Andreas Pyka
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Pyka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pyka |
| SIGNATURE | PYKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hohenheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6207-6690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transforming Innovation Systems
Amid escalating global crises and growing demands for sustainability transitions, innovation systems (IS) research has undergone a “normative turn,” shifting the focus of research toward addressing complex societal challenges. This paper compares three approaches that have emerged in response to this shift: Dedicated Innovation Systems (DIS), Mission‐Oriented Innovation Systems (MIS), and Challenge‐Oriented Regional Innovation Systems (CORIS). We…
Short food supply chains and the sustainable transition of agri-food systems
The persistence of global hunger and the slow progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have intensified discussions on the sustainability and effectiveness of current agri-food supply chains (AFSCs). In this context, short food supply chains (SFSCs) have emerged as promising alternatives to foster sustainable transitions in AFSCs by strengthening local food systems, reducing environmental impacts, and improving food acce…
Towards a sustainable bioeconomy in Türkiye
Türkiye’s rich biodiversity, extensive agricultural sector and strategic geographic location provide a solid foundation for developing a sustainable bioeconomy. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the bioeconomy in Türkiye, and thereby, emphasizing its potential for intensifying EU-Türkiye cooperation. We use a descriptive mixed-method approach. This multi-stage process includes a literature revi…
Assessing Lean Startup for sustainable business models
Food security assessment in the light of sustainable development goals
Assessing the relevance of different proximity dimensions for knowledge exchange and (co-)creation in sustainability-oriented innovation networks
Innovations incorporating environmental and social considerations can address many sustainability challenges. Such sustainable innovations emerge in networks often comprising actors from business, academia, civil society, and government. The crucial interactions here are the (co-)creation and transfer of knowledge, mutual learning, and experimentation in different environments. To better understand these knowledge processes and hence the eventual…
A Framework for Ethical Research and Innovation
Crisis-driven innovation and fundamental human needs
As a microcosm for future challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits increasingly transboundary dynamics, causing interconnected problems across multiple societal systems. To examine the role of innovations as a social mechanism to reconcile these arising challenges, we view the unfolding of the pandemic through the lens of a content analysis of 707 innovation projects that address the fundamental human needs of consumers and businesses. This stu…
Social Network Metric-Based Interventions? Experiments with an Agent-Based Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Metropolitan Region
We present and use an agent-based model to study interventions for suppression, mitigation, and vaccination in coping with the COVID-pandemic. Unlike metapopulation models, our agent-based model permits experimenting with micro-level interventions in social interactions at individual sites. We compare common macro-level interventions applicable to everyone (e.g., keep distance, close all schools) to targeted interventions in the social network sp…
Time to Say ‘Good Buy’ to the Passive Consumer? A Conceptual Review of the Consumer in the Bioeconomy
Successful transitions to a sustainable bioeconomy require novel technologies, processes, and practices as well as a general agreement about the overarching normative direction of innovation. Both requirements necessarily involve collective action by those individuals who purchase, use, and co-produce novelties: the consumers. Based on theoretical considerations borrowed from evolutionary innovation economics and consumer social responsibility, w…
Quo Vadis, Bioeconomy? the Necessity of Normative Considerations in the Transition
This collection of papers builds on the idea that the bioeconomy provides a framework for potentially effective solutions addressing the grand global challenges by a turn towards an increased use of biological resources, towards renewability and circularity. Consequently, it cannot be perceived as an end in itself. Thus, innovative endeavors within this bioeconomy framework require a serious examination of their normative premises and implication…
On the performance and strategy of innovation systems
Learning to change
The transition towards a bioeconomy is considered a powerful approach to combating current trends of unsustainability. To date, the concept has been widely perceived as a predominantly technical endeavor. This is, however, not sufficient and will not really tackle the global sustainability challenges. Therefore, the imparting of technological knowledge must be accompanied by instruction in other types of knowledge, particularly transformative kno…
Systemic interventions in regional innovation systems
The paper employs a regional innovation system concept and divides system failures into three categories: institutional infrastructure, organizational landscape and structural connectedness. To analyze the economic effects of systemic interventions, it employs the VISIBLE model, which allows ex-ante policy experiments to be conducted in a virtual simulation environment. First, the findings show that regional learning and knowledge exchange are ac…
Evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes
Focusing on ‘evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes’, this special issue addresses a highly topical subject. The contributions cover a number of distinct but complementary issues of innovation processes at the regional level and provide rich insights for the improvement of regional policy designs. This editorial outlines the general theme of the special issue and briefly summarizes the main results of the contributions. It en…
