Susana Borrás
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana Borrás |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana |
| FAMILY NAME | Borrás |
| SIGNATURE | BORRAS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The transformative capacity of local administrations in sustainability transitions
The uptake of green innovation is crucial for local sustainability transitions but is far from a traditional task for local administrations. It is therefore important to study how they build transformative capacity to implement directionality. This paper compares three Danish cases of local administrations implementing the rollout of solar energy. Using a novel conceptual framework, we examine how they interpret mandates, mobilise resources and d…
Technology transfer offices in the diffusion of transformative innovation
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) serve as intermediaries supporting the commercialization of new technologies in the market, with the aim of enhancing economic competitiveness. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of innovation's role in addressing societal challenges, referred to as transformative innovation. In this context, TTOs are expanding their scope and mission, tasked with acting as intermediaries aligning societal needs—beyo…
Colonizing the atmosphere
In the new 'Age of the Anthropocene', the Earth's atmosphere, like other elements of Nature, is rapidly being colonized by a minority of the world's population, at no cost, threatening the security of all humanity and the stability of the planet. The development processes of the great emitters of greenhouse gases have transferred social and environmental costs to all the world population, especially the most impoverished ones. This article is a c…
New Transitions from Human Rights to the Environment to the Rights of Nature
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New Transitions from Human Rights to the Environment to the Rights of Nature
The weaknesses of our environmental laws stem in large part from the fact that legal systems treat the natural world as property that can be exploited and degraded, rather than as an integral ecological partner with its own rights to exist and thrive. This article analyzes the recent rise of a new generation of environmental laws which reject the ‘false dogma’ of ‘humans over nature’ and instead recognize our interconnectedness with the natural w…
Measuring environmental injustice
This paper takes ecological debt as a measure of environmental injustice, and appraises this idea as a driving force for change in the international legal system. Environmental justice is understood here as a fair distribution of charges and benefits derived from using natural resources, in order to provide minimal welfare standards to all human beings, including future generations. Ecological debt measures this injustice, as an unfair and illegi…
The Governance of Socio-Technical Systems
Abandonment of socio-technical systems occurs more often than one would expect. Companies cancel the development, production or support/service of devices, technologies and even established systems. For example, in 2011, Siemens exited from building nuclear power plants; and even a state agency like NASA has a long track of stopping systems before or after start-up. Yet, we know little about how socio-technical systems cease to exist and what it …
The choice of innovation policy instruments
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
This article is about what governments have done and could do to promote the production, diffusion, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in order to realize national objectives. This article begins with “story-telling” based on sketchy historical facts. The aim of the two stories is to illustrate that innovation policy covers a wide set of issues that have been on the agenda far back in history while still remaining important today. Furt…
The `Learning' Economy in Contemporary Societies
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
Cohesion Policy in the Political Economy of the European Union
Compared to the larger projects of the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union, cohesion policy has often been ascribed a secondary role. Considered as a side payment from the richer to the poorer member states, it has been reduced to the political margins of European integration. In this paper, we set out to question this interpretation by placing the `cohesion issue' in a broader socio-economic and political context. It is the main claim …
Technology in the European construction
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
Technology in the European construction
Technology in the European construction
Cohesion Policy in the Political Economy of the European Union
Compared to the larger projects of the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union, cohesion policy has often been ascribed a secondary role. Considered as a side payment from the richer to the poorer member states, it has been reduced to the political margins of European integration. In this paper, we set out to question this interpretation by placing the `cohesion issue' in a broader socio-economic and political context. It is the main claim …
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
The `Learning' Economy in Contemporary Societies
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
This article is about what governments have done and could do to promote the production, diffusion, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in order to realize national objectives. This article begins with “story-telling” based on sketchy historical facts. The aim of the two stories is to illustrate that innovation policy covers a wide set of issues that have been on the agenda far back in history while still remaining important today. Furt…
The choice of innovation policy instruments
The Governance of Socio-Technical Systems
Abandonment of socio-technical systems occurs more often than one would expect. Companies cancel the development, production or support/service of devices, technologies and even established systems. For example, in 2011, Siemens exited from building nuclear power plants; and even a state agency like NASA has a long track of stopping systems before or after start-up. Yet, we know little about how socio-technical systems cease to exist and what it …
New Transitions from Human Rights to the Environment to the Rights of Nature
The weaknesses of our environmental laws stem in large part from the fact that legal systems treat the natural world as property that can be exploited and degraded, rather than as an integral ecological partner with its own rights to exist and thrive. This article analyzes the recent rise of a new generation of environmental laws which reject the ‘false dogma’ of ‘humans over nature’ and instead recognize our interconnectedness with the natural w…
Measuring environmental injustice
This paper takes ecological debt as a measure of environmental injustice, and appraises this idea as a driving force for change in the international legal system. Environmental justice is understood here as a fair distribution of charges and benefits derived from using natural resources, in order to provide minimal welfare standards to all human beings, including future generations. Ecological debt measures this injustice, as an unfair and illegi…
New Transitions from Human Rights to the Environment to the Rights of Nature
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Colonizing the atmosphere
In the new 'Age of the Anthropocene', the Earth's atmosphere, like other elements of Nature, is rapidly being colonized by a minority of the world's population, at no cost, threatening the security of all humanity and the stability of the planet. The development processes of the great emitters of greenhouse gases have transferred social and environmental costs to all the world population, especially the most impoverished ones. This article is a c…
Technology transfer offices in the diffusion of transformative innovation
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) serve as intermediaries supporting the commercialization of new technologies in the market, with the aim of enhancing economic competitiveness. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of innovation's role in addressing societal challenges, referred to as transformative innovation. In this context, TTOs are expanding their scope and mission, tasked with acting as intermediaries aligning societal needs—beyo…
The transformative capacity of local administrations in sustainability transitions
The uptake of green innovation is crucial for local sustainability transitions but is far from a traditional task for local administrations. It is therefore important to study how they build transformative capacity to implement directionality. This paper compares three Danish cases of local administrations implementing the rollout of solar energy. Using a novel conceptual framework, we examine how they interpret mandates, mobilise resources and d…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Environmental law and policy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)