Better get the full disclosure in here - Prof Newell was external examiner on my PhD, and also a referee for the job I am about to start. So if this were totally pants, I would be unlikely to say so. This is not totally pants. It's not even a little bit pants (but MRDA,... Continue Reading →

This was damned good Craig, M. 2020. ‘Treasury Control’ and the British Environmental State: The Political Economy of Green Development Strategy in UK Central Government New Political Economy. 25 (1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2018.1526269  As the epigram wants you to understand, this is not new.  “Treasury control is something that you live under, that you suffer from, that you profit by; and... Continue Reading →

Busch, J, Foxon, T. and Taylor, P. 2018. Designing industrial strategy for a low carbon transformation, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 29 (2018) 114–125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2018.07.005 Much meaty goodness in this comprehensive overview of green industrial policy and the literature around it... The authors "draw on and combine insights from neo-Schumpeterian (evolutionary) and ecological economics perspectives to... Continue Reading →

Another absolutely brilliant article, with serious conceptual chops. A thickening/broadening of TIS, forcing you to think more "within" a sector, seeing the different ways a mature/declining sector might go (or rather, actors within it might go - a real Theseus' ship situation there...) Andersen, A. and Gulbrandsen, M. 2020. The innovation and industry dynamics of... Continue Reading →

Späth, P., Rohracher, H., and von Radecki, A., 2016. Incumbent actors as niche agents: the German car industry and the taming of the “Stuttgart E-mobility region”. Sustainability, 8 (3), 252. doi:10.3390/su8030252      I read this for more on the "how incumbents behave" question, and it didn't disappoint. As folks (including in articles I've read this month)... Continue Reading →

So, here's another - am now halfway through my reading goal, with 10 days left to read 5 more papers... Max Åhman, Lars J. Nilsson & Bengt Johansson (2017) Global climate policy and deep decarbonization of energy-intensive industries, Climate Policy, 17:5, 634-649,  As they say "The aim of this study is to analyse how the global climate... Continue Reading →

Yikes. I just ain't ever gonna be this smart. I mean, I can see how it's done, like watching Roger Federer play tennis. You can understand the commentators explaining. But to actually DO it? Yeah, good luck with that. Oh well. Fortunately though, to collect a pay check, I am not going to have to... Continue Reading →