On these topics I have written many articles and (co)authored/edited 6 books. The articles about the greening of technological progress (with Luc Soete), strategic niche management (with Remco Hoogma, Johan Schot and Bernhard Truffer) and transition management (with Jan Rotmans and Derk Loorbach) are key publications. The book Environmental Policy and Technical Change received great acclaim.

My expertise covers various sectors (industry, mobility, energy, waste).

Books

How I view the world

I am viewing the world from an evolutionary institutionalist perspective. Of the large realm of innovation possibilities, a few are selected and used as the basis for further development. The selection has to do with economics (costs and prices) but also with expectations and institutions in the widest possible sense. An important distinction is between regime-preserving innovations (which improve regimes) and disruptive innovations. Disruptive innovations are game changing and typically resisted by regime actors. In two articles in Futures I have written about this. Escaping lock-in is no easy matter. Here the models of strategic niche management and transition management, which I developed with others, may be of use.

As a theorist I was influenced by evolutionary economists Richard Nelson and Stanley Metcalfe and by institutionalists James March and Johan Olsen. I was also influenced by the writings of political scientist Charles Lindblom on incrementalism but always felt that muddling through is not enough for achieving sustainable development. The work of Jan Kooiman and others on modern governance proved useful here. I combined the different insights from innovation studies and governance studiesinto the model of directed incrementalism as a model for sustainable development.

Consultation for policy

For the Environment Council of July 2004 I wrote a policy note on strategies for eco-efficient innovation, which fed into the Council's conclusions. For the Dutch government I developed the steering model of transition management, together with Jan Rotmans. This model is currently used by the Dutch government who adopted our views on transition management for sustainability.

Current activities

I am currently leading a 5-year research project on sustainable mobility. In this project co-evolution processes are being studied and issues of power, learning and governance.

A recent project is “Measuring eco-innovation” (MEI ) for the European Commission which started in Febr 2007 and ended in 2008. The project offered a conceptual clarification of eco-innovation (developing a typology) based on an understanding of innovation dynamics. It identifuied and discussed the main methodological challenges in developing indicators and statistics on eco-innovation and how these may be overcome. The project is being done by eco-innovation experts from various institutes (MERIT, ZEW, ICL, Riso and LEIA) together with Eurostat, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Joint Research Center of the European Commission. http://www.merit.unu.edu/MEI

Together with Fritz Hinterberger of SERI and Bio Schmidt-Bleek of the Factor 10 institute, I am leading the international network Governance for Sustainable Development: www.gosd.net

Personal information

Date of birth:	January 4, 1961
Place of birth:	Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Nationality:	Dutch
Telephone:	+31 43 3884405 (work) +31 6 11017133 (mobile)
Fax:	+31 43 3884499
Email:	r.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl, and rene.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Website:	http://kemp.unu-merit.nl

Teaching experience

1991–2000	2nd year course Milieuschaarste (environmental economics) at interdisciplinary study Milieugezondheidkunde of UM ( University of Maastricht ).
2000- 2005	3 rd year course Technology and sustainable development at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of UM.
2001	PhD seminar at BI in Norway
2002	PhD seminar at Helsinki Technical University in Finland
2007-	PhD module Environment and sustainable development

Supervision

Co-promotor of John Adeoti, Viki Sonntag, Andreas Reinstaller, Derk Loorbach who got their PhD in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007.
Supervisor of PhD students Bilal Mirza, Marc Dijk, Veronique Vasseur, Flor Avelino and Suzanne van den Bosch, and PhD advisor of Rosie Bosworth and Stefano Sirilli.
Supervisor of Marie Curie fellows Thomas Rüdiger and Heracles Polatidis.
Supervisor of 15 graduation theses at UM and 3 ESST master theses.
External examiner of 10 PhD theses.

