Social innovation is gaining attention as a pivotal dimension of socio-technical transitions
with renewable energy prosumerism as a prominent example. However, this example also …

This introduction to the special issue on 'Advancing the understanding of social innovation in
sustainability transitions' is situated at the intersection of transition studies and social …

The need to rapidly decarbonise energy systems is widely accepted, yet there is growing
criticism of 'top–down', technocentric transition visions. Transitions are, such critics claim …

Energy systems around the globe face multiple, major pressures to transform into more
sustainable ones. Over the past decades numerous, potentially sustainable energy …

Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It
can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes …

An almost inexhaustible number of conceptual approaches has arisen in the past few
decades to seek to explain the interlinked phenomena of energy transitions, low-carbon …

Academic research and policy have focused on sustainable energy transitions for
addressing the societal challenge of climate change for a long time, but the concept of …

As current sustainability challenges are increasingly acknowledged to be of a persistent and
systemic nature, sustainability transitions are pursued as likewise systemic solutions …

The multilevel perspective and social practice theory have emerged as competing
approaches for understanding the complexity of sociotechnical change. The relationship …

If transdisciplinary sustainability research is to contribute to sustainability transitions, issues
of power dynamics need to be understood and accounted for. However, examples of …