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René Kemp is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where their research primarily focuses on environmental science and business, management and accounting. Their scholarly output encompasses 26 publications in environmental science and 15 in business-related fields.

René Kemp's work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, sociology and political science, management science and operations research, management of technology and innovation, and management, monitoring, policy and law. Their research also engages with multiple main topics such as sustainability and climate change governance, complex systems and decision making, innovative approaches in technology and social development, innovation, technology and society, sustainable supply chain management, building energy and comfort optimization, and environmental impact and sustainability.

The researcher has published several recent papers covering diverse issues around sustainability, innovation, and energy-saving. Notable publications include:

  • Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions (2020, Research Policy)
  • Why Sustainable Development Requires Societal Innovation and Cannot Be Achieved without This (2020, Sustainability)
  • Wet peatland utilisation for climate protection - An international survey of paludiculture innovation (2021, Cleaner Engineering and Technology)
  • Investigating the adoption of energy-saving measures in residential sector: The contribution to carbon neutrality of China and Europe (2022, Resources Conservation and Recycling)
  • Split incentive effects on the adoption of technical and behavioral energy-saving measures in the household sector in Western Europe (2020, Energy Policy)

René Kemp frequently collaborates with several coauthors, notably Véronique Vasseur, Serdar Türkeli, Patrick Huntjens, Bonno Pel, and Hongguang Nie. Such collaborations highlight an active engagement with multidisciplinary teams in their fields of study.

Their research contributions have appeared often in a range of venues specializing in sustainability and environmental innovation. Common publication venues include Sustainability, Energy Research & Social Science, Preprints.org, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

In addition to journal articles, René Kemp has also contributed to book publications. One example is the book "Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability. ROUTES Towards Sustainability Network" published by Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Regime shifts to sustainability through processes of niche formation : the approach of strategic niche management

    René Kemp;Johan Schot;Remco Hoogma

  • More evolution than revolution: transition management in public policy

    Jan Rotmans;René Kemp;Marjolein van Asselt

  • Transition management as a model for managing processes of co-evolution towards sustainable development

    René Kemp;Derk Loorbach;Jan Rotmans

  • Reflexive governance for sustainable development

    Jan-Peter Voss;Dierk Bauknecht;René Kemp

  • Experimenting for Sustainable Transport: The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

    Remco Hoogma;René Kemp;Johan Schot;Bernhard Truffer

  • Governance for sustainable development: moving from theory to practice

    Rene Kemp;Saeed Parto;Robert B. Gibson

  • Environmental policy and technical change

    René Kemp

  • Technology and the transition to environmental sustainability

    René Kemp

  • Circular Economy Policies in China and Europe

    Will McDowall;Yong-Jian Geng;Beijia Huang;Eva Bartekova;Eva Bartekova

  • Dynamics in socio-technical systems : typology of change processes and contrasting case studies

    Frank W. Geels;René Kemp

  • Evolutionary approaches for sustainable innovation policies: From niche to paradigm?

    Jan Nill;René Kemp

  • Constructing Transition Paths Through the Management of Niches

    R Kemp;A Arie Rip;JW Johan Schot

  • The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments — A typical case of the blind men and the elephant?

    René Kemp;Serena Pontoglio

  • Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment

    Flor Avelino;Julia Wittmayer;Bonno Pel;Paul Weaver

  • Measuring eco-innovation

    Anthony Arundel;René Kemp

  • The Management of the Co-Evolution of Technical, Environmental and Social Systems

    René Kemp;Jan Rotmans

  • Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth

    Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Mark Swilling;Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsacker;Yong Ren

  • The emergence of an electric mobility trajectory

    Marc Dijk;Renato J. Orsato;René Kemp

  • Environmental policy and technical change : a comparison of the technological impact of policy instruments

    R.P.M. Kemp

  • Automobility in transition? : a socio-technical analysis of sustainable transport

    Frank Geels;Rene Kemp;Geoffrey Dudley;Glenn Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Weaver
Paul M. Weaver University of Limerick
Frank W. Geels
Frank W. Geels University of Manchester
Johan Schot
Johan Schot Utrecht University
Derk Loorbach
Derk Loorbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pim Martens
Pim Martens Maastricht University
Ester van der Voet
Ester van der Voet Leiden University
Timothy O'Riordan
Timothy O'Riordan University of East Anglia
Arie Rip
Arie Rip University of Twente
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales

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