Work history

1987 – 1988	Researcher at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of UM.
1987 – 1998	Researcher at MERIT
1997 – 1998	Postdoc researcher at University of Twente
1997	Visiting fellow at IPTS in Sevilla (Spain)
1998 – 2010	Senior research fellow at MERIT
2001	Scientific director of STEP in Oslo (Norway) (half time)
2002	Visiting researcher at Harvard ( US ) and Foscari University in Venice (Italy)
2002 – 2005	Senior Advisor of TNO-STB (NL) (one day a week)
2005 – 2010 2006 – 2009	Senior researcher at ICIS (International Center of Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development) (half time) http://www.icis.unimaas.nl/ Senior researcher at DRIFT (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions), Erasmus University Rotterdam (for 0.4, later 0.2) http://www.drift.eur.nl/home/about.html
2006	Visiting researcher at SPRU (UK)
2007 2010 --	Visiting researcher at CIRUS (Switzerland) Professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development, ICIS, Faculty of Humanities and Science (half time) and professorial fellow UNU-MERIT (half time) in Maastricht

Committees and editorial work

Member of the ETAN working group "Responding to the challenge of global climate change through RTD policy" of DG XII and the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) (in 1998)
Member of the programme committee of the interdisciplinary Energy research programme of the Dutch research council NWO (since 2003)
Member of the commissioning panel of ESRC Sustainable Technologies Programme (UK) (2003-2004)
Editor of the Springer book series "Sustainability and Innovation" (since 2004)
Co-organiser of the international conference "Innovation, Sustainability and Policy" which took place May 23-25, 2004, in Seeon, Germany. I also co-organised two sessions at the IHDP conference in Bonn, 10-14 Oct, 2005.
Member of scientific board of RIDE, Chalmers University in Gothenburg http://www.chalmers.se/tme/EN/centers/ride (as of Nov 2006).
Member of scientific board ARTEC, University of Bremen, Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit http://www.artec.uni-bremen.de/profil/index.php (as of Dec 2007)
Advisory editor of Research Policy (as of Dec 2006).
Editor of special issue on clean technology diffusion of The International Journal of Cleaner Production, together with Carlos Montalvo
Editor of special issue of on Eco-innovation dynamics for Industry & Innovation, together with Vanessa Oltra

