The governance of socio-technical systems
Subtitle: explaining change
By: edited by Susana Borrás, Professor of Innovation and Governance, Head of Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Jakob Edler, Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy, Executive Director, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester, UK
Series: EU-SPRI Forum on Science, technology and innovation policy series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781784710187
Subjects: Congresses; Technological innovations; Government policy; Technology and state
Notes: Papers presented at a workshop in Copenhagen in March 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Introduction: on governance, systems and change  -- Susana Borrás and Jakob Edler -- 2.; title: The governance of change in socio-technical and innovation systems : three pillars for a conceptual framework  -- Susana Borrás and Jakob Edler -- 3.; title: Anticipatory markets : technical standards as a governance tool in the development of biodegradable plastics  -- Arthur Daemmrich -- 4.; title: Transitioning sustainability : performing 'governing by standards'  -- Allison Loconto and Marc Barbier -- 5.; title: Governance and technological change : the effects of regulation in medical devices  -- David Barberá-Tomás and Jordi Molas-Gallart -- 6.; title: The discontinuation of socio-technical systems as a governance problem  -- Peter Stegmaier, Stefan Kuhlmann and Vincent R. Visser -- 7.; title: Translational research : entrepreneurship, advocacy and programmatic work in the governance of biomedical innovation  -- Etienne Vignola-Gagné, Peter Biegelbauer and Daniel Lehner -- 8.; title: Governing radical change through the emergence of a governance arrangement  -- Aurélie Delemarle and Philippe Larédo -- 9.; title: The who, what, how and why of governing change : first lessons and ways forward -- Susana Borrás and Jakob Edler.