New publication in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

The paper "How to build (in) the future? Legitimacy of socio-technical visions in a bio-based construction sector" by Lennart Fischer and Dr. Sebastian Losacker has been published in the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and can be read via the link.

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Drawing on a discourse analysis across a comprehensive set of expert interviews  the paper pinpoint various — sometimes competing — socio-technical visions for a bio-based construction sector in China, India, Germany, and Italy. It further examines legitimacy of socio-technical visions as a necessary condition for their collective adoption by stakeholders in the sector. The paper thereby enables to conceptualize the development and validation of visions, providing a framework for transition studies to track one part of the collective adoption of visions. This, in turn, adds to the understanding of the formation of ideations that potentially influence transition processes.