Projects since 1996

1996 — 1997	Contributor to SOAR project for Batelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Washington D.C. about climate change and human choice. The project is a social science assessment of the climate change problem, complementing IPCC work. In this project, Arie Rip and I gave a state-of-the-art assessment of the social study of technology in relation to climate change. The publication received extensive academic praise.
1996 — 1998	Project leader (together with Johan Schot) of the Strategic Niche Management project on experiments with more sustainable transport technologies for the Environment and Climate Programme of DGXII of the EU together with the University of Twente, the University of Gothenberg, the Open University in the UK, EAWAG in Switzerland, reson in Germany and the IPTS in Seville. This project ended in Oct 1998. We organized a conference in June 1998 in Seville and wrote a book on the basis of the project results.
	Researcher in IDEA project, together with STEP in Oslo , SPRU in the UK , and some other institutes on indicators for Science and Technology Policy for DG XII of the EU. In the project, I was responsible for the development of indicators for environmental innovation. This project ended in 1998.
1998 — 2000	Project leader and coordinator of the international research project Technology and Environmental Policy (TEP) for the Environment and Climate programme of the EU (DGXII) on the implementation and technological impact of EU environmental directives and national policies in different EU Member States. The Directives being studied are: the Air Framework Directive (84/360), the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271), and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (94/62). The project examines how differences in national regulatory regimes affect technology choices and offers an assessment of the adopted solutions. The TEP project is a joint project of MERIT, SPRU (UK), ECOLOGIC (FRG), SMASH + CIRED (F), SBE ( Finland ), and IPTS (ES). The project started in March 1998 and ended in October 2000. Two books came out of this project.
	Project leader of research project "Technological Regime Shifts to Environmental Sustainability". This project of MERIT and the UT is part of a larger project called "Environmental Policy, Economic Restructuring and Endogenous Technology: A Dynamic Policy Analysis" (PRET) which analyses the effects of environmental policy in the Netherlands , taking into account endogenous technical change and structural change in the Dutch economy until 2020. The project is a 5 year project involving 5 universities ( Tilburg , Amsterdam , Rotterdam , Enschede and Maastricht ). The project was funded through the "Environment and Economy" research programme of the Dutch scientific research council (NWO)
1998	Member of the European Technology Assessment Network (ETAN) working group "Responding to the challenge of global climate change through RTD policy" of DG XII and the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) and member of expert group of the research programme "Innovation and Regulation" of IPTS-DG III.
	Project leader of study on methodological aspects of analysing the relationship between environmental regulation and innovation, an umbrella project for research programme "Impact of EU Regulation on Innovation of European Industry" of IPTS-DG III. This project started in Oct 1998 and ended in 2000.
1998-2001	Researcher in MATRIC project about the management of technology responses to the climate change challenge funded by the Dutch national research programme on climate change (NOP). MATRIC was a 3 year collaborative project of the University of Twente and MERIT that started in June 1998.
	Researcher in IMPRESS project which analyses the impact of clean production on employment in Europe . It is a 2 year project of MERIT, ZEW (coordinator), PREST (UK), FEEM ( Italy ) and IESSR (CH) which started in Nov 1998.
2000	Invited speaker at the OECD workshop on Innovation and the Environment 19 June 2000 in Paris where I presented the paper Technology and Environmental Policy—Innovation effects of past policies and suggestions for improvement”.
	Principal researcher of project Transitions and transtion management for the fourth Dutch national environmental policy plan (NMP-4) Een wereld en een wil . The project offers a discussion of societal transitions and develops a model of transition management: consisting of deliberate action to initiate and sustain a transition towards sustainable energy technology in the liberalised energy market. The approach of transition management developed by me and Jan Rotmans was adopted by Dutch policy makers who uses it as the model for managing transitions to sustainable energy, natural resource use, agriculture and transport. Partner: ICIS (NL)
	Researcher in pathways project, analyzing sustainable industrial transformations: co-optimising competitiveness, employment and environment. A one-year project for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment co-ordinated by Nicholas Ashford of MIT. Partners: MIT (US, coordinator), EUR (NL), TNO (NL)
2000 –	Coordinator of graducate course “Technology and Sustainable Development” at the faculty of Economics of Maastricht University.
2001	Evaluator of EET programme together with Willems and van den Wildenberg and Globus.
2001–2004	Project leader of project Transitions : what drives them and how are they managed? funded by NWO, the Dutch Council for Scientific Research. The project analyses transitions and the possibilities for managing the waste transition. It is a two-year collaborative project of the University of Maastricht (Kemp, Rotmans, Loorbach and Parto) and the University of Eindhoven (Verspagen, Schot, Verbong and Geels). The project started in 2002 and ended in 2004.
	Contributor to Sustime project on time-critical aspects of environmental innovation for BMBF in Germany , led by Stefan Zundel (FH). Partners: FH, IOW and TUB (FRG)
2002 – 2004	Core member of Blueprint , a STRATA network project for the European Commission, exa mining the possibilities for achieving greater coherence in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy. I organised the workshop on environmental innovation systems in Brussels , 23-24 Jan, 2002.
2002	Evaluator of GAVE programme (about climate-neutral fuels) together with ICIS.
2002	Visiting researcher at Foscari University in Venice (April-May)and visiting researcher at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School , Harvard University (Sept-Oct).
	Member of commissioning panel of ESRC Sustainable Technologies Programme (UK)
2003 –	Member of programme committee of Energy research programme of NWO (NL)
2003—2004	Researcher in PUBLIN project for the European Commission about innovation in the public sector. The aim of the study is to get a better understanding of behavioural changes, learning processes and the implementation of new or improved technologies in public organisations. Partners: NIFU STEP (NO), University of Haifa (IL), VINNOVA ( Sweden ), University of Manchester , Metropolitan University of Manchester ( UK ), Comenius University (SK), Universidad de Alcalá (ES), University College Cork (IRL), The Mykolas Romeris University (LT).
2003 – 2005	Project leader of Waste Management project. A 2-year study of institutional change in the waste management transition in the 1970-2000 period. One of the goals was to learn how the transition in waste management was managed by authorities through various waste acts in response to problems. The project was funded by the Dutch Scientific Research Council (NWO). Partner: ICIS (NL)
2002 – 2004	Researcher in Clean Technology Diffusion project – an ESTO project funded by the European Commission through IPTS, to support the development of the EU Action Plan to promote the diffusion of clean technologies in Europe.Partners: TNO (coordinator), ISI (FRG), REC (H), IPTS (ES), NTUA-E 3 Lab (G), ITA and EFA (A)
2004	Principal author of Strategies for eco-efficient innovation funded by the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (VROM) in the NL for the Environment Council (=meeting of EU environment ministers) held in July 2004 under the Dutch presidency. Partners: TNO (NL) and Risø (DK). Results of the project fed into the Council's conclusions on environment as an economic opportunity (“Clean, Clever and Competitive”).
2005	Co-author of Innovation policy for the environment project for the Environmental Outlook of the Netherlands .
2005 – 2009	Project leader of Sustainable Mobility project for KSI programme. This project assesses alternative forms of transport and transport policies (using participatory integrated assessment) and studies diffusion processes of new innovations within a broader co-evolution analysis. The role of power and leadership is studied in 5 transition projects in the Netherlands. The project combines desk research with action research and participatory assessment using transition theory. I am the project leader of this 5 year study, which is a joint project of ICIS in Maastricht and DRIFT in Rotterdam.

