Prof Frank Geels

Professor of System Innovation

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  1. Published

    A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions

    Geels, F., Mcmeekin, A., Mylan, J. & Southerton, D., Sep 2015, In : Global Environmental Change. 34, p. 1-12 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.04.013
  2. Published

    A socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transitions: introducing the multi-level perspective into transport studies

    Geels, F. W., Sep 2012, In : Journal of Transport Geography. 24, p. 471-482 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.01.021
  3. Published

    Aligning integrated assessment modelling with socio-technical transition insights: An application to low-carbon energy scenario analysis in Europe

    Van Sluisveld, M. A. E., Hof, A. F., Carrara, S., Geels, F. W., Nilsson, M., Rogge, K., Turnheim, B. & Van Vuuren, D. P., 2018, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.10.024
  4. Published

    An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

    Köhler, J., Geels, F. W., Kern, F., Markard, J., Wieczorek, A., Alkemade, F., Avelino, F., Bergek, A., Boons, F., Fünfschilling, L., Hess, D., Holtz, G., Hyysalo, S., Jenkins, K., Kivimaa, P., Martiskainen, M., McMeekin, A., Mühlemeier, M. S., Nykvist, B., Onsongo, E. & 9 others, Pel, B., Raven, R., Rohracher, H., Sandén, B., Schot, J., Sovacool, B., Turnheim, B., Welch, D. & Wells, P., 2019, In : Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2019.01.004
  5. Published

    Analysing the breakthrough of rock 'n' roll (1930-1970) Multi-regime interaction and reconfiguration in the multi-level perspective

    Geels, F. W., Oct 2007, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 74, 8, p. 1411-1431 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2006.07.008
  6. Published

    Automobility in Transition? A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport

    Geels, F. W., Kemp, R., Dudley, G. & G. Lyons, G., 2012, New York: Routledge.

    Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

  7. Published

    Bridging analytical approaches for low-carbon transitions

    Geels, F., Berkhout, F. & Van Vuuren, D., 9 May 2016, In : Nature Climate Change. 6, 6, p. 576-583 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2980
  8. Published

    Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry (1979-2018): An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model

    Penna, C. C. R. & Geels, F. W., 2015, In : Research Policy. 44, 5, p. 1029-1048 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.11.010
  9. Published

    Co-evolution of technology and society: The transition in water supply and personal hygiene in the Netherlands (1850-1930) - A case study in multi-level perspective

    Geels, F., Aug 2005, In : Technology in Society. 27, 3, p. 363-397 34 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2005.04.008
  10. Published

    Co-evolutionary and multi-level dynamics in transitions: The transformation of aviation systems and the shift from propeller to turbojet (1930-1970)

    Geels, F. W., Sep 2006, In : Technovation. 26, 9, p. 999-1016 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2005.08.010
  11. Published

    Comment on 'Techno therapy or nurtured niches?' by Hommels et al. [Res. Policy 36 (7) (2007)]

    Geels, F. W. & Schot, J., Sep 2007, In : Research Policy. 36, 7, p. 1100-1101 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2007.07.004
  12. Published

    Conditions and intervention strategies for the deliberate acceleration of socio-technical transitions: lessons from a comparative multi-level analysis of two historical case studies in Dutch and Danish heating

    Roberts, C. & Geels, F. W., 2019, In : Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2019.1584286
  13. Published

    Conditions for politically accelerated transitions: Historical institutionalism, the multi-level perspective, and two historical case studies in transport and agriculture

    Roberts, C. & Geels, F. W., 2019, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.11.019
  14. Published

    Cultural enthusiasm, resistance and the societal embedding of new technologies: Psychotropic drugs in the 20th century

    Geels, F. W., Pieters, T. & Snelders, S., Mar 2007, In : Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 19, 2, p. 145-165 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09537320601168052
  15. Published

    Cultural legitimacy and framing struggles in innovation journeys: A cultural-performative perspective and a case study of Dutch nuclear energy (1945-1986)

    Geels, F. W. & Verhees, B., Jul 2011, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 78, 6, p. 910-930 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.12.004
  16. Published

    Die Realisierung soziotechnischer Transitionspfade: Eine reformulierte Typologie und eine vergleichende Mehrebenenanalyse der deutschen und britischen CO2-Reduzierungspolitik im Stromsektor (1990-2014)

    Geels, F., Kern, F., Fuchs, G. & Mylan, J., 2017, Die Energiewende verstehen – orientieren – gestalten: Erkenntnisse aus der Helmholz-Allianz ENERGY-TRANS. Schippl, J., Grunwald, A. & Renn, O. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG, p. 53-112

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  17. Published

    Disruption and low-carbon system transformation: Progress and new challenges in socio-technical transitions research and the Multi-Level Perspective

    Geels, F., Mar 2018, In : Energy Research & Social Science. 37, p. 224-231 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.010
  18. Published

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

    Geels, F. W. & Kemp, R., Nov 2007, In : Technology in Society. 29, 4, p. 441-455 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2007.08.009
  19. Published

    Eco-innovation and retailers in milk, beef and bread chains: Enriching environmental supply chain management with insights from innovation studies

