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Means have an awkward habit of becoming ends

You see things, not as they are, but as you are. -- Eric Butterworth

When reductionism becomes the only way of thinking, we reduce too much – Julian Baggini

Wat deze wereld nodig heeft is een andere wereld – Kamagurka

Present position

I am Professorial fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute (formerly ICIS), Maastricht University.

On Nov 12, 2010 I held my inaugural speech Innovatie en Duurzame Ontwikkeling (in Dutch)

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Citation indices (Google scholar) as of March 2023

	All	Since 2018
Citations	38991	16576
h-index	79	59
i10-index	199	139

Citations to my articles

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Expertise

I am an innovation researcher with a background in econometrics and an interest in policy, history, society, theory and research methodology. As a multidisciplinary researcher I have published on eco-innovation, sustainability transitions and transformative social innovation in a wide range of disciplinary and multidisciplinary journals: innovation journals, environmental and ecological economics journals, policy journals, transport journals, and sustainable development journals. I am editor of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transformations, Sustainability Science and an advisory editor of Research Policy (the top-tier journals on innovation and sustainability). As a professor of innovation and sustainable development I try to do socially relevant research and offer policy advice to create a better world (see consultation for policy).

I wrote seminal articles and two books on technological regime shifts, strategic niche management, transition management and reflexive governance for sustainable development. To me innovation is not a simple solution but comes with risks, imperfections and side-effects that have to be addressed.

In the last 8 years, I developed a great interest in a regenerative economy and the humanisation of the economy through social innovation. There is a video for those interested in my views and an interview.

Education

MSc in Econometrics from University of Tilburg (distinction) in 1987
PhD in Economics from Maastricht University in 1995

Books

How I view the world

I am viewing the world from an evolutionary perspective, with an important role for co-evolution. Modes of production and consumption are co-evolving with changing beliefs, possibilities, dispositions and institutions. People are part of dynamics and carriers of practices. They are not free to be otherwise. Socio-technical evolution resembles natural evolution in having similar building blocks (variation, selection and retention) but there are also important differences. Variation is not blind, but guided by ideas and interests. Selection depends on prices, regulations and cultural values and views (including ideas of progress). If prices do not speak the environmental truth, selection favours environmentally bad products and processes.

I am a methodological pluralist, doing problem-based research. In my view all methods have a role to play and all theories may throw light on the most important and difficult thing of science which is uncovering causal relations, generative processes and ways to make the world more fair and just.

According to Sewell, social scientists have overemphasized their methodology and left their ontology unspecified. Sewell’s ontological view is that the world is contingent rather than necessary and that the “semiotic” and “structural” should be understood as parts of a whole. This fits with an evolutionary perspective (and critical realism) that the world could have been different. My own ontological view is that

social reality is structured and stratified
reality encompasses a not directly observable deep dimension – the level of generative mechanisms
people are part and parcel of broader processes of change (marketisation, globalisation, localisation); interactions with others and experiences affect their preferences
people are evaluative human beings with normative views and immaterial needs
there is path dependency - but also path creation
there is inequality and exploitation at any time and place (science and technology is likely to reproduce those)
sustainable development requires political action and cultural change, besides the coordination of resources.

As a critical methodological pluralist, I am mindful of limits of knowing. All methods and theoretical perspectives have value, but each of them comes with limitations which are best acknowledged and corrected for. Unfortunately, scientists too often fall victim to their own assumptions and constraints of their own methods. As Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann quipped: “A scientist would rather use someone else’s toothbrush than another scientist’s terminology”.

I do not belong to those who bash economics (I am educated as one), but there are some problems with it. Land and nature are viewed as resources for use, not as commons to be managed. The interdependencies of people on nature and others for their well-being and the need for collective responsibilities are not examined in those terms. To be selfish is the working assumption. The interaction between economy and society is studied as an issue of transactions, neglecting the impacts of marketisation and surveillance on people’s identities, aspirations and anxieties. Psychological needs of people for autonomy, belonging (relatedness) and doing things that are meaningful (instead of mindless) are not considered. Economics does not have a good understanding of needs. The theory of revealed preferences fails to acknowledge that needs are not autonomous but rely on comparison with others and are open to exploitation. Whether people flourish and whether places and organisations help people to flourish is ill-considered.

A good human life involves more than pleasure. "Whether a person sees moneymaking as an end in itself or merely as a means and whether she primarily values pleasure or personal excellence are defining of her vision of the good human life. Our positions on these two issues help set the framework within which we make our important life decisions. They also help set the framework within which we debate public policy issues, including environmental ones, in our role as citizens". Philip Cafaro in Journal of Social Philosophy

In Why things matter to us, Andrew Sayer writes “we are sentient, evaluative beings: we don’t just think and interact but evaluate things, including the past and future (....). The most important questions people tend to face in their everyday lives are normative ones of what is good and bad about what is happening, including how others [including government] are treating them and of how to act, and what to do for the best

A hopeful message is: "Time turns obstacles into variables" - Richard Rose. This is not a call for inaction in the form of waiting, but a call for action, in an open-minded, not self-righteous way.

Public Engagement and expert activities

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 and Marjolein van Asselt. This model was used by the Dutch government who adopted our views on transition management as an approach for innovation policy. The model received a lot of attention, within the field of transition studies and beyond. An excellent discussion of strengths and weaknesses of TM is provided by James Meadowcroft.

During 2013 and 2014 I was member of the Limburg Chamber of Commerce platform Innovation, Sustainability and Energy. For a Urban Europe project on urban experimentation, I regularly interacted with people from Maastricht-Lab. In 2015, in Hobart (Australia) I gave a Public lecture Creating Change in a State of Political Gridlock. I also appeared on radio and contributed a contribution about transition management to the Mercury newspaper of Tasmania. In 2017, I gave a Studium Generale (SG) lecture in Wageningen on the topic of “Rethinking economic relations: The humanization of the economy through social innovation”. In 2019 I gave a talk in Bonn on Innovation for SD as a topic for research and society and a lecture on what policy makers can do to promote green innovation in Trivandrum, Kerala (India). In Tartu (Estonia) I gave a public lecture on transformative social innovation and participated in a workshop on energy transitions as a keynote speaker and in Den Haag I gave a Masterclass on Managing Transitions (with Herman Vollebergh) https://www.tudelft.nl/infrastructures/onderwijs/samenwerking-ministerie-ienw/masterclasses/masterclass-13-juni-2019/verslag-13-juni-2019/

In 2020, I was interviewed about multiple value creation during the design research and innovation festival on water in the Effenaar in Eindhoven and participated in the online masterclass "Integratie en Mee-koppelen. With Joost van Haaften of the Rietveld Academie I wrote a blog on a European Bauhaus initiative for inserting design and citizenship in European energy transition processes in a time of Corona– to build back something better. At a meeting of Paludiculture experts in Greifswald (D) talked about guided evolution and multiple value creation.

In 2021 I participated in the knowledge dialogue Positive Energy Districts/Positive Energy Neighbourhoods and for the University of Naples "Federico II" , I did a MOOC on the multilevel perspective and for the Waterstof Coalitie Limburg I drafted a plan for a KennisAcademie Waterstof (together with Peter Ramaekers).

A video in which I explain the TransB project about multiple value creation can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ejf68notzo

For the MORSE initiative, I provided a talk on problem-based learning in Maastricht on 30 Jan 2023.

Recent activities

At the moment I am working on three projects: TransB, SYSCHEMIQ and EnergyPROSPECTS.

