The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the
past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale …

There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental
adjustments, aiming instead for society‐wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical …

This article responds to increasing public and academic discourses on social innovation,
which often rest on the assumption that social innovation can drive societal change and …

This paper examines the evolution in the conceptualization of Social Innovation (SI) with a
view to elucidating the multiplication of uses of the term over the last half century. We …

There is growing interest in the roles of the sharing economy and grassroots innovation in
the transition to sustainable societies. Grassroots innovation research has tended to assume …

Recent literature on social innovation highlights its conceptual ambiguity and emphasizes
how technology has contributed to the renovation of this 200 year old practice, calling for …

This study explored how social housing communities can contribute to the transition to a
circular economy (CE) in cities. The CE promotes ways for rethinking and reshaping current …

This article proposes a critical reflection on the concept of social innovation, arguing that it
can be understood as a 'magic concept'as theorized by Pollitt and Hupe. It is a pervasive …

This editorial introduces the special feature on the role of game-changers, broadly
conceptualized as macro-trends that change the “rules of the game,” in processes of …

A loose coalition of advocates for Open Government Data (OGD) argue that such data has
the potential to have a transformative impact by catalyzing innovation across sectors of the …