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…
Modelling Research Policy
This paper presents the agent-based model INFSO-SKIN, which provides ex-ante evaluation of possible funding policies in Horizon 2020 for the European Commission’s DG Information Society and Media (DG INFSO). Informed by a large dataset recording the details of funded projects, the simulation model is set up to reproduce and assess the funding strategies, the funded organisations and projects, and the resulting network structures of the Commission…
On the ‘How Many Europes’ Debate
This paper shapes and identifies the varieties and dynamics of service economies in the EU 25. By adopting a neo‐Schumpeterian and evolutionary approach it contributes to enrich previous research dealing with national disparities from the perspective of services economic structures. Communalities across countries and time are detected and discussed at different levels of analysis. A wide set of models across the European region is found from an a…
Avoiding evolutionary inefficiencies in innovation networks
Innovation policy is in need of a rationale which allows for the design and evaluation of policy instruments. In economic policy, focus has traditionally been placed on market failures, and efficiency measures have been used to decide whether policy should intervene and which instrument should be applied. In innovation policy, this rationale cannot be meaningfully applied because of the uncertain and open character of innovation processes. Uncert…
Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics
The Twin Peaks in National Income
Economic Development, Variety and Employment
International audience
The Twin Peaks in National Income
La forme en pics jumeaux (ou bi-modale) de la distribution du revenu par tête est une question largement débattue dans les recherches en économie de la croissance. Les données montrent que la distribution du revenu national commence avec une structure uni-modale en 1960 et évolue par la suite vers une structure bi-modale ou en pics jumeaux. Le résultat empirique peut être reproduit au moyen d’un modèle basé théoriquement sur le principe de synerg…
On the performance and strategy of innovation systems
Learning to change
The transition towards a bioeconomy is considered a powerful approach to combating current trends of unsustainability. To date, the concept has been widely perceived as a predominantly technical endeavor. This is, however, not sufficient and will not really tackle the global sustainability challenges. Therefore, the imparting of technological knowledge must be accompanied by instruction in other types of knowledge, particularly transformative kno…
Systemic interventions in regional innovation systems
The paper employs a regional innovation system concept and divides system failures into three categories: institutional infrastructure, organizational landscape and structural connectedness. To analyze the economic effects of systemic interventions, it employs the VISIBLE model, which allows ex-ante policy experiments to be conducted in a virtual simulation environment. First, the findings show that regional learning and knowledge exchange are ac…
Evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes
Focusing on ‘evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes’, this special issue addresses a highly topical subject. The contributions cover a number of distinct but complementary issues of innovation processes at the regional level and provide rich insights for the improvement of regional policy designs. This editorial outlines the general theme of the special issue and briefly summarizes the main results of the contributions. It en…
Economic Development, Variety and Employment
International audience
The Twin Peaks in National Income
The Twin Peaks in National Income
La forme en pics jumeaux (ou bi-modale) de la distribution du revenu par tête est une question largement débattue dans les recherches en économie de la croissance. Les données montrent que la distribution du revenu national commence avec une structure uni-modale en 1960 et évolue par la suite vers une structure bi-modale ou en pics jumeaux. Le résultat empirique peut être reproduit au moyen d’un modèle basé théoriquement sur le principe de synerg…
The Twin Peaks in National Income
Economic Development, Variety and Employment
International audience
The Twin Peaks in National Income
La forme en pics jumeaux (ou bi-modale) de la distribution du revenu par tête est une question largement débattue dans les recherches en économie de la croissance. Les données montrent que la distribution du revenu national commence avec une structure uni-modale en 1960 et évolue par la suite vers une structure bi-modale ou en pics jumeaux. Le résultat empirique peut être reproduit au moyen d’un modèle basé théoriquement sur le principe de synerg…
Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics
Avoiding evolutionary inefficiencies in innovation networks
Innovation policy is in need of a rationale which allows for the design and evaluation of policy instruments. In economic policy, focus has traditionally been placed on market failures, and efficiency measures have been used to decide whether policy should intervene and which instrument should be applied. In innovation policy, this rationale cannot be meaningfully applied because of the uncertain and open character of innovation processes. Uncert…
Modelling Research Policy
This paper presents the agent-based model INFSO-SKIN, which provides ex-ante evaluation of possible funding policies in Horizon 2020 for the European Commission’s DG Information Society and Media (DG INFSO). Informed by a large dataset recording the details of funded projects, the simulation model is set up to reproduce and assess the funding strategies, the funded organisations and projects, and the resulting network structures of the Commission…
On the ‘How Many Europes’ Debate
This paper shapes and identifies the varieties and dynamics of service economies in the EU 25. By adopting a neo‐Schumpeterian and evolutionary approach it contributes to enrich previous research dealing with national disparities from the perspective of services economic structures. Communalities across countries and time are detected and discussed at different levels of analysis. A wide set of models across the European region is found from an a…