TransB is a 4-year project of NWO with the Centre of Urban Studies of the University of Amsterdam, KWR and water companies and the municipalities of Amsterdam and Kerkrade in the Netherlands. The project uses design thinking to co-create options based on multi-functional thinking in four settings. The project will generate lessons about the recursive aspects of transitions and behaviour. Besides evaluating the multi-actor processes around the socio-technical options created, we will appraise (new and old) institutional arrangements and governance systems from the point of view of fostering multiple transitions (in water management, carbon neutrality, climate adaptation,circularity and citizen participation).

SYSCHEMIQ is a EU-funded project on plastic packaging waste (PPW) recycling. it brings together parties in this new circular value chain and identifies where opportunities lie, where obstacles need to be overcome, and how the partners can better coordinate their activities. Details about the project (and my role in it) can be found here.

EnergyPROSPECTS is a EU-project on energy citizenship. Energy citizenship is a model of active and involved consumer that is not just a consumer, but also a shaper of energy use (via energy communities, citizenship involvement in Virtual Power Plants, energy poverty initiatives, sustainable consumption and sufficiency projects, energy justice movements, prosumer initiatives and renewable energy cooperatives). The project will examine the potential contribution of different forms of energy citizenship to furthering the goals of the Energy Union and the Green Deal.

For the VerDuS programme (which ended in 2020), I investigated (with Joop de Kraker from MSI and OU) lessons from various projects in which sustainability is an important aim. Our findings are published as a synthesis report.

With Mark Sanders, I lead the SBE-UM spearhead initiative MORSE about resilience, responsiblity and sustainability. https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/sbe-launches-three-spearhead-initiatives-tackle-sustainable-development-goals#MORSE

From 2014 to 2019 I worked on the following projects: TRANSIT, SINCERE, green.eu, Energy efficiency of households in cities, Smarterlabs and ENERGISE.

TRANSIT is an EU research project to develop a theory of transformative social innovation which is about empowerment and societal change. It ran for four years, from January 2014 until December 2017. http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/

In the SINCERE project, researchers from Europe and China examined historical patterns between resource indicators, trade and macro-economic performance, developed new economic models for explaining resource-use and examine the role of policy in RE and CE patterns. Another important aim was to strengthen collaboration between European and Chinese researchers. Project partners are the Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR) of UCL in the UK, the Institute for Applied Ecology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, Wuppertal University and the Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI in Germany, and ParisMinesTech in France. photo of consortium

Green.eu is a network of European and international researchers, policy makers and stakeholders active in the fields of eco-innovation, green economy, and sustainable development. The central goals of the project were to improve the understanding and scientific assessment of concepts related to eco-innovations, sustainable transformation and the green economy and to further develop these concepts. It is based on the idea that achieving a better world through transformative changes requires connections to be made between researchers, businesses, public officials, society organizations, politicians, funders, knowledge brokers, educators, students, writers, journalists, artists, and opinion formers. photo of symposium Nov 2015 photo of consortium

Smarterlabs is an Urban Europe project led by ICIS. The project used a Smart City Living Lab approach to effectively deal with two common problems for smart transport technologies: (1) unforeseen barriers to large-scale implementation, and (2) exclusion of social groups not matching the required ‘smart citizen’ profile. The SmarterLabs project developed and tested possibilities for smart mobility trhough Living Lab experiments in four cities: Bellinzona, Brussels, Graz and Maastricht. https://smarterlabs.uni-graz.at/en/

The project “Energy Efficiency of Households in Cities: A Multi-method Analysis” is a collaboration between Maastricht University (ICIS) and Chinese Academy of Science (CEEP). The project is part of Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) – Smart Energy in Smart Cities, a collaborative research programme by China and the Netherlands with the aim to promote long-term collaboration among scientists from both countries. photo of research team

ENERGISE is an innovative pan-European research initiative to achieve a greater scientific understanding of the social and cultural influences on energy consumption. Funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme for three years (2016-2019), ENERGISE developed, tested and assessed options for a bottom-up transformation of energy use in households and communities across Europe.

For the European Environment Agency, I co-authored a chapter on socio-economic transformations. A presentation about the chapter can be found here

Three older projects I worked on are EmInInn, POLFREE, Urb@Exp and Green Technology and Green Industry in Africa.

EmInInn stands for Environmental Macro Indicators of Innovation. Funded by the EU, EMInInn assesses macro-environmental impacts of eco-innovation. http://www.emininn.eu/

POLFREE is a 4 year study into the reasons for resource inefficiency in Europe and how this may be overcome through policy. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/polfree

URB@Exp is a joint research project of researchers, policymakers and civil society actors from Austria, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. The project started in 2014 and ended in June 2017. In the project, we analysed how urban experiments contribute to city development and how the positive potential of such experiments can be maximized. Ron Cörvers and I are the project leaders. An interview with me and Christian Scholl can be read at http://webmagazine.maastrichtuniversity.nl/index.php/research/society/item/540-lessons-learnt-from-urban-labs and an article we wrote at http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/urbanplanning/article/view/749

Diffusion Strategy of Green Technology and Green Industry in Africa analyses the status of adoption of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies (RET), their sources, potential, drivers and barriers in Africa with experiences of Kenya and Nigeria examined as pilot cases. The project engaged in original data collection through survey analysis and case studies. The project is done in cooperation with UNIDO and ATPS and funded by KEEI in South Korea. I was the project leader of this 2-year project, which finished in 2014. The final report can be accessed here.

Two other recent projects are Inspirator and Organext. Inspirator analyses the coproduction of knowledge in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects on global change and sustainability in the Netherlands. Organext is a cooperative project of universities and companies in the Euregion around Hasselt/Maastricht about the development of novel nanomaterials and innovative deposition techniques for next generation electro-optical applications, and in particular thin-film solar cells.

Before those projects, I was involved in a 5-year research project on sustainable mobility. In this project co-evolution processes are being studied of user practices, transport innovations, government policies - how these give rise to new patterns and resistance. Results of the projects and other mobility studies are brought together in the book Automobility in transition? edited by Frank Geels, Geoff Dudley, Glenn Lyons and myself. Book trailer

In 2010 I was involved in the Global Energy Assessment in the chapter on policies for capacity development (led by Lynn Mytelka) and with Anthony Arundel and Minna Kanerva I studied the innovation policy implications of the climate change, resource scarcity and demographic change (Innogrips project).

