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Social Sciences and Humanities
Norway
2022

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
52
Citations
18508
World Ranking
2373
National Ranking
172

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Lars Coenen is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a significant focus on interdisciplinary approaches linking economic and social development to environmental and regional studies.

Coenen's main research topics include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making

Their subfields of study reflect an integration of economic, environmental, political, and urban perspectives, including:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Urban Studies

Coenen has contributed frequently to several academic journals, with repeated publications in:

  • Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • Regional Studies
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Economic Geography

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Regional foundations of energy transitions," 2021, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Are rapid and inclusive energy and climate transitions oxymorons? Towards principles of responsible acceleration," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Scaling-up nature-based solutions. Lessons from the Living Melbourne strategy," 2020, Geoforum
  • "Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS)," 2020, Regional Studies
  • "Faster, broader, and deeper! Suggested directions for research on net-zero transitions," 2023, Oxford Open Energy

Coenen collaborates regularly with a group of researchers, reflecting interdisciplinary and cross-institutional engagements. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
  • Sebastian Fastenrath
  • Kathryn Davidson
  • Markus Grillitsch
  • Robert Hassink

Best Publications

  • Knowledge bases and Regional Innovation Systems: Comparing Nordic Clusters.

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Bjørn T. Asheim;Lars Coenen

  • Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions

    Lars Coenen;Paul Stephen Benneworth;B. Truffer;B. Truffer

  • The Geography of Sustainability Transitions: Review, Synthesis and Reflections on an Emergent Research Field.

    Teis Hansen;Lars Coenen;Lars Coenen

  • Face-to-Face, Buzz and Knowledge Bases: Socio-Spatial Implications for Learning, Innovation and Innovation Policy

    Björn Asheim;Lars Coenen;Jan Vang-Lauridsen

  • Sustainability transitions in the making: A closer look at actors, strategies and resources

    Jacco Farla;Jochen Markard;Rob Raven;Lars Coenen

  • Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Regional Studies

    Bernhard Truffer;Lars Coenen

  • Contextualising Regional Innovation Systems in a Globalising Learning Economy: On Knowledge Bases and Institutional Frameworks

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Bjørn T. Asheim;Lars Coenen

  • Advancing Sustainable Urban Transformation

    Kes McCormick;Stefan Anderberg;Lars Coenen;Lena Neij

  • Towards a theory of regional diversification : Combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies

    Ron Boschma;Lars Coenen;Koen Frenken;Bernhard Truffer

  • Constructing knowledge-based regional advantage: Implications for regional innovation policy

    Bjorn Asheim;Lars Coenen;Jerker Moodysson;Jan Vang

  • Urban living labs: Governing urban sustainability transitions

    Harriet Bulkeley;Lars Coenen;Niki Frantzeskaki;Christian Hartmann

  • Places and Spaces of Sustainability Transitions: Geographical Contributions to an Emerging Research and Policy Field

    Lars Coenen;Bernhard Truffer

  • Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation

    Timo von Wirth;Lea Fuenfschilling;Niki Frantzeskaki;Lars Coenen

  • Why space matters in technological innovation systems—Mapping global knowledge dynamics of membrane bioreactor technology

    Christian Binz;Bernhard Truffer;Lars Coenen

  • Explaining Spatial Patterns of Innovation: Analytical and Synthetic Modes of Knowledge Creation in the Medicon Valley Life-Science Cluster:

    Jerker Moodysson;Lars Coenen;Bjørn Asheim

  • Path Creation as a Process of Resource Alignment and Anchoring: Industry Formation for On-Site Water Recycling in Beijing

    Christian Binz;Bernhard Truffer;Lars Coenen

  • Nodes, networks and proximities: on the knowledge dynamics of the Medicon Valley biotech cluster

    Lars Coenen;Jerker Moodysson;Bjørn T. Asheim

  • The transition of energy intensive processing industries towards deep decarbonization : characteristics and implications for future research

    Joeri H. Wesseling;Joeri H. Wesseling;Stefan Lechtenböhmer;Max Ahman;Lars J. Nilsson

  • Comparing systems approaches to innovation and technological change for sustainable and competitive economies: an explorative study into conceptual commonalities, differences and complementarities

    Lars Coenen;Fernando J. Díaz López

  • Innovation policy for system-wide transformation : The case of Strategic Innovation Programmes (SIPs) in Sweden

    Markus Grillitsch;Teis Hansen;Teis Hansen;Lars Coenen;Lars Coenen;Johan Miörner

  • Towards a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions

    Lars Coenen;Paul Benneworth;Bernhard Truffer

  • Call for PapersAdvancing sustainable urban transformation

    Kes McCormick;Lena Neij;Stefan Anderberg;Lars Coenen

Frequent Co-Authors

Björn Asheim
Björn Asheim University of Stavanger
Paul Stephen Benneworth
Paul Stephen Benneworth University of Bergen
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Yonglong Lu
Yonglong Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ron Boschma
Ron Boschma Utrecht University
Derk Loorbach
Derk Loorbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
John Grin
John Grin University of Amsterdam
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University

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