Whither policy innovation? Mapping conceptual engagement with public policy in energy transitions research

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3AA6RFZUGT" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:A6RFZUGT - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001360" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001360</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102632" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.erss.2022.102632</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Whither policy innovation? Mapping conceptual engagement with public policy in energy transitions research

Original language description

A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and policy success – remains unclear. This study analyzes over 8000 publications on energy transitions through a bibliometric review and computational text analysis to create an overview of the scholarship, map conceptual engagement with public policy, and identify the use of the policy innovation lens in the literature. We find that: (i) though the importance of public policy is frequently highlighted in the research, the public policy itself is analyzed only occasionally; (ii) studies focusing on public policy have primarily engaged with the concepts of policy mixes, policy change, and policy process; and (iii) the notions of policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and policy success are hardly employed to understand the sources, speed, spread, or successes of energy transitions. We conclude that the value of the policy innovation lens for energy transitions research remains untapped and propose avenues for scholars to harness this potential.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy Research and Social Science [online]

ISSN

2214-6296

e-ISSN

2214-6326

Volume of the periodical

89

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2022-7-1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129910172