Personal information

Date of birth:	January 4, 1961
Place of birth:	Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Nationality:	Dutch
Telephone:	+31 43 3884405 (MERIT) 83285 (ICIS)
Fax:	+31 43 3884499
Email:	r.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl, kemp@merit.unu.edu
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
2008	Masterclass ‘Systeeminnovatie en transities: van analyse naar doorbraken op regimeniveau’, 8 Dec 2008, Gent.
2011	Masterclass about Sustainable Development requiring multiple transitions, 19 Aug 2011,Brussels
2012	Masterclass about Knowledge production for Sustainable Development, 12-13 April, Maastricht
2012 -	Master Course about Knowledge production for Sustainable Development for Master Sustainability Science, Policy & Society
2016 and 2019 2019 - 2020 -	PhD course on Studying causality in innovation processes, UNU-MERIT, 14-18 March, Maastricht Master course about Research Approaches and Methods for SSPS master Module Innovation for Sustainability of the Governance of Innovation Track of MPP

Supervision

Promoter of Marc Dijk, Derk Loorbach, Flor Avelino, Bilal Mirza, Veronique Vasseur, Serdar Turkeli, Julian Blohmke, David Font Vivanco, Eva Bartekova and Myrthe Velter and co-promotor of John Adeoti, Viki Sonntag and Andreas Reinstaller who all successfully defended their PhD.
Supervisor of PhD students Martin Kügemann, Julia Backhaus, Tim Strasser, Wendy Broers, Olga Rataj, Kiia Strommer, Joyce Treptow and Job Zomerplaag
Supervisor of Marie Curie fellows Thomas Rüdiger and Heracles Polatidis.
Supervisor of 80+ graduation theses at UM and 3 ESST master theses.
External examiner of 28 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	Senior researcher at ICIS (International Center of Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development) (half time) Senior researcher at DRIFT (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions), Erasmus University Rotterdam (for 0.4, later 0.2)
2006	Visiting researcher at SPRU (UK)
2007	Visiting researcher at CIRUS (Switzerland)
2010 --	Professor of Innovation and Sustainable Development, ICIS, Faculty of Humanities and Science (half time) and professorial fellow UNU-MERIT (half time) in Maastricht
2011 2014-2015	Visiting professor at Telecom Ecole de Management in Paris (France) Visiting professor at Australian Innovation Research Center, Hobart, Tasmania.

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 (between 2003 and 2009)
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 (from Nov 2006 to Dec 2009).
Member of scientific board ARTEC, University of Bremen, Forschungszentrum Nachhaltigkeit http://www.artec.uni-bremen.de/profil/index.php (from 2007 to 2010)
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
Editor of the new Elsevier Journal Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (since 2010)
Leading Analyst in the Global Energy Assessment (GEA)
Co-organiser DIME Policy workshop on Eco-innovation markets and dynamics. Febr 23, 2010, Brussels
Contributor to UNEP’s International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management report on Decoupling (2010).
Advisory board member of Eon/EPSRC project Transition Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy (2010 - 2013)
Scientific Board member of the Eco-Innovation Observatory http://www.eco-innovation.eu/ (2010 - 2014)
Editor of Sustainability Science (2011 - )
Member of the JRC working group Understanding and Managing Industrial Transitions (2019-2020)

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.
2007 -2008	Project leader and principal researcher of the project “Measuring eco-innovation” (MEI ) for the European Commission
2010 - 2011	Innogrips project about innovation policy for Europe http://www.proinno-europe.eu/innogrips2
2011 -	EmInInn: Environmental Macro Indicators of Innovation. Funded by the EU, EMInInn will assess macro-economic impacts of eco-innovation. I will identify and describe the relevant innovations, aggregate the innovations in useful categories and sociotechnical wholes, map out diffusion of innovations in scenarios, and parameterise socio-technical change for model simulations and estimations about macro- effects. It is led by the Wuppertal Institute.
	Inspirator analyses the coproduction of knowledge in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects on global change and sustainability. It is joint project of ICIS and the University of Utrecht.
	Organext is a research and innovation project about the development of novel nanomaterials and innovative deposition techniques for next generation electro-optical applications, and in particular thin-film solar cells. It a cooperative project of universities and companies in the Euregion. I am involved in the market and sustainability assessment of organic solar cells. The project is funded by the Interreg programme and led by the University of Hasselt. http://www.organext.org/
2012 -	POLFREE is a 4 year study for the European Commission into the reasons for resource inefficiency in Europe and how this may be overcome through policy. It led by UCL in London and will run until 2016. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/polfree
2015-2017	TRANSIT, an EU research project that will develop a theory of transformative social innovation which is about empowerment and change in society. http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/ Role: Principal researcher and work package leader
2015-2017	URB@Exp, a transdisciplinary research project about urban experiments for urban governance. In the project, which is done with researchers, policymakers and civil society actors in Austria, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. http://www.urbanexp.eu/ Role: project leader together with Ron Cörvers.
2016	European Environment Agency (EEA) project about transitions and transformations, where I am tasked to survey the literature on socio-economic transformations, to examine their relevance for sustainable development policy. Role: Principal researcher
2015-2018	“Energy Efficiency of Households in Cities: A Multi-method Analysis” together with the Chinese Academy of Science (CEEP). Role: project leader together with Prof Ying Fan of the Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2016-2018	Smarterlabs, a project about smart mobility Living Lab experiments in four cities: Bellinzona, Brussels, Graz and Maastricht. The project is funded by the Urban Europe programme. www.smarterlabs.eu Role: project leader together with Ron Cörvers
2015-2018	SINCERE project about research efficiency and circular economy in Europe and China. In this project researchers from Europe and China examine historical patterns between resource indicators, trade and macro-economic performance, develop new economic models for explaining resource-use and examine the role of policy in RE and CE patterns. Role: Work package leader and researcher
2015-2018 2020-	Green.eu, a network of European and international researchers, policy makers and stakeholders in the fields of eco-innovation, green economy, and sustainable development. Role: Principal researcher, responsible for a manual for measuring eco-innovation for a green economy TransB, a 4-year project of NWO with the Centre of Urban Studies of the University of Amsterdam, KWR and water companies and the municipalities of Amsterdam and Kerkrade in the Netherlands. VerDuS, Synthesis of results of the NWO programme about urban sustainability. https://www.verdus.nl/stedelijke-duurzaamheidstransities-energie-klimaat-circulariteit/

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).

Vollebergh, H, W. van Groenendaal, M. Hofkes, R. Kemp (2004) Milieubeleid en Technologissche Ontwikkeling in de Nederlandse Economie, SDU Uitgevers, Den Haag..

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

Geels, F.W. Kemp, R., Dudley, G., and Lyons G. (eds.) (2012), Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, Routledge, New York.

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.

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

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 (2010) Patents as a measure for eco-innovation, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. 13(2): 130 – 148.

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

Bilal, M., and Kemp, R. (2009) Why rural rich remain energy poor, UNU-MERIT working paper series 2009-024.

Kemp, R., and J. Rotmans (2009) Transitioning Policy: Co-production of a new strategic framework for energy innovation policy in the Netherlands, Policy Sciences, 42: 303–322.

Kemp, R. (2009) 'Eco-innovations and transitions, Economia delle fonti di energia e dell'ambiente (Special issue on 'Heterodox environmental economics'), 52 (1), pp. 103-124

Kemp, R, Avelino F., Bressers N. (2010) Transition management as a model for sustainable mobility', will be published in European Transport/Trasporti Europei (Special issue on 'New frontiers of transport research'), issue no. 45, August 2010

Kanerva, M, A. Arundel and R. Kemp (2009) Environmental innovation: Using qualitative models to identify indicators for policy, UNU-MERIT working paper series 2009-047.

Arundel, A, Kemp, R, and Machiba, T (2009) Measuring eco-innovation: Existing Methods for Macro-Level Analysis, in OECD publication Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth, OECD, Paris (co-author), pp. 147-179.

Dijk, M. and R. Kemp (2010) A framework for product market innovation paths – Emergence of hybrid vehicles as an example, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 10(1): 56-76.

Kemp, R,, F.W. Geels and G. Dudley (2010) Introduction: Sustainability transitions in the automobility regime and the need for a new perspective, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge (forthcoming).

Geels, F.W., and R. Kemp (2010) The transition perspective as a new perspective for road mobility study, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge (forthcoming).

Geels, F.W, G. Dudley, and R. Kemp (2010) Findings, conclusions and assessments of sustainability transitions in auto-mobility, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge (forthcoming).

