MLP Flashcards
MLP: social science
dichotomies
stability-change
agency-structure
behaviour-technology
what does MLP combine?
evolutionary economics, sociology of innovation, and (neo)institutional theory
MLP’s three analytical levels
- radical niche-innovations,
- incumbent socio-technical systems,
- exogenous landscape developments
What are the four phases in MLP study?
- experimentation
- stabilisation
3 diffusion, disruption - institutionalisation (institutionalization )anchoring
4 socio-technical transition pathways according to Frank W. Geels
- substitution,
- transformation,
- reconfiguration and de-alignment
- re-alignment
the 7 seven current research topics (Frank W. Geels)
1) niche-regime interaction
2) regime destabilisation, decline, and phase-out,
3) diffusion and acceleration,
4) multi-system interaction,
5) whole system reconfiguration,
6) incumbent reorientation,
7) trade-offs between the speed and depth of change.
what does MLP sustainability transitions research focus on?
Transitions in socio-technical systems (such as energy, transport, housing, and agri-food systems
what does “regimes” refers to in MLP literature
existing unsustainable systems and the associated rules and institutions
what is techno-economic lock-in mechanisms?
- sunk investments (in plants and infrastructure),
- low cost (because of scale economies)
- high performance (because of decades of learning-by-doing improvements)
what is social and cognitive lock-in mechanisms?
Routines and mind-
sets that blind actors to developments outside their focus
What is political lock-in mechanisms?
existing regulations that favour incumbents and lobbying efforts by vested interests to maintain the status quo and hamper radical innovation
MLP 3 levels
1.Radical ‘green’ innovations
2. Green niche-innovations
3. Niche and regime developments (socio-technical landscape)
at what MLP level does lock-in mechanisms effect?
level 2 Green niche-innovations “systems and regimes are difficult to change because they are entrenched and stabilised by various lock-in mechanisms”
what is the diffrence between Rip and Kemp (1996) MLP and Geels (2002) MLP?
Rip and Kemp (1996) developed a basic MLP-version to understand the biography of radical innovations as emerging in small niches.
Geels (2002) elaborated this into a more full-fledged Multi-Level Perspective, which
broadened the focus from technological to socio-technical regimes and placed greater
emphasis on the alignment of emerging niche-innovations with ongoing developments at
regime and landscape levels
