Innovation and institutional change: the transition to a sustainable ...
Innovation and institutional change: the transition to a sustainable ... Innovation and institutional change: the transition to a sustainable ...
Exploring transitions through sociotechnical scenarios 207 The primary aim of this chapter is to show the promise of sociotechnical scenarios as a reflexive tool for transition policy. Sociotechnical scenarios can help design more robust transition oriented policies, in the sense that these policies can contribute to multiple transition paths and do not facilitate one path while blocking others. The approach can also help select promising niches that can form the seeds for a transition and thus are good options for experimentation in the near term. In particular the STSc tool is well-suited to explore how combinations of niches may open up different pathways. Transition policy should not just look at individual technologies, but also at processes of hybridisation and linkages between technologies and specific user preferences. The STSc tool is not an automaton that provides a detailed prescription of instruments. We characterize STSc as a ‘tool’ rather than as a ‘method’. The use of a tool requires skills on the part of the user, while a method refers to a sequence of steps that automatically lead to the end result. STSc is a tool, because it requires at least two kinds of skills: empirical knowledge of the relevant domain and theoretical sensitivity regarding the co-evolution of technology and society. Maybe this hampers the transfer of the tool to others. But mindful use of the tool may also lead to more interesting outcomes. As a weakness, the tool in its present shape is that it is not well suited to compute the effects of (combinations of) policy instruments. For instance, it does not render suggestions for the exact level of eco-tax, adoption subsidies etc. Other methods may be better suited for that (e.g. computer models). This means that sociotechnical scenarios do not replace other methods, but provide an additional tool to the arsenal of future exploration.
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