Orsato, R.J., M. Dijk, R. Kemp and M. Yarime (2010) The Electrification of Automobility. The bumpy ride of electric vehicles towards regime transition, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge (forthcoming).

Parkhurst, G., Kemp, R., Dijk, M., Sherwin, H. (2010) Inter-modal travel: a growing niche, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge (forthcoming).

Kemp R. (2010) ‘Pursuing sustainable development in a globalising world’, in S. Beretta and R. Zoboli (eds) Global Governance in a Plural World, publication 38 of ASERI book series Relazioni Internazionali E Scienza Politica, V&P publishers, Milan, pp. 355-377.

Kemp, R. (2010) The Dutch Energy Transition Approach, International Economics and Economic Policy, 7: 291–316.

Kemp, R. (2010) ‘Eco-innovation: Definition, Measurement and Open Research Issues’, Economia politica. Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 27: 397-420.

Kemp, R. (2010) Sustainable technologies do not exist! Ekonomiaz. Revista Vasca de Economia, 75: 2- 17.

Vasseur, V., and Kemp, R. (2011), The role of policy in the evolution of technological innovation systems for photovoltaic power in Germany and the Netherlands, International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management , 11( 3-4): 307-327.
Kemp, R., and Oltra, V. (2011) ‘Research insights and challenges on eco-innovation dynamics’, Innovation and Industry, 18(3): 249–253.

Kemp, R., and van Lente, H. (2011), ‘The Dual Challenge of Sustainability Transitions’, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1): 121-124.

Kemp, R. (2011) Innovation for sustainable development as a topic for environmental assessment, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15(5): 673-675.

Kemp, R, Avelino F., Bressers N. (2011) Transition management as a model for sustainable mobility', European Transport/Trasporti Europei, 47(1-2): 25- 46.

Dijk, M., Kemp, R. and Valkering P. (2011), ‘Incorporating social context and co-evolution in an innovation diffusion model, forthcoming in Journal of Evolutionary Economics. DOI 10.1007/s00191-011-0241-5

Kemp, R. (2011) Ten Themes of Eco-Innovation Policies in Europe, S.A.P.IE.N.S.(Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment & Society) vol 4.2 http://sapiens.revues.org/1169

Kemp, R., and S. Pontoglio (2011) The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments—A typical case of the blind men and the elephant?, Ecological Economics, 72: 28-36

Mirza, B., and R. Kemp(2011) Why the Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor, Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 6(1): 133–155
http://journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/consilience/index.php/consilience/article/view/180

Avelino, F., Bressers, N, and Kemp, R. (2012) ‘Transition Management and Sustainable Mobility Policy: the Case of the Netherlands”, in Geerlings, H., Shiftan, Y. and Stead, D. (eds) Transition towards Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 33-52.

Mytelka, L., F. Aguayo, G. Boyle, S. Breukers, G. de Scheemaker, I. Abdel Gelil, R. Kemp, J. Monkelbaan, C. Rossini, J. Watson and R. Wolson, 2012: Chapter 25 - Policies for Capacity Development. In Global Energy Assessment - Toward a Sustainable Future, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, pp. 1745-1802.

Kemp, R,, F.W. Geels and G. Dudley (2012) Introduction: Sustainability transitions in the automobility regime and the need for a new perspective, chapter for book Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge, New York, pp. 3-28.

Geels, F.W., and R. Kemp (2012) The transition perspective as a new perspective for road mobility study, in Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge, New York, pp. 49-79

Geels, F.W, G. Dudley, and R. Kemp (2012) Findings, conclusions and assessments of sustainability transitions in auto-mobility, in Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge, New York, pp. 335-373.

Orsato, R.J., M. Dijk, R. Kemp and M. Yarime (2012) The Electrification of Automobility. The bumpy ride of electric vehicles towards regime transition, in Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge, New York, pp. 205-228.

Parkhurst, G., Kemp, R., Dijk, M., Sherwin, H. (2012) Intermodal personal mobility: A niche caught between two regimes, in Automobility in Transition? A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport, edited by F.W. Geels, R. Kemp, G. Dudley and G. Lyons, Routledge, pp. 308-334.

Rotmans, J., Loorbach, D., and R. Kemp (2012) 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, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 177-197.

Oehme, N., and Kemp, R. (2013) Eco-activity and Innovativeness: What is their Relation to Environment Performance in Consumer Firms and Industrial Firms?, in Costantini, V. and Mazzanti M, (eds.) The Dynamics of Environmental and Economic Systems - Innovation, Environmental Policy and Competitiveness, Springer, pp. 117-142

Kemp, R., van Lente, H. (2013) The Dual Challenge of Sustainability Transitions: Different Trajectories and Criteria, in Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown and Philip J. Vergragt (eds.) Innovations in Sustainable Consumption. New Economics, Sociotechnical Transitions and Social Practices, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK / Northhampton, US, pp. 115-132.

Nie, H., Kemp, R. (2013) Why did energy intensity fluctuate [in China] during 2000-2009? A combination of Index decomposition analysis and Structural decomposition analysis, accepted for publication in Energy for Sustainable Development, 17(5): 482-488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2013.06.001

Bocken, N., Farracho, M. Bosworth, R. and Kemp, R. (2013) The front-end of eco-innovation for eco-innovative small and medium sized companies, The International Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 31: 43–57

Font Vivanco, D., Kemp, R., van der Voet, E., Heijungs, R.. (2013) Using LCA-based decomposition analysis to study the multi-dimensional contribution of technological innovation to environmental pressures, forthcoming in Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Haxeltine, Alex, Flor Avelino, Julia Wittmayer, René Kemp, Paul Weaver, Julia Backhaus, and Tim O’Riordan (2013) Transformative Social Innovation: A Sustainability Transitions Perspective on Social Innovation, paper for Social Innovation Research Conference | November 14-15 2013

Adeoti, J., Kemp, R., Ndichu, J., Obayelu, A.E., Blohmke, J., Kaplinsky, R., Urama, K. (2013), Diffusion strategy of green technology and green industry in Africa. A study of renewable energy technology market, and energy efficiency adoption in Cassava and Maize processing industries in Kenya and Nigeria. Final report of study for KEEI and UNIDO.

Bocken, Nancy, Margarida Farracho, Rosie Bosworth and René Kemp (2013) The front-end of eco-innovation for eco-innovative small and medium sized companies, The International Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 31: 43–57

Blohmke, J. Ndichu, J., Kemp, R., Adeoti, J.O., and Obayelu, A.E. (2013) Renewabe energy technology adoption in developing countries and how technology suppliers can strengthen fragmented innovation systems, Économie Appliquée 66(4): 167-193.

Nie, H., Kemp, R. (2014) Index decomposition analysis of residential energy consumption in China: 2002-2010, Applied Energy, 121: 10–19

Font Vivanco, D., Kemp, R., van der Voet, E., Heijungs, R.. (2014) Using LCA-based decomposition analysis to study the multi-dimensional contribution of technological innovation to environmental pressures, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19(3): 380-392.

Vasseur, V. & Kemp, R., (2014). "The adoption of PV in the Netherlands: A statistical analysis of adoption factors". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 41: 483–494. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.020

Dijk, M., R. Orsato and R. Kemp (2014). "Towards a regime-based typology of market evolution", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.10.002

Font Vivanco, D., Freire-González, J., Kemp, R., Heijungs, R., van der Voet, E. (2014) The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach, Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 12063−12072.

