Innovation is a complex phenomenon and process involving translation of knowledge into new techniques, products, services. It is considered crucial for sustainable agriculture development and achievement of long-term food security. The review describes the diversity of innovation and relates it to agro-food sector. It also sheds light on different innovation models and explores their contributi...

In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling transitions to sustainability. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex systems’ properties that characterize the different theories that deal with transitions to sustainability. ...

Innovations have an important role in sustainability transitions and although transition policy is broader than just the stimulation of innovations for sustainability innovation policy can be an important part of transition policy. However, in this paper we argue that there is too little attention for the alignment of transition policy and innovation policy and that this misalignment might hamp...

This article explores the role of actors and agency in the literature on sustainability transitions. We reviewed 386 journal articles on transition management and sustainability transitions listed in Scopus from 1995 to 2014. We investigate the thesis that actors have been neglected in this literature in favor of more abstract system concepts. Results show that this thesis cannot be confirmed o...

What constitutes a sustainability transition? We identify transitions as premised on shifts in accountability relations – assessments of conformance with institutional controls coupled application sanctions, incentives, and subsidies which structure the selection pressures that shape future demographics, technical practices, social material trajectories an economic sector or domain. Contestatio...