Selected publications

Books

Kemp, R. (1997), Environmental Policy and Technical Change. A Comparison of the Technological Impact of Policy Instruments, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (Reviews).

Hoogma, R., R. Kemp, J. Schot and B. Truffer (2002), Experimenting for Sustainable Transport. The Approach of Strategic Niche Management , EF& N Spon , London .

Kemp, R. (ed.) (2002) Treatment of a EU Directive . Compliance with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in Germany , Spain , England and Wales and the Netherlands , Books on Demand (BoD).

Kahlenborn, W., and R. Kemp (eds.) (2002) A Directive Made to Fit. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive in Germany, France and Finland , Books on Demand (BoD).

J-P. Voss, D. Bauknecht and R. Kemp (eds .) (2006) Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham .

Articles and book chapters

Kemp, René, and Luc Soete (1992), ‘The Greening of Technological Progress: An Evolutionary Perspective', Futures 24(5): 437-457.

Kemp, René, Xander Olsthoorn, Frans Oosterhuis and Harmen Verbruggen (1992), ‘Supply and Demand Factors of Cleaner Technologies: Some Empirical Evidence', Environmental and Resource Economics 2(6): 615-634.

Kemp, René (1994), ‘Technology and the Transition to Environmental Sustainability. The Problem of Technological Regime Shifts', Futures 26(10): 1023-46.

Kemp, René (1998), ‘The Diffusion of Biological Waste-Water Treatment Plants in the Dutch Food and Beverage Industry' Environmental and Resource Economics, 12: 113-136.

Kemp, René, Johan Schot and Remco Hoogma (1998), ‘Regime Shifts to Sustainability through Processes of Niche Formation. The Approach of Strategic Niche Management', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 10(2): 175-195.

Rip, Arie, and René Kemp (1998) ‘Technological Change’, in Steve Rayner and Liz Malone (eds.) Human Choice and Climate Change, Vol 2 Resources and Technology, Batelle Press, Washington D.C., 327-399.

Van de Ende, Jan, and René Kemp (1999), ‘Technological Transformations in History: How the Computer Regime Grew out of Existing Computing Regimes', Research Policy , 28: 833-851.

Kemp, René (2000), Technology and Environmental Policy—Innovation effects of past policies and suggestions for improvement, paper for OECD workshop on Innovation and Environment, 19 June 2000, Paris.

Geels, Frank, en René Kemp (2000), Transities vanuit sociotechnisch perspectief , rapport voor de studie “Transities en Transitiemanagement” van ICIS en MERIT in opdracht van VROM tbv van NMP-4, Okt 2000, UT, Enschede en MERIT, Maastricht.

Kemp, René (2001), ‘Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) in Germany , The Netherlands , Spain , England and Wales . The Tangible Results', European Environment 11(5): 250-264.

Rotmans, Jan, René Kemp, and Marjolein van Asselt (2001) ‘More Evolution than Revolution. Transition Management in Public Policy', Foresight 3(1): 15-31. .(LINK)

Kemp, René, Arie Rip and Johan Schot (2001), ‘Constructing Transition Paths through the Management of Niches', in Raghu Garud and Peter Karnøe (eds.) Path Dependence and Creation , Lawrence Erlbaum: Mahwah NJ and London, 269-299.

Kemp, René (2002) Environmental Protection through Technological Regime Shifts, in Andy Jamison & Harald Rohracher (eds.): Technology Studies and Sustainable Development . Profil Verlag, Munich , 95-126.

Kemp, René (2002) An Integrated Policy for the Environment, in Patries Boekholt (ed.), Innovation Policy and Sustainable Development. Can Public Incentives make a Difference ?, IWT, Brussels , 37-54.

Polatidis, H, Haralambopoulos, D, Kemp, R and Rothman, D. (2003), Creating an energy system that we want but don't know yet, using integrated assessment, transition management and multi-criteria analysis, Integrated Assessment 4, 205-213.

