1.
Destined to travel, vol 2:
Energy transition
implementation arena in Finland
2017
Sampsa Hyysalo 16.2.2017

2.
Background 1: Third generation
innovation policy: Introducing
directionality
Background 2: Transition
Management

3.
Geels, Frank W, and Johan
Schot. 2007. “Typology of
Sociotechnical Transition
Pathways.” Research
Policy 36: 399–417

4.
Transition management “too Dutch” to travel
- Policy making style and deliberation
mechanisms different in each country
- eg. Finnish energy and climate field: Long
term climate roadmap 2050, energy and
climate strategy 2030
- 140 energy transition related experiments
Heiskanen, Eva, Sirkku Kivisaari, Raimo Lovio, and Per Mickwitz. 2009. “Designed to
Travel? Transition Management Encounters Environmental and Innovation Policy
Histories in Finland.” Policy Sciences 42 (4): 409

5.
Energy Transition Implementation Arena
2030: Overview
16.2. KICK-OFF
16.3.2017 Workshop 1: Current challenges and change drivers (c1)
20.4.2017 Workshop 2: Change targets for 2030 (c2, c3, c4)
18.5.2017 Workshop 3 Pathways of change (c5, c6)
15.6.2017 Workshop 4. Prioritization of pathways and steps (c6, c7, c8)
24.8.2017 Workshop 5. Immediate actions and experiments (c9, c10)
19.10.2017 Workshop 6. Synthesis transition agenda document
Constituencies
• MPs
• Ministries: TEM, YM, EV, LVM,
• Green start ups: transit, property
• Investors
• Energy company change makers
• Energy technology companies
• Large energy industrial users
• Forerunner cities and
municipalities
• NGOs
• Citizen users
• Sitra, Tekes
• Academics on energy transition

6.
Design Issue Transition management concept Transition management in practice Re-designing transition management SET-Response in Energy
Implementation TA
Goals Overcoming ‘persistent problems’ of
environmental policy, achieving
transition in pervasive socio-technical
systems
The promotion of technological
niches with commercial potential
for the world market
Nurture broader societal discourse on
sustainable development, objectives of
transitions, and challenge the legitimacy of
existing socio-technical systems
Refocus on cross sectoral
implementation of energy
transition
Organisation
of transition
arena
Visionary regime actors and innovative
newcomers
Dominance by regime incumbents
with
vested interests
Establish principles and guidelines for
selection of participants and moderation of
interaction processes to ensure broad
participation
As suggested originally but
enforced, see PSPC
Role of
visions
Construction of visions by frontrunners
informs and precedes
strategydevelopment and design of
experiments
Visions are constructed by
incumbents and
lack concreteness to inform
strategies or
select experiments
Construction of visions by participants to
make tension between normative desires
and feasibility considerations productive
and generate creativity
National 2030 government vision
taken as starting point: additions
and alternatives spelled out.
Focus on implementation of paths
to overcome vagueness
Experiment-
ation
Real world experiments with portfolio of
options for alternative socio-technical
systems
Evasion of political choices with
respect to public support for
technological options
Procedures to select, design experiments to
secure linkage with public debate about
sustainability
Experiments linked to
transformation paths. Gaps
identified.
Evaluation
and Learning
Evolutionary selection process, options
prove their feasibility in real world
context, evaluation with respect to
potential to contribute to the vision
Evaluation by insiders according to
narrow techno-economic criteria
Evaluation criteria negotiated widely for the
broad societal implications of alternative
pathways to sustainable development, learning
from experiments and overall process
embedded in democratic Institutions.
Process and outcome evaluation in
and of TA, fostering learning
among participants and from
participants after TA
Sources of
legitimacy
The goal of sustainable development Economic and technological
position and expertise of
participants
Inclusive participation, transparency and
publicity of choices, coupling with established
institutions of representative democracy
Anchoring to ECS 2030, Hosted by
Sitra’s PSPC
Embedding in
political
context
Transition management is being
implemented by choice of government,
transition arenas recommend successive
changes to political institutions
Transition management is held up
as an ideal concept while
established institutions and
power constellations constrain
implementation
Policy design as innovation process, work
towards realisation of objectives by
continually designing in context
TA to connect experiments and
policy –Finland has many
committees or visioning bodies
running, over 100 experiments
related to energy transition
Participation
support
Facilitated TA deliberation Talk with schematic
representations
The support for the quality of deliberation not
addressed
Purpose built collaborative design
means to aide interactions