Backhaus, J., Wieser, H. and Kemp, R. (2014) Disentangling Practices, Carriers, and Production-Consumption Systems: A Mixed-method Study of (Sustainable) Food Consumption, in E.H. Kennedy, M.J. Cohen and N. Krogman (eds.) Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, pp. 109-133.

Avelino, F. Wittmayer, J., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., O’Riordan, T., Weaver, P., Loorbach, D. and Rotmans, J. (2014) Game-changers and Transformative Social Innovation. The Case of the Economic Crisis and the New Economy, [TRANSIT working paper]

Font Vivanco, D., van der Voet, E., Kemp, R. (2015). The relativity of eco-innovation: Environmental rebound effects from past transport innovations in Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production, 101(15): 71–85.

Adeoti, J., Kemp R., Ndichu, J., Obayelu, A.E., Blohmke, J., Kaplinsky, R.,. and Urama, K. (2015) “Diffusion Strategy of Green Technology and Green Industry in Africa. A Study of Renewable Energy Technology Market, and Energy Efficiency Adoption in Cassava and Maize Processing Industries in Kenya and Nigeria”, final report of study for UNIDO and KEEI.

Ndichu, J., Blohmke, J., Kemp R., Adeoti, J., Obayelu, A.E. (2015) The adoption of energy efficiency measures by firms in Africa: case studies of cassava processing in Nigeria and maize milling in Kenya, Innovation and Development, 5:2: 189-206.

Essebo, M., Kemp, R., Scholl, C., Hillgren,, P-A, Agger Eriksen, M., and Seravalli, A. (2015) Urban Labs for Urban Governance, paper for the 6th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, Sustainability Transitions and Wider Transformative Change Historical Roots and Future Pathways, 25th – 28th August 2015, Brighton, University of Sussex Campus (Falmer), UK

Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J., Dumitru, A., Longhurst, N., Hielscher, S., Weaver, P., Cipolla, C., Afonso, R., Kunze, I., Dorland, J., Elle, M., Pel, B., Strasser, T., Kemp, R., Haxeltine, A. (2015) Transitions towards ‘New Economies’? A Transformative Social Innovation Perspective, paper for the 6th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, Sustainability Transitions and Wider Transformative Change Historical Roots and Future Pathways, 25th – 28th August 2015, Brighton, University of Sussex Campus (Falmer), UK

Backhaus, J., Kemp, R., van Lente, H. (2015) Transforming the economy vs. transitioning to a sharing economy. Theories of change in four bodies of literature, paper for SCORAI workshop, 17 Nov, 2015 in Vienna.

Blohmke, J., Kemp, R., Turkeli, S. (2015) Disentangling the causal structure behind environmental regulation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 103: 174-190.

Kemp, R.; Zuijderwijk, L.; Weaver, P.; Seyfang, G.; Avelino, F.; Strasser, T.; Becerra, L.; Backhaus, J. and Ruijsink, S. (2015) Doing things differently : exploring Transformative Social innovation and its practical challenges, TRANSIT Brief 1.

Pel, B.; Weaver, P.; Strasser, T.; Kemp, R.; Avelino, F. and Becerra, L. (2015) Governance: Co-productions challenges in Transformative Social Innovation, TRANSIT Brief 2.

Sri Astuti, E., Offermans, A., Kemp, R., and Cörvers R. (2016) The Impact of Coffee Certification on the Economic Performance of Indonesian Actors, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, 12(2): 1-16

Nie, H., Kemp, R., Font Vivanco, D., Vasseur,V. (2016) Structural decomposition analysis of energy-related CO2 emissions in China from 1997 to 2010, Energy Efficiency. DOI 10.1007/s12053-016-9427-x

Flor Avelino, Julia M. Wittmayer, Bonno Pel, Paul Weaver, Adina Dumitru, Alex Haxeltine, René Kemp, Michael S. Jørgensen, Tom Bauler, Saskia Ruijsink, Tim O’Riordan (2016). Transformative Social Innovation and (Dis)Empowerment, submitted to Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Dijk, M. Wells, P. and Kemp, R. (2016) Will the momentum of the electric car last? Testing an hypothesis on disruptive innovation, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 105: 77–88

Dijk, M., Kemp, R., Domenech, T. (2016) Understanding the Web of Constraints on Resource Efficiency in Europe – Lessons for Policy, Policy Brief 1, POLFREE project.

Kemp, R., Dijk, M., Backhaus, J., Kammerlander, M. (2016) Constraints to Resource-Efficient Consumer Behaviour, Policy Brief 2, POLFREE project.

Dijk, M., Iversen, E., Klitkou, A., Kemp, R., Bolwig, S., Borup, M. (2016) Forks in the road to e-mobility: An evaluation of national policy mixes in northwest Europe.

Kemp, R., Zuijderwijk, L., Weaver, P., Seyfang, G., Avelino, F., Strasser, T., Becerra, L., Backhaus, J. and Ruijsink, S. (2015) Doing things differently: Exploring Transformative Social innovation and its practical challenges (TRANSIT Brief 1).

Pel, B., Weaver, P., Strasser, T., Kemp, R., Avelino, F. and Becerra, L. (2015) Governance: Co-productions challenges in Transformative Social Innovation (TRANSIT Brief 2).

Font Vivanco, D., Kemp, R., van der Voet, E. (2016). How to deal with the environmental rebound effect? A policy-oriented approach, Energy Policy, 94: 114–125.

Font Vivanco, D., McDowall, E., Freire-González, J. Kemp, R., van der Voet, E. (2016). Foundations of the environmental rebound effect and its contribution towards a general framework, Ecological Economics, 125: 60–69.

Bartekova, E., Kemp, R., (2016) National strategies for securing a stable supply of rare earths in different world regions, Resource Policy, 49: 153–164

Schepelmann, P. Kemp, R. and Schneidewind, U. (2016) The eco-restructuring of the Ruhr district as an example of a managed transition, in Hans Günter Brauch - Úrsula Oswald Spring - John Grin - Jürgen Scheffran (Eds.): Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace (STSP). Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace 10 (Cham - Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer), pp. 593-612.

Kemp, R., Strasser, T., Davidson, D., Avelino, F., Pel, B., Dumitru, A, Kunze, I., Backhaus, J., O’Riordan, T., Haxeltine, A., and Weaver, P.. (2016). The humanization of the economy through social innovation, paper for SPRU 50th anniversary conference and IST2016 conference.

Weaver, P.W., Kemp, R., Strasser, T., Backhaus, J., Pel, B., Avelino, A. (2016) Transformative change for an inclusive society: Insights from social innovations and implications, paper for SPRU 50th anniversary conference and IST2016 conference.

Scholl, C., Kemp, R. (2016) City Labs as vehicles for innovation in urban planning processes, Urban Planning, 1(4): 89–102 http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/urbanplanning/article/view/749

Loorbach, D., Avelino, F., Haxeltine, A., Wittmayer, J.M., O'Riordan, T., Weaver, P., Kemp, R. (2016). The economic crisis as a game changer? Exploring the role of social construction in sustainability transitions. Ecology and Society 21 (4):15. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss4/art15/

Cörvers, R., de Kraker, J., Kemp, R., Martens, P. & van Lente, H. (2016) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht,.

Kemp, R., van Lente, H. (2016) The dual challenge of sustainability transitions, in Cörvers, et al., (eds.) (2016) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht, p. 69-78

Vasseur, V., Kemp, R., (2106) The users of the technology: the case of solar PV in the Netherlands, in Cörvers et al., (eds.) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht, pp.87-96.

