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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mehtälä, Mari
• Lehtimäki, Tuula
• Komulainen, Hanna

Titel

Shaping markets for sustainable innovations: intermediation through a public-private innovation network

Ist Teil von

• Technology analysis & strategic management, 2023-06, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-15

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sustainable innovations have the potential to drive market systems and behaviours towards greater sustainability, yet the collective efforts of various network actors involved in shaping markets for these innovations are poorly understood. This paper examines the activities that public-private innovation network actors engage in when shaping markets for a side-stream-based sustainable innovation. A qualitative case study exploring a technological sustainable innovation that enables the valorisation and reuse of side-streams is used to illustrate the complex nature of market-shaping activities at the crossroads of different industries. The findings indicate that developing sustainable innovations and shaping markets at the intersection of traditionally separate industries require both side-stream producers and side-stream users to align and synchronise their market-shaping processes. To implement these alignments, different forms of intermediation are needed: brokering for exchange, configuring the technological system, and facilitating narrative construction. The public-private innovation network plays a key role in this intermediation by bringing together various actors, connecting their activities, and reconciling divergent perspectives. Our study contributes to a better understanding of market-shaping in a networked, multi-industry setting and the importance of intermediation through public-private innovation networks.