Elzen, Boelie, Remco Hoogma and René Kemp (2003) Managing the Transition to Sustainable Transport through Strategic Niche Management, in Dan Sperling and Ken Kurani (eds.) Transportation, Energy and Environmental Policy. Managing Transitions VIII Biennial Asilomar Conference, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies , Washington DC , 175-203.

Kemp, René, and Jan Rotmans (2004) Managing the Transition to Sustainable Mobility, in Boelie Elzen, Frank Geels and Ken Green (eds.). System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy , Edgar Elgar, Cheltenham , 137-167.

Arundel, Anthony, René Kemp, and Saeed Parto (2004), Indicators for Environmental Innovation: What and How to Measure, in International Handbook on Environment and Technology Management , edited by David Annandale, John Phillimore and Dora Marinova, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 324-339. .

Foxon, Tim, and René Kemp (2004) ‘Innovation impacts of environmental policies', in International Handbook on Environment and Technology Management, edited by David Annandale, John Phillimore and Dora Marinova, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 119-139.

Kemp, R., Parto, S., Gibson, R.B.,(2005) ' Governance for sustainable development: moving from theory to practice', International Journal of Sustainable Development , Vol 8 (Nos 1/2): 13-30.

Kemp, R., and D. Loorbach (2005) ‘Dutch Policies to Manage the transition to Sustainable Energy ', in Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik 4 Innovationen und Nachhaltigkeit, MetropolisVerlag, Marburg, 123-150.

Voss, J-P., and R. Kemp, (2005) ‘ Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development. Incorporating Feedback in Social Problem-Solving ', paper for ESEE conference, June 14-17, 2005, Lisbon.

Voss, J-P., R. Kemp, and D. Bauknecht (2006) ‘Reflexive Governance: A View on the Emerging Path', in J-P. Voss, D. Bauknecht and R. Kemp (eds.) Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 419-437.

Voss, J-P. and R. Kemp (2006) ‘Sustainability and Reflexive Governance: Introduction', in J-P. Voss, D. Bauknecht and R. Kemp (eds.) Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 3-27.

Kemp, R. and D. Loorbach (2006) ‘Transition Management: A Reflexive Governance Approach', in J-P. Voss, D. Bauknecht and R. Kemp (eds.) Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 103-130.

Geels, F.W., and R. Kemp (2006) ‘Transitions, Transformations and Reproduction. Dynamics in Socio-technical Ssytems', in Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy, edited by M. McKelvey and M. Holmen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 227-256.

Kemp, R. and S. van den Bosch (2006) Transitie-experimenten. Praktijkexperimenten met de potentie om bij te dragen aan transities, Publication KCT.

van den Bergh, J., and R. Kemp (2006) Economics and Transitions. Lessons from Economic Sub-Disciplines, paper commissioned by KSI, in J. van den Bergh and F. Bruinsma (eds.) (2008) Managing the transition towards renewable energy sources: Theory and practice from local, regional and macro perspectives, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 81-129.

Kemp, R. and P. Martens (2007) Sustainable Development: how to manage something that is subjective and that never can be reached? Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy , Fall 2007, 3(2) http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol3iss2/0703-007.kemp.html

Rotmans, J., D. Loorbach and R. Kemp (2007) Transition Management: Its origin, evolution and critique, paper for Workshop on “Politics and governance in sustainable socio-technical transitions', 19-21 September 2007, Schloss Blankensee, Berlin, Germany.

Kemp, R., D. Loorbach and J. Rotmans (2007) Assessing the Dutch energy transition policy: how does it deal with dilemmas of managing transitions? Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (special issue on “Governance for Sustainable Development Steering in contexts of ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed control), Vol. 9, Nos. 3-4, 315–331.

Parto, S., D. Loorbach, A. Lansink and R. Kemp (2007) Transitions and Institutional Change: The Case of the Dutch Waste Subsystem, in S. Parto and B. Herbert-Copley (eds.) Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable Solutions , United Nations University Press, 233-257.

Arundel, Anthony, René Kemp, and Saeed Parto (2007), Indicators for Environmental Innovation: What and How to Measure, in International Handbook on Environment and Technology Management (ETM) , edited by Dora Marinova, David Annandale and John Phillimore, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 324-339.

Foxon, Tim, and René Kemp (2007), Innovation impacts of environmental policies, in International Handbook on Environment and Technology Management (ETM), edited by Dora Marinova, David Annandale and John Phillimore, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 119-139.

