Dear friends and colleagues,
This is the last Call for Abstracts 🔽 for a Special Issue in ResearchPolicy on "Multi-system innovation: Emergence, dynamics, and impact".
In light of current globalchallenges, such as social and environmental problems (e.g., climate change, mobility, energy, employment, health, aging), a deeper understanding of the wider systemness of innovation, or "multi-system innovation", is needed to foster the emergence and implementation of integrated or interconnected solutions to enable synergies between technologies, fulfill societal functions, and move towards achieving the sustainable development goals.
MultiSystemInnovations (e.g., electric vehicles, medical diagnostics, industry 4.0, smart cities, wearable technology, circular business models) refer to new technologies and products that emerge at the intersection of two or more (socio-technical) systems (e.g., sectors, industries or parts of a value chain).
💡 The aim of this special issue is to shed new light on the emergence, dynamics, and impact of multi-system innovation, with a particular focus on the overarching directionality, the nature and kinds of interactions between multiple socio-technical systems, including the actors, their constellations and needs, and the role of policy.
The contributions to the special issue should improve the theoretical concepts and empirical analysis of structural change processes associated with multi-system innovations in diverse contexts (e.g., healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, heavy industry).
🔔 There is a new special issue process in Research Policy. In a first step, we submitted a letter of interest for this special issue, which has been approved. In the next step, we now seek extended abstract submissions from which we select potential contributions. Then, a full special issue proposal will be developed and submitted to the journal with the selected abstracts attached. If we receive a positive decision by the Research Policy editors, we will host a paper development workshop, after which authors can submit their full papers. These will be then subject to a standard review process. The timeline is specified in the attachment.
▶️ For initial submission, please send a title, authors, abstract (max. 1,000 words incl. theory, data and methods used, results and contribution), brief biographies (max. 50 words), affiliations and contact details of the (co-)author(s) until April 30th, 2025 to ann.hipp@thuenen.de.
Important note: Please follow these submission guidelines; otherwise, we will not be able to consider your submission! There will be also no extended submission deadline!
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Ann Hipp, Martin Kalthaus, and Jochen Markard (Guest Editorial Team)
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Dr. Ann Hipp (Thünen Institute of Rural Economics and University of Bremen)
Prof. Dr. Martin Kalthaus (University of Southern Denmark)
PD Dr. Jochen Markard (Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
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