Dijk, M., Kemp, R., (2016) Challenges in the transition to a circular economy: understanding the
web of constraints to more efficient resource use, in Cörvers, et al. (eds.) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht, pp. 121-132.

Blohmke, J., Kemp, R., Türkeli, S.(2016) Disentangling the causal structure underlying environmental
Regulation, in Cörvers, et al. (eds.) (2016) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht, pp. 225-238.

Offermans, A., Kemp, R., (2016) Successful joint knowledge production: beyond credibility, saliency,
and legitimacy, in Cörvers et al., (eds.) Sustainability Development Research at ICIS. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: Datawyse / Universitaire Pers Maastricht pp. 299-2310.

Haxeltine, A, Avelino, F., Pel, B. Dumitru, A., Kemp, R., Chilvers, J. and Wittmayer, J.M. (2016) A framework for transformative social innovation. (TRANSIT working paper).

Dumitru, A.; Lema-Blanco, I.; Mira, R-C.; Kunze, I.; Strasser, T. and Kemp, R. (2016) Social learning for transformative social innovation, TRANSIT deliverable 2.3. TRANSIT:EU SSH.2003.3.2-1 Grant Agreement n.613169.

Alex Haxeltine, René Kemp, Stefana Cozan, Saskia Ruijsink, Julia Backhaus, Flor Avelino and Adina Dumitru (2017) How Social Innovation Leads to Transformative Change. Towards a theory of
transformative social innovation, TRANSIT brief 3.

Adina Dumitru, Isabel Lema-Blanco, Iris Kunze, Rene Kemp, Julia Wittmayer, Alex Haxeltine, Ricardo García-Mira, Linda Zuijderwijk and Stefana Cozan (2017) Social Learning in Social Innovation Initiatives. Learning about systemic relations and strategies for transformative change, TRANSIT brief 4.

McDowall, W., Geng, Y., Huang, B., Barteková, E., Bleischwitz, R., Türkeli, S., Kemp, R. and Doménech, T. (2017), Circular Economy Policies in China and Europe. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 21: 651–661. doi:10.1111/jiec.12597

Bonno Pel, Adina Dumitru, René Kemp, Alex Haxeltine, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen, Flor Avelino, Iris Kunze, Jens Dorland, Julia Wittmayer and Tom Bauler (2017) Synthesis Report: meta- analysis of Critical Turning Points in TSI. Deliverable 5.4 of TRANSIT project.

Kemp, R., Barteková, E., Türkeli, S. (2017) The Innovation Trajectory of Eco-Cement in the Netherlands, International Economics and Economic Policy, 14(3): 409–429 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10368-017-0384-4

Miedzinski M., McDowall W., Turkeli S., Kemp R. (2017) An expert-led participatory evaluation of public policies for sustainability transitions, Conference paper presented at IST2017, Gothenburg, 19-21 July, 2017.

Türkeli, S., Kemp, R., Huang, B., Bleischwitz, R., McDowall, W. (2017). Circular economy scientific knowledge in the European Union and China: A bibliometric and network analysis (2006-2016), paper submitted to the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Avelino, A., Wittmayer, J., Pel, B., Weaver, P.W., Dumitru, A., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., Jørgensen, M.S., Bauler, T., Ruijsink, S., O’Riordan, T. (2017). Transformative Social Innovation and (Dis)Empowerment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, available on line June 7, 2017. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517305802

Kemp, R., Never, B., Türkeli, S. (2017) Phasing-in Green Technologies in developing countries to foster Sustainable Development Goals, chapter for the book "Science, Technology and Innovation for Meeting Sustainable Development Goals”, Oxford University Press.

Haxeltine, A., Pel, B. Dumitru, A., Kemp, R., Avelino, F. Jørgensen, M.S., Wittmayer, J. Kunze, I., Dorland, J., Bauler, T. (2017) TRANSIT WP3 deliverable D3.4 – consolidated version of TSI theory
Deliverable no. D3.4.

Weaver, P., Marks, M., Kemp, R., Hogan, L., Ruijsink, S., Becerra, L., Wittmayer, J., Olivotto, V. and Strasser, T. (2017) Deliverable 2.4 : Resourcing for social innovation : working papers, key insights for practice and policy, lessons for facilitation tools and workshop report, TRANSIT: EU SHH.2013.3.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169.

Weaver, P., Marks, M.., Hogan, L., Wittmayer, J., Ruijsink, S., Becerra, L., Cozan, S., Kemp, R., Strasser, T., Zuijderwijk, L. (2017) Resourcing, Monitoring and Evaluation: Scaling Challenges and Pathways, TRANSIT brief 5.

Kemp, R., Weaver, P. W., Ruijsink, S., Wittmayer, J., Olivotto, V. and Strasser, T. (2017) Deliverable 2.5 : How to make monitoring into a useful activity for social innovators? Working paper, key insights for practice and policy, lessons for facilitation tools and workshop report, TRANSIT: EU SHH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169.

Weaver, P. M. and Kemp, R. (2017) A review of evaluation methods relevant for social innovation: with suggestions for their use and development (TRANSIT working paper # 14, July 2017), TRANSIT.

Velter, M., Kemp, R., Bocken, N., Bitzer, V., (2017) Creating Shared Value through Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: the role of Boundary Work, paper for the 18th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production Conference (ERSCP 2017).

Turkeli, S., & Kemp, R. P. M. (2017). Effective research and innovation (R&I) policy in the EU-28: A causal and configurational analysis of political governance determinant, submitted to Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

Turkeli, S., & Kemp, R. P. M. (2017). The political economy of research and innovation in organic photovoltaics (OPV) in different world regions, submitted to International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy

Nie, H, Vasseur, V., Fan, Y., Kemp, R., Xu, J-H (2017) Structural equation modelling of residential energy-saving behaviour based on theory of planned behaviour: Evidence from Changchun, China", Submitted to Energy Efficiency

Haxeltine, A., Pel, P., Wittmayer, J., Dumitru, A., Kemp, R. and Avelino, A. (2017) Building a middle-range theory of Transformative Social Innovation; theoretical pitfalls and methodological responses, European Public & Social Innovation Review (EPSIR) http://pub.sinnergiak.org/index.php/esir/article/view/51/19

Jin-Hua XU, Bin-Bin Peng, Ying Fan, René Kemp, Hongguang Nie (2017) Analyzing the contributing sources of rapid growth of passenger transport energy consumption in China using a hybrid decomposition model, submitted to Transport Policy

Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J. M. , Kemp, R., Haxeltine, A.. (2017). Game-changers and transformative social innovation. Ecology and Society 22 (4):41. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss4/art41/

Wittmayer, J.M., Kemp. R., Haxeltine, A., Avelino, F., Pel. B., Ruijsink, S., Jørgensen, M. S. and Rach, S. (2017) Transformative social innovation - What have we learned in four years of research? (TRANSIT Brief ; 6), TRANSIT: EU SHH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement: 613169.

Haxeltine, A., Pel, B., Dumitru, A., Avelino, F., Kemp, R., F., Bauler, T., Kunze, I., Dorland, J., Wittmayer, J., and Jørgensen, M. S. (2017) Towards a TSI theory : a relational framework and 12 propositions, (TRANSIT working paper ; 16, December 2017), TRANSIT: EU SSH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169.