Kemp, R. (2007) Integrating environmental and innovation policies, in S. Parto and B. Herbert-Copley (eds.) Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable Solutions , United Nations University Press, 258-296.

Kemp, R., D. Loorbach and J. Rotmans (2007) Transition management as a model for managing processes of co-evolution for sustainable development, The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology (special issue on (co)-evolutionary approach to sustainable development) 14: 78-91.

Kemp, R., and S. Zundel (2007) ‘Environmental Innovation Policy. Is steering innovation processes possible?’, in M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (ed.) Innovations towards sustainability. Conditions and Consequences, Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, 25-46.

Kemp, R. (2007) ‘An Example of a “Managed Transition”: The Transformation of the Waste Management Subsystem in the Netherlands’, in M. Lehmann-Waffenschmidt (ed.) Innovations towards sustainability. Conditions and Consequences, Physica Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, 87-94.

Geels, F.W., and R. Kemp (2007) ‘Dynamics in socio-technical systems: Typology of change processes and contrasting case studies', Technology in Society , 29(4), 441-455.

Montalvo, C. and R. Kemp (2008) Editorial to special issue on: Cleaner technology diffusion - case studies, modeling and policy The International Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 Supplement 1: S7-S13.

Kemp, R. and M. Volpi (2008) The diffusion of clean technologies: A review with suggestions for future diffusion analysis, T he International Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 Supplement 1: S14-S21.

Barreto, L. and R. Kemp (2008) Inclusion of Technology Diffusion in Energy-systems Models: Some Gaps and Needs, The International Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 Supplement 1: S95-S101.

Taanman, M., Groot, A. de, Kemp, R. and Verspagen, B. (2006) Diffusion paths for Micro Cogeneration Using Hydrogen in the Netherlands, The International Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 Supplement 1: S124-S132.

van den Bergh, J., and R. Kemp (2008) Transition lessons from economics, in J. van den Bergh and F. Bruinsma (eds.) Managing the transition towards renewable energy sources: Theory and practice from local, regional and macro perspectives , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 81-129 .

Loorbach, D., and R. Kemp (2008) Transition management for the Dutch energy transition: multilevel governance aspects, in J. van den Bergh and F. Bruinsma (eds.) Managing the transition towards renewable energy sources: Theory and practice from local, regional and macro perspectives , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 243-264.

Faber, A., R. Kemp and G. van der Veen (2008) Innovation policy for the environment in the Netherlands and EU, in C. Nauwelaers, and R. Wintjes, Innovation policy in Europe , Edward Elgar, Chelthenham.

Kemp, R., and S. Pontoglio (2007) The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments—A typical case of the blind men and the elephant, p aper for DIME WP 2.5 Workshop on Empirical Analyses of Environmental Innovations, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, January, 17th-18th, 2008

Rotmans, J., and R. Kemp (2008) Detour Ahead. A response to Shove and Walker about the perilous road of transition management, Environment and Planning A, 40: 1006-1014.

Van Zeijl-Rozema, R. Cörvers, R. Kemp and P. Martens (2008) "Governance for sustainable development: a framework", Sustainable Development 16(6): 410-421.

Kemp, R. (2008) ‘Environmental Protection through Technological Regime Shifts’, in J. Martinez-Alier and I. Røpke (eds.) Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 455 – 486.

Kemp, R., and J. Rotmans (2008) ‘Managing the Transition to Sustainable Mobility’, in J. Martinez-Alier and I. Røpke (eds.) Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 487- 517.

Nill, J. and R. Kemp (2009) Evolutionary Approaches for Sustainable Innovation policies: From niche to paradigm?, Research Policy, 38(4): 668-680.

Oltra, V., R. Kemp and F. de Vries (2009) Patents as a measure for eco-innovation, forthcoming in International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management.

Dijk, M., P. Valkering and R. Kemp (2009) Incorporating social context in an innovation diffusion model with an application to cleaner vehicles, submitted to Journal of Evolutionary Economics (special issue on eco-innovation).

Kemp, R., and J. Grin (2009) Over opschaling en verankering, rapport voor CCT, forthcoming.

Rotmans, J., Loorbach, D., and R. Kemp (2008) Complexity and Transition Management, chapter for book Complexity and the Planning of the Physical Environment, edited by G. de Roo, J. Hiller and J. van Wezemael.

