Technological lock-in and the role of innovation

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1 Technological lock-in and the role of innovation Timothy J. Foxon Dept. of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ. Chapter 22 in ‘Handbook of Sustainable Development', G. Atkinson, S. Dietz and E. Neumayer (eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (to appear, 2006) 1. Sustainability and the need for technological innovation As the Chapters in this Handbook illustrate, despite increases in our understanding of the issues raised by the challenge of environmental, social and economic sustainability, movement has been frustratingly slow towards achieving levels of resource use and waste production that are within

• sustainable innovation
• institutional systems
• explanatory levels
• current ‘transition
• technological systems
• technologies
• economic systems
• policy
• innovation