Backhaus, J., van Lente, H. & Kemp, R. (2018). The idea(l) of a ‘sustainable sharing economy’: four social science perspectives on transformative change, In: J. Backhaus, A. Genus, S. Lorek, E. Vadovics & J.M. Wittmayer (eds) Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption: Research and Action for Societal Transformation. London: Routledge.

Nie, H-g, Kemp, R., Xu, J-h, Vasseur, V., Fan, Y., (2018) Drivers of urban and rural residential energy consumption in China from the perspectives of climate and economic effects, Journal of Cleaner Production 172: 954-963.

Kemp, R., Weaver, P.M., Golland, A., Strasser, T, Backhaus, J. (2018) Socio-economic transformations: insights for sustainability, chapter 4 of Perspectives on transitions to sustainability, EEA Report No 25/2017, European Environment Agency, European Commission, pp. 70-96 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/perspectives-on-transitions-to-sustainability

Pel, B., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., Dumitru, A., Avelino, F., (2018) Transformative Social Innovation: Implications for Transitions Research, paper for IST conference, Manchester, June 12-14, 2018.

Türkeli, S., Kemp, R., Huang, B., Bleischwitz, R., McDowall, W. (2018) Circular economy scientific knowledge in the European Union and China: A bibliometric, network and survey analysis (2006–2016), Journal of Cleaner Production, Available online 14 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.118

Scholl, C., Kemp, R., de Kraker, J. (2018) City labs as instruments to shape common ground in urban sustainability, paper. https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/app/uploads/2017/04/Scholl_et_al_City_labs_as_instrument_to_shape_common_ground_in_urban_sustainability-v3.pdf

Türkeli S., Kemp R. (2018) Changing Patterns in Eco-Innovation Research: A Bibliometric Analysis. In: Horbach J., Reif C. (eds) New Developments in Eco-Innovation Research. Sustainability and Innovation. Springer, pp. 13-54
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93019-0_2

Malone, E.L., Betsill, M., Hughes, S., Kemp, R., Lutzenhiser, L, Moezzi, M., Preston, B.L., West, T.O. (2018), Chapter 6: Social science perspectives on carbon. In Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 264-302, https://doi.org/10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Ch6

Kemp, R., (2018) Human touch, article in the Mint Magazine, https://www.themintmagazine.com/issue-6-rene-kemp

Türkeli, S., Huang, B., Stasik, A., Kemp, R. (2019) Circular Economy as a Glocal Business Activity: Mobile Phone Repair in the Netherlands, Poland and China, Energies, 12(3), 498 https://doi.org/10.3390/en12030498

Kemp, R., Pel, P., Goldschmeding, F., Scholl, C. (2019) Bringing political economy, immaterial needs and cultural change into the framework of a Deep Transition, Paper for the ISTt2019 conference in Ottawa, June 24-26, 2019.

Strasser, T., de Kraker, J., Kemp, R., (2019) "Developing the transformative capacity of social innovation through learning: a conceptual framework and research agenda for the roles of network leadership”, Sustainability, 11(5), 1304; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051304

Broers, W., Vasseur, V., Kemp, R., Abujidi, N., & Vroon, Z. (2019). Decided or Divided? An empirical analysis of the decision-making process of Dutch homeowners for energy renovation measures, Energy Research & Social Science, 58. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462961930283X

Kemp, R., Ramani, S. (2019) Solution design through a stakeholder process as a new perspective for Environmental Economics with illustrations from Indian case studies, chapter accepted for publication in M. Ruth (ed.), A Research Agenda for Environmental Economics, Edward Eldgar, Cheltenham, UK.

Dijk, M., Backhaus, J., Wieser, H., Kemp, R. (2019) Policies tackling the “web of constraints” on resource efficient practices: the case of mobility, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 15:1, 62-81, DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2019.1663992

Kemp, R., Arundel, A., Rammer, C., Miedzinski, M., Tapia, C., Barbieri, N., Tűrkeli, S., Bassi, A.M., Mazzanti, M., Chapman, D., Diaz López, F., McDowall, W. (2019) Measuring Eco-Innovation for a Green Economy, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter (special issue on Nachhaltigkeit/Sustainability), 66(4): 391-404.

Diepenmaat, H., Kemp, R., Velter, M. (2019), Why sustainable development requires societal innovation and cannot be achieved without this, paper for Sustainability (special issue "Sustainable Innovation and Transformation"). doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119497.

Avelino, A., Wittmayer, J., Pel, B., Weaver, P.W., Dumitru, A., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., Jørgensen, M.S., Bauler, T., Ruijsink, S., O’Riordan, T. (2019). Transformative Social Innovation and (Dis)Empowerment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 145: 195-206.

Velter, M., Bocken, N., Bitzer, V., Kemp, R. (2020). Sustainable business model innovation: The role of boundary work for multi-stakeholder alignment, Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119497 .

Dijk, M.; Iversen, E.; Klitkou, A.; Kemp, R.; Bolwig, S.; Borup, M.; Møllgaard, P. (2020). Forks in the Road to E-Mobility: An Evaluation of Instrument Interaction in National Policy Mixes in Northwest Europe. Energies, 13, 475. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/475

Pel, B., Kemp, R., (2020). Between Innovation and Restoration; Towards a critical-historicizing understanding of Social Innovation Niches, revised paper for Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.

Grazzi, M., Sasso, S., Kemp, R., (2019). A Conceptual Framework to Measure Green Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Discussion paper Nº IDB-DP-730.

Velter, M., Bocken, N., Bitzer, V., Kemp, R. (2019). Sustainable business model innovation: The role of boundary work for multi-stakeholder alignment, Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119497.

Diepenmaat, H., Kemp, R., Velter, M. (2020), Why sustainable development requires societal innovation and cannot be achieved without this, Sustainability (special issue "Sustainable Innovation and Transformation"). https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1270

Pel, B., Kemp, R., (2020). Between Innovation and Restoration: Towards a critical-historicizing understanding of Social Innovation Niches, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2020.1750588

Strasser, T., de Kraker, J., Kemp, R. (2020) Three Dimensions of Transformative Impact and Capacity: A Conceptual Framework Applied in Social Innovation Practice. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4742.

Nie, H., Kemp, R., Vasseur, V. (2020) Exploring the Changing Gap of Residential Energy Consumption per Capita in China and the Netherlands: A Comparative Analysis of Driving Forces. Sustainability, 12, 4634.

Pel, B., Haxeltine, A., Dumitru, A., Avelino, F., Kemp, R., F., Bauler, T., Kunze, I., Dorland, J., Wittmayer, J., Jørgensen, M. S. (2020). Towards a Theory of Transformative Social Innovation. A Relational Framework and 12 Propositions, Research Policy 49(8): 104080 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873332030158X

Turkeli, S, Kemp, R. (2020) System Transitions for Sustainable Development Goal 9, in W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71059-4_95-1

Broers, W., Vasseur, V., Kemp, R., Abujidi, N., & Vroon, Z. (2021). Not all homeowners are alike: a segmentation model based on a quantitative analysis of Dutch adopters of residential photovoltaics, Energy Efficiency, 14(30). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-021-09937-0

Foreword in Huntjens, P. (2021) Towards a Natural Social Contract: Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society. Springer International Publishing,

Kemp, R., Turkeli, S. (2021). Sustainable Development as Redirected Evolution. Insights from Innovation Studies and Ecological Humanities, in G. Valdivieso, A. Casals and A.E. Builes Vélez (eds.) Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability edited by G. Valdivieso, A. Casals and A.E. Builes Vélez. https://repository.upb.edu.co/handle/20.500.11912/9748

Turkeli, S., Huang, B., Ohnishi, S., Kemp, R. (2021). Issues, Interventions and Innovations in the Cement Industry: A Comparative Trajectory Analysis of Eco-Cement Transitions in the Netherlands, China, and Japan, in: A. Stefanakis, I. Nikolaou, Circular Economy and Sustainability: Management and Policy, Volume 1, Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819817-9.00027-2.