Downloads

Presentations

Managing sustainability transitions. Dutch energy policy , presentation at SDRN meeting in London, sept 2004

Goal-oriented modulation as a model for dealing with problems of sustainable development , presentation at GOSD workshop in Berlin, febr 2006
Sustainability. A long-term journey, presentation at ESEE conference in Lisbon, 2005.
Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development. Presentation at ISDRC TCSR Symposium June 6-8, 2005 in Helsinki Special session on Transdisciplinary Case Study Research for Sustainable Development.
Beyond Incrementalism and planning. The Dutch model of transition management, presentation at ITAS, 13 Nov 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Netherlands versus the UK. A comparison of sustainable energy policy, presentation at SPRU, Falmer (UK), May 2006.
Perfecting innovation policy.The example of the Netherlands, presentation at CIRUS, Duebendorf (CH) April 2007.
The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments -- a typical case of the blind men and the elephant, presentation at DIME workshop, 17-18 Jan 2008, Karlrsuhe, Germany.
Reflexive governance for sustainable development. The model of transition management, presentation for school of governance, 13 March, 2008
From end-of-pipe to system innovation, presentation at DRUID summer conference, June 17-19, 2009, Copenhagen

Papers for download

Kemp, René, Johan Schot and Remco Hoogma (1998) ‘Regime Shifts to Sustainability through Processes of Niche Formation. The Approach of Strategic Niche Management’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 10(2): 175-195.

Kemp, René (2000), Technology and Environmental Policy—Innovation effects of past policies and suggestions for improvement”, paper for OECD workshop on Innovation and Environment, 19 June 2000, Paris.

Voss, J-P., and R. Kemp, (2005) ‘ Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development. Incorporating Feedback in Social Problem-Solving ', paper for ESEE conference, June 14-17, 2005, Lisbon.

van den Bergh, J., and R. Kemp (2006) Economics and Transitions. Lessons from Economic Sub-Disciplines, paper commissioned by KSI.

Avelino, F., and R. Kemp (2008) Newspeak or Paradigm Shift? Interpreting Dutch Transition Discourse on Sustainable Mobility, paper submitted to Critical Policy analysis.

Kemp, R., Measuring eco-innovation , Policy brief UNU-MERIT, http://www.unu.edu/publications/briefs/policy-briefs/2008/rb01-08.pdf

Kemp, R., Measuring eco-innovation, Our World2.0, http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/measuring-eco-innovation/

Nill, J. and R. Kemp (2009) 'Evolutionary Approaches for Sustainable Innovation policies: From niche to paradigm?', Research Policy, 38(4): 668-680.

Arundel, A., and R. Kemp, (2009) Measuring eco-innovation, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2009-017.

Kemp, R. (2009) Eco-innovation and transitions, Paper for journal Economia delle fonti di energia e dell'ambiente (Energy and Environment Economics and Policy) Special Issue on Heterodox Environmental Economics.

Avelino, F., N. Bressers and R. Kemp (2009) Transition Management and Sustainable Mobility Policy: the Case of the Netherlands, Chapter for NECTAR-book edited by Harry Geerlings.

Kemp, R. (2009) From end-of-pipe to system innovation, paper for DRUID Summer Conference, June 17-19, 2009, Copenhagen (to be published in Economia politica. Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics

Bilal, M., and Kemp, R. (2009) Why rural rich remain energy poor, UNU-MERIT working paper series 2009-024 (submitted to International Journal of Energy)

Kemp, R., and J. Rotmans (2009) Transitioning Policy: Co-production of a new strategic framework for energy innovation policy in the Netherlands, forthcoming in Policy Sciences.

Kemp, R., Avelino, F., and Bressers N. (2009) Transition Management as a Model for Sustainable Mobility, Paper for Trasporti Europei Special Issue: "New frontiers of transport research”

Kemp, R. (2009) The Dutch Energy Transition Approach, paper for 2nd International Wuppertal Colloquium on „Sustainable Growth, Resource Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Policy – Recent Findings, New Approaches for Strategies and Policies” September 10 – 12, 2009 at the University of Wuppertal, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics.

Contact details

René Kemp
UNU-MERIT
Keizer Karelplein 19
6211 TC MAASTRICHT
The Netherlands
Tel +31 43 3884405 /400
Fax: 31 43 3884499
r.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl
rene.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl