I have had a couple (maybe three?) letters in the pink 'un over the years. But never the lead letter. Is it about COP26? Is it about industrial decarbonisation and the politics thereof? Is it heck. It's about my misspent youth reading in excess... And death. Always with the death... Is "macabre Buddhist propaganda" a... Continue Reading →
We should of course be angry at the right people at the right time and in the right ways (1). There has been an achingly successful campaign first to deny the existence of climate change, then to say that doing anything about it can either wait or would be massively expensive. We should be angry... Continue Reading →
This paper is a response to six criticisms made of the authors' "baby" - the Technlogical Innovation Systems appraoch. Markard, J., Hekkert, M and Jacobsson, S. 2015. The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 16, 76–86 They take each one in turn, give what seems to be to my inexpert... Continue Reading →
So, focusing my next batch of academic reading around the Technological Innovation Systems concept. If you have other things on this, besides these seven, you think I should read, lemme know. First up Markard J. and Truffer, B. 2008. Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework. Research Policy 37 596–615 Lots... Continue Reading →
So, I am, as per my last post, less ignorant about my ignorance. As far as I can see, through a glass darkly and all that... And I think that the most important bit of ignorance that I should do something about in the short-term, is on Technological Innovation Systems (see handy wikipedia entry here).... Continue Reading →
It's done. I have now read 30 academic articles in 24 days. And I am significantly less ignorant about my own ignorance, which is as much as could reasonably have been expected. Here's the list of 20 I read, and the piece I wrote after that. Here's the list of 10 that I just read.... Continue Reading →
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 →
I am brewing a piece (rant) on the last 3 years, from the end of 2018 to now. The gist is that the trajectory of the "climate movement" was entirely predictable in the round. Yes, specific idiocies like the XR tube action, and getting hit by a pandemic were not in anyone's particular scenario, but... 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 →