Ziegler, R., Wichtmann, W., Abel, S., Kemp, R., Simard, J., Joosten, H. (2021) Wet peatland utilisation for climate protection – An international survey of paludiculture innovation, Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 5, 100305, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100305.

Strasser, T., de Kraker, J., & Kemp, R. (2022). Network Leadership for Transformative Capacity Development: Roles, Practices and Challenges, Global Sustainability, 5, E11. https://doi:10.1017/sus.2022.6

Huntjens, P., Kemp, R. (2022). The importance of a Natural Social Contract and co-evolutionary governance for sustainability transitions. Sustainability, 14(5), 2976 https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052976

Broers, W., Kemp, R., Vasseur, V., Abujidi, N., & Vroon, Z. (2022). Justice in social housing: Lessons and recommendations for a people-centred energy renovation process, Energy Research & Social Science, 88: 102527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102527

Kemp, R., Pel, B., Scholl, C., Boons, F. (2022) Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 44: 110–124.

Kemp, R. (2023). Duurzame ontwikkeling als historisch-bepaald wensbeeld. https://www.beste-id.nl/salon/duurzame-ontwikkeling-als-historisch-bepaald-wensbeeld

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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
Sustainable development requires multiple transitions, presentation at Masterclass about sustainable development, Aug, 19, 2011, Brussels
Presentation at The Transition Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy, Final dissemination Conference, London, April 18, 2012
Presentation at Policy Forum “Eco-innovation systems in developing countries” Berlin, Jan 27, 2014 Diffusion strategy of green technology and green industry in Africa
Presentation at the Lundvall symposium “Innovation policy – can it make a difference?”, Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark 13‐14 March 2014 Innovation policy for green energy and energy efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa
Presentation about Studying Innovation for 2015 EAEPE SUMMER SCHOOL 6–10 July, 2015 “CAPITALISM, INEQUALITY AND (UN)SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” University Roma Tre
Lecture for PhD course “Uncovering causality in innovation processes and outcomes” UNU-MERIT. 14 March 2016
Presentation at the SPRU 50th anniversary conference (7-9 Sept 2016) about The Humanisation of the Economy through Social Innovation
Sustainable Development as Redirected Evolution, Presentation at Seminar “Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability”, Dec 10, 2018, Santiago de Chili
WHAT POLICY MAKERS CAN DO TO PROMOTE GREEN INNOVATION, Training course on the Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 4-8 February 2019
Bringing political economy, immaterial needs and cultural change into the framework of a Deep Transition, IST2019 conference, Ottawa, June 24 26, 2019
Lessons of eco-innovation policy for smart specialization, Seminar at JRC in Sevilla, 24 Sept, 2019
The sustainability transition perspective applied to aviation, Presentation at Conference Aviation Emissions in Brussels, 21 & 22 October 2019
Rebalancing society - the humanization of the economy through social innovation, Public lecture Institute of Social Studies │University of Tartu (Estonia), Nov 7, 2019
Societal innovation via multiple value creation - the role for regional authorities and intermediaries, Invited talk for meeting on Understanding and Managing Industrial Transitions, Brussels, 9 Dec 2019

Publications for download

Rip, A., and Kemp, R. (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.

Kemp, R., Schot, J., Hoogma, R. (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, R. (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, F., en Kemp, R. (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.

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

Kemp, R. and Martens, R. (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

Avelino, F., and Kemp, R. (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 Kemp, R. (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., Bressers, N. and Kemp, R. (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 Rotmans, J. (2009) Transitioning Policy: Co-production of a new strategic framework for energy innovation policy in the Netherlands, Policy Sciences, 42: 303–322.

Kemp, R. (2010) The Dutch Energy Transition Approach, International Economics and Economic Policy, 7: 291–316.

Kemp, R., and Oltra, V. (2011) ‘Research insights and challenges on eco-innovation dynamics’, Innovation and Industry, 18(3): 249–253

Kemp, R., and van Lente, H. (2011), The Dual Challenge of Sustainability Transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1): 121-124

Kemp, R, Avelino F., Bressers N. (2011) Transition management as a model for sustainable mobility, European Transport/Trasporti Europei, 47: 1- 22.

Arundel, A., Kanerva, M., Kemp, R. (2011) Integrated Innovation Policy for an Integrated Problem: Addressing Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Demographic Change to 2030. PRO INNO Europe: INNO-Grips II report, Brussels: European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. http://www.proinno-europe.eu/inno-grips-ii/workshop/implications-climate-change-resource-scarcity-and-demographic-developments-in

Kemp, R. (2011) Ten Themes of Eco-Innovation Policies in Europe, S.A.P.IE.N.S. (Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment & Society) vol 4.2 http://sapiens.revues.org/1169

Kemp, R., and S. Pontoglio (2011) The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments—A typical case of the blind men and the elephant?, Ecological Economics, 72: 28-36

Mirza, B., and R. Kemp(2011) Why the Rural Rich Remain Energy Poor, Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development 6(1): 133–155

Kemp, R., and van Lente, H. (2011), The Dual Challenge of Sustainability Transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1): 121-124.

Haxeltine, Alex , Flor Avelino, Julia Wittmayer, René Kemp, Paul Weaver, Julia Backhaus and Tim O’Riordan, 2013 Transformative Social Innovation: A Sustainability Transitions Perspective on Social Innovation

Avelino, Flor, Julia Wittmayer, Alex Haxeltine, René Kemp, Tim O’Riordan, Paul Weaver, Derk Loorbach and Jan Rotmans 2014 Game Changers and Transformative Social Innovation. The Case of the Economic Crisis and the New Economy. Paper presented at the Synthesis Workshop on “The role of Game-changers in Transformative Social Innovation”, TRANSIT: EU SSH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169, 1-2 September 2014, Rotterdam

Blohmke, J., Kemp, R., Turkeli, S. (2015) Disentangling the causal structure behind environmental regulation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 103: 174-190.

Nie, H., Kemp, R., Font Vivanco, D., Vasseur,V. (2016) Structural decomposition analysis of energy-related CO2 emissions in China from 1997 to 2010, Energy Efficiency. DOI 10.1007/s12053-016-9427-x

Dijk, M. Wells, P. and Kemp, R. (2016) Will the momentum of the electric car last? Testing an hypothesis on disruptive innovation, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 105: 77–88.

Scholl, C., Kemp, R. (2016) City Labs as vehicles for innovation in urban planning processes, Urban Planning, 1(4): 89–102 http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/urbanplanning/article/view/749

Contact details

René Kemp
UNU-MERIT, Boschstraat 24, 6211 AX Maastricht, The Netherlands
https://www.merit.unu.edu/
r.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl Kemp@merit.unu.edu; Tel +31 43 3884405 /4400

MSI (formerly ICIS), Tapijnkazerne 11, 6211 ME Maastricht (NL)

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/maastricht-sustainability-institute-msi
r.kemp@maastrichtuniversity.nl Tel +31 43 3883285,