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…
Learning to change
The transition towards a bioeconomy is considered a powerful approach to combating current trends of unsustainability. To date, the concept has been widely perceived as a predominantly technical endeavor. This is, however, not sufficient and will not really tackle the global sustainability challenges. Therefore, the imparting of technological knowledge must be accompanied by instruction in other types of knowledge, particularly transformative kno…
Systemic interventions in regional innovation systems
The paper employs a regional innovation system concept and divides system failures into three categories: institutional infrastructure, organizational landscape and structural connectedness. To analyze the economic effects of systemic interventions, it employs the VISIBLE model, which allows ex-ante policy experiments to be conducted in a virtual simulation environment. First, the findings show that regional learning and knowledge exchange are ac…
Evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes
Focusing on ‘evolution and co-evolution of regional innovation processes’, this special issue addresses a highly topical subject. The contributions cover a number of distinct but complementary issues of innovation processes at the regional level and provide rich insights for the improvement of regional policy designs. This editorial outlines the general theme of the special issue and briefly summarizes the main results of the contributions. It en…
A Framework for Ethical Research and Innovation
Crisis-driven innovation and fundamental human needs
As a microcosm for future challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits increasingly transboundary dynamics, causing interconnected problems across multiple societal systems. To examine the role of innovations as a social mechanism to reconcile these arising challenges, we view the unfolding of the pandemic through the lens of a content analysis of 707 innovation projects that address the fundamental human needs of consumers and businesses. This stu…
Social Network Metric-Based Interventions? Experiments with an Agent-Based Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Metropolitan Region
We present and use an agent-based model to study interventions for suppression, mitigation, and vaccination in coping with the COVID-pandemic. Unlike metapopulation models, our agent-based model permits experimenting with micro-level interventions in social interactions at individual sites. We compare common macro-level interventions applicable to everyone (e.g., keep distance, close all schools) to targeted interventions in the social network sp…
Time to Say ‘Good Buy’ to the Passive Consumer? A Conceptual Review of the Consumer in the Bioeconomy
Successful transitions to a sustainable bioeconomy require novel technologies, processes, and practices as well as a general agreement about the overarching normative direction of innovation. Both requirements necessarily involve collective action by those individuals who purchase, use, and co-produce novelties: the consumers. Based on theoretical considerations borrowed from evolutionary innovation economics and consumer social responsibility, w…
Quo Vadis, Bioeconomy? the Necessity of Normative Considerations in the Transition
This collection of papers builds on the idea that the bioeconomy provides a framework for potentially effective solutions addressing the grand global challenges by a turn towards an increased use of biological resources, towards renewability and circularity. Consequently, it cannot be perceived as an end in itself. Thus, innovative endeavors within this bioeconomy framework require a serious examination of their normative premises and implication…
On the performance and strategy of innovation systems
Food security assessment in the light of sustainable development goals
Assessing the relevance of different proximity dimensions for knowledge exchange and (co-)creation in sustainability-oriented innovation networks
Innovations incorporating environmental and social considerations can address many sustainability challenges. Such sustainable innovations emerge in networks often comprising actors from business, academia, civil society, and government. The crucial interactions here are the (co-)creation and transfer of knowledge, mutual learning, and experimentation in different environments. To better understand these knowledge processes and hence the eventual…
Towards a sustainable bioeconomy in Türkiye
Türkiye’s rich biodiversity, extensive agricultural sector and strategic geographic location provide a solid foundation for developing a sustainable bioeconomy. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the bioeconomy in Türkiye, and thereby, emphasizing its potential for intensifying EU-Türkiye cooperation. We use a descriptive mixed-method approach. This multi-stage process includes a literature revi…
Assessing Lean Startup for sustainable business models
Transforming Innovation Systems
Amid escalating global crises and growing demands for sustainability transitions, innovation systems (IS) research has undergone a “normative turn,” shifting the focus of research toward addressing complex societal challenges. This paper compares three approaches that have emerged in response to this shift: Dedicated Innovation Systems (DIS), Mission‐Oriented Innovation Systems (MIS), and Challenge‐Oriented Regional Innovation Systems (CORIS). We…
Short food supply chains and the sustainable transition of agri-food systems
The persistence of global hunger and the slow progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have intensified discussions on the sustainability and effectiveness of current agri-food supply chains (AFSCs). In this context, short food supply chains (SFSCs) have emerged as promising alternatives to foster sustainable transitions in AFSCs by strengthening local food systems, reducing environmental impacts, and improving food acce…
Political science (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Knowledge management (6 works) · Sustainable development (6 works) · Ecology (5 works)