innovation and economic change. We argue that improving the capacity of an IS framework for dealing with wicked problems and the normative complexity of sustainability requires a fundamental p…
A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: The pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil
This paper applies a technological innovation system (TIS) approach to study how and under which circumstances the sugarcane and biofuel innovation system (SUBIS) emerged and grew in Brazil in the period 1900-1973. The paper advances our understanding of innovation system (IS) building in the South in three ways. First, it illustrates how sectoral IS formation can be understood by using the TIS framework. Second, it highlights key mechanisms in t…
Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems
Low-carbon development (LCD) is a process of structural change of unprecedented magnitude that includes radical changes in technology, institutions, values and policies. It has been proposed that inclusive institutions are crucial for enabling structural change by facilitating different processes of creative destruction. There are reasons to believe that inclusion is also crucial for achieving LCD. We explore why and how social inclusion may supp…
Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight
The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway
The urgency of a sustainability transition in the energy sector has led numerous authors to argue that it can and should be accelerated through active phase-out, disruption and destabilization of the undesirable established technologies. This paper starts out accepting the phase-out premise, but argues that a more nuanced view of ‘established’ technologies and incumbents is needed. Technologies often involve many different sectors, and there may …
Multi-system dynamics and the speed of net-zero transitions: Identifying causal processes related to technologies, actors, and institutions
Reaching net-zero GHG emission targets will require transitions in all socio-technical systems, including electricity, mobility, heating, and agri-food. While most research focuses on transitions in single systems, it is essential to also investigate multi-system interactions since innovations like electric vehicles, heat pumps, or circular economy initiatives will require interactions between multiple systems. Although extant research acknowledg…
On digitalization and sustainability transitions
Innovation in natural resource-based industries: A pathway to development? Introduction to special issue
Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against this background, this introductory article aims to make four contributions. First, to assess the extent to which Innovation …
A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: The pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil
This paper applies a technological innovation system (TIS) approach to study how and under which circumstances the sugarcane and biofuel innovation system (SUBIS) emerged and grew in Brazil in the period 1900-1973. The paper advances our understanding of innovation system (IS) building in the South in three ways. First, it illustrates how sectoral IS formation can be understood by using the TIS framework. Second, it highlights key mechanisms in t…
The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Architectural change in accelerating transitions: Actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition
Despite growing research attention to accelerating transitions, the process of acceleration is not yet fully understood. It, for example, remains unclear whether or not acceleration requires deep changes in the architecture of sociotechnical systems and associated disruption to incumbents. We begin to unravel this issue by introducing a new framework for studying architectural change which foregrounds the role of actors. Based on a distinction be…
No transition without transmission: HVDC electricity infrastructure as an enabler for renewable energy
Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges
As the world moves towards the Anthropocene, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. We suggest that studying innovation in natural resource based industries yields important insights. Despite the importance of innovation in and transformation of natural resource based industries for development and sustainability, the issue has received limit…
Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems
Low-carbon development (LCD) is a process of structural change of unprecedented magnitude that includes radical changes in technology, institutions, values and policies. It has been proposed that inclusive institutions are crucial for enabling structural change by facilitating different processes of creative destruction. There are reasons to believe that inclusion is also crucial for achieving LCD. We explore why and how social inclusion may supp…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway
Once transitions progress beyond the start-up phase, niche technologies diffuse more widely to generate important knock-on effects in a focal sector. This entails a need for moving beyond niches to embrace a 'whole system perspective'. In the power sector, this perspective puts electricity networks in a more central position. This paper analyses how the governance of power networks is challenged by the energy transition. We integrate insights fro…
Unleashing the industrial transformative capacity of innovations
Innovation systems and natural resources – The case of sugarcane in Brazil
Innovation systems and natural resources – The case of sugarcane in Brazil From the perspective that interactive learning is a fundamental process in economic development this dissertation analyses
Innovation systems and natural resources – The case of sugarcane in Brazil
Innovation systems and natural resources – The case of sugarcane in Brazil From the perspective that interactive learning is a fundamental process in economic development this dissertation analyses
Sectoral innovation system foresight in practice: Nordic facilities management foresight
No transition without transmission: HVDC electricity infrastructure as an enabler for renewable energy
A functions approach to innovation system building in the South: The pre-Proálcool evolution of the sugarcane and biofuel sector in Brazil
This paper applies a technological innovation system (TIS) approach to study how and under which circumstances the sugarcane and biofuel innovation system (SUBIS) emerged and grew in Brazil in the period 1900-1973. The paper advances our understanding of innovation system (IS) building in the South in three ways. First, it illustrates how sectoral IS formation can be understood by using the TIS framework. Second, it highlights key mechanisms in t…
Low-carbon development and inclusive innovation systems
Low-carbon development (LCD) is a process of structural change of unprecedented magnitude that includes radical changes in technology, institutions, values and policies. It has been proposed that inclusive institutions are crucial for enabling structural change by facilitating different processes of creative destruction. There are reasons to believe that inclusion is also crucial for achieving LCD. We explore why and how social inclusion may supp…
Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously
The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of technological innovation and economic change. We argue that improving the capacity of an IS framework for dealing with wicked problems and the normative complexity of sustainability requires a fundamental p…
Innovation in natural resource-based industries: A pathway to development? Introduction to special issue
Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against this background, this introductory article aims to make four contributions. First, to assess the extent to which Innovation …
Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix
Multi-technology interaction in socio-technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories
The innovation and industry dynamics of technology phase-out in sustainability transitions: Insights from diversifying petroleum technology suppliers in Norway
The urgency of a sustainability transition in the energy sector has led numerous authors to argue that it can and should be accelerated through active phase-out, disruption and destabilization of the undesirable established technologies. This paper starts out accepting the phase-out premise, but argues that a more nuanced view of ‘established’ technologies and incumbents is needed. Technologies often involve many different sectors, and there may …
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway
Once transitions progress beyond the start-up phase, niche technologies diffuse more widely to generate important knock-on effects in a focal sector. This entails a need for moving beyond niches to embrace a 'whole system perspective'. In the power sector, this perspective puts electricity networks in a more central position. This paper analyses how the governance of power networks is challenged by the energy transition. We integrate insights fro…
Making sense of how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges
As the world moves towards the Anthropocene, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the natural environment shapes innovation, industry dynamics, and sustainability challenges. We suggest that studying innovation in natural resource based industries yields important insights. Despite the importance of innovation in and transformation of natural resource based industries for development and sustainability, the issue has received limit…
The role of inter-sectoral dynamics in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Unleashing the industrial transformative capacity of innovations
On digitalization and sustainability transitions
The role of regional innovation systems in mission-oriented innovation policy: Exploring the problem-solution space in electrification of maritime transport
The innovation literature increasingly addresses grand challenges and transformative change. However, the issue of to what extent transformative change can build upon the resources, actors and institutions of existing innovation systems has not received sufficient attention. Against this background this paper aims to advance our understanding of the geographies and continuities of transformative change, by exploring the role of regional innovatio…
Multi-sector technology diffusion in urgent net-zero transitions: Niche splintering in carbon capture technology
Transitioning to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century requires rapid diffusion of low-carbon technologies across numerous sectors. Multi-purpose technologies are expected to solve sustainability problems in several sectors. Given the mid-century deadline, diffusion of such technologies must happen in multiple sectors simultaneously instead of sequentially. Since different sectors have their own set of preferences, technical needs, and…
Low-carbon electrification as a multi-system transition: A socio-technical analysis of Norwegian maritime transport, construction, and chemical sectors
Electrification of end-use sectors is widely seen as a central decarbonisation strategy. However, the process of electrification is rarely discussed beyond electric end-use technologies such as electric vehicles or heat pumps. While electrification of end-use sectors is about new types of consumption, it also requires new technological interfaces with the electricity system. The paper provides a first conceptualisation of electrification as a mul…
Multi-system dynamics and the speed of net-zero transitions: Identifying causal processes related to technologies, actors, and institutions
Reaching net-zero GHG emission targets will require transitions in all socio-technical systems, including electricity, mobility, heating, and agri-food. While most research focuses on transitions in single systems, it is essential to also investigate multi-system interactions since innovations like electric vehicles, heat pumps, or circular economy initiatives will require interactions between multiple systems. Although extant research acknowledg…
Architectural change in accelerating transitions: Actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition
Despite growing research attention to accelerating transitions, the process of acceleration is not yet fully understood. It, for example, remains unclear whether or not acceleration requires deep changes in the architecture of sociotechnical systems and associated disruption to incumbents. We begin to unravel this issue by introducing a new framework for studying architectural change which foregrounds the role of actors. Based on a distinction be…
The role of material resources for rapid technology diffusion in net-zero transitions: Insights from EV lithium-ion battery Technological Innovation System in China
A key challenge to achieving a net-zero transition by mid-century is rapid diffusion of several low-carbon technologies which requires massive upscaling of production capacity including vast use of material resources. However, both diffusion theory and main transition studies frameworks pay insufficient attention to the role of material resources. To better understand the relationships between diffusion, production, and material use in technology…
The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a m…
Conceptualizing the relationship between industrial transformation and accelerating sustainability transitions: A multi-sectoral perspective
The acceleration of sustainability transitions increasingly hinges on industrial transformation, i.e., structural changes in the sectors that produce, use, and support low-carbon technologies. Such changes shape the pace and direction of transitions by affecting the availability of critical inputs—from manufacturing capacity to materials for batteries, transformers, or solar PV—and by creating new opportunities for industrial value creation. Yet …
‘Lumpy’ technological innovation systems and net-zero transitions: The impact of technology characteristics on the carbon capture innovation system in Norway
While past research indicates that technology characteristics matter for deployment and policymaking, especially for lumpy technologies, these insights have not yet been integrated with more comprehensive understandings of socio-technical diffusion. This is problematic because some net-zero decarbonization challenges require lumpy technologies (e.g., cement). To address this knowledge gap, we articulate a ‘lumpy’ technological innovation systems …
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology
Framework for market formation in a multi-purpose technological innovation systems. • Highlights integration of new user sectors via formation of structural couplings. • Shows how market formation increases institutional complexity in a multi-sector TIS. • Shows the importance of shared narratives and framings for structural coupling. Multi-purpose technologies that interconnect and shape multiple sector transitions are central to achieving net-z…
Business (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 works) · Sustainability (11 works) · Industrial organization (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economic system (6 works)