    Mylan, J., Geels, F., Gee, S., Mcmeekin, A. & Foster, C., 2015, In : Journal of Cleaner Production. 107, p. 20-30 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.065
  20. Published

    Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges

    Bruno, T., Frans, B., Geels, F., Andries, H., Mcmeekin, A., Bjorn, N. & Detlef, V. V., Nov 2015, In : Global Environmental Change. 35, p. 239-253 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.08.010
  21. Published

    Exploring sustainability transitions in the electricity sector with socio-technical pathways

    Verbong, G. P. J. & Geels, F. W., Oct 2010, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 77, 8, p. 1214-1221 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.04.008
  22. Published

    Failed technology futures: Pitfalls and lessons from a historical survey

    Geels, F. W. & Smit, W. A., 2000, In : Futures. 32, 9, p. 867-885 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/S0016-3287(00)00036-7
  23. Published

    Feelings of discontent and the promise of middle range theory for STS: Examples from technology dynamics

    Geels, F. W., Nov 2007, In : Science Technology and Human Values. 32, 6, p. 627-651 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1177/0162243907303597
  24. Published

    Foundational ontologies and multi-paradigm analysis, applied to the socio-technical transition from mixed farming to intensive pig husbandry (1930-1980)

    Geels, F. W., Oct 2009, In : Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 21, 7, p. 805-832 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09537320903182280
  25. Published

    From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory

    Geels, F. W., Sep 2004, In : Research Policy. 33, 6-7, p. 897-920 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.01.015
  26. Published

    Further reflections on the temporality of energy transitions: A response to critics

    Sovacool, B. K. & Geels, F., 2017, In : Energy Research & Social Science.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2016.08.013
  27. Published

    Incumbent actors, guided search paths, and landmark projects in infra-system transitions: Re-thinking Strategic Niche Management with a case study of French tramway diffusion (1971-2016)

    Turnheim, B. & Geels, F., 2019, In : Research Policy.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.02.002
  28. Published

    Local and global dynamics in technological development: A socio-cognitive perspective on knowledge flows and lessons from reinforced concrete

    Geels, F. & Deuten, J. J., May 2006, In : Science and Public Policy. 33, 4, p. 265-275 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.3152/147154306781778984
  29. Published

    Low-carbon transition via system reconfiguration? A socio-technical whole system analysis of passenger mobility in Great Britain (1990–2016)

    Geels, F. W., Dec 2018, In : Energy Research & Social Science. 46, p. 86-102 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.07.008
  30. Published

    Major system change through stepwise reconfiguration: A multi-level analysis of the transformation of American factory production (1850-1930)

    Geels, F. W., Nov 2006, In : Technology in Society. 28, 4, p. 445-476 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2006.09.006
  31. Published

    Mapping the winds of whole system reconfiguration: Analysing low-carbon transformations across production, distribution and consumption in the UK electricity system (1990-2016)

    Mcmeekin, A., Geels, F. & Hodson, M., 2019, In : Research Policy.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.12.007
  32. Published

    Multi-dimensional struggles in the greening of industry: A dialectic issue lifecycle model and case study

    Penna, C. C. R. & Geels, F. W., Jul 2012, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 79, 6, p. 999-1020 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.09.006
  33. Published

    Multi-niche analysis of dynamics and policies in Dutch renewable energy innovation journeys (1970-2006): Hype-cycles, closed networks and technology-focused learning

    Verbong, G., Geels, F. W. & Raven, R., 2008, In : Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 20, 5, p. 555-573 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09537320802292719
  34. Published

    Niches in evolutionary theories of technical change: A critical survey of the literature

    Schot, J. & Geels, F. W., Oct 2007, In : Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 17, 5, p. 605-622 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1007/s00191-007-0057-5
  35. Published

    Non-linearity and expectations in niche-development trajectories: Ups and downs in Dutch biogas development (1973-2003)

    Geels, F. & Raven, R., Jul 2006, In : Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 18, 3-4, p. 375-392 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09537320600777143
  36. Published

    Normative contestation in transitions 'in the making': Animal welfare concerns and system innovation in pig husbandry

    Elzen, B., Geels, F. W., Leeuwis, C. & Van Mierlo, B., Mar 2011, In : Research Policy. 40, 2, p. 263-275 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.09.018
  37. Published

    Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective

    Geels, F. W., May 2010, In : Research Policy. 39, 4, p. 495-510 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.022
  38. Published

    Processes and patterns in transitions and system innovations: Refining the co-evolutionary multi-level perspective

    Geels, F. W., Jul 2005, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 72, 6, p. 681-696 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2004.08.014
  39. Published

    Public Storylines in the British Transition from Rail to Road Transport (1896–2000): Discursive Struggles in the Multi-Level Perspective

    Roberts, C. & Geels, F. W., 2018, In : Science as Culture. 27, 4, p. 513-542 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2018.1519532
  40. Published

    Reconceptualising the co-evolution of firms-in-industries and their environments: Developing an inter-disciplinary Triple Embeddedness Framework

    Geels, F. W., Mar 2014, In : Research Policy. 43, 2, p. 261-277 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2013.10.006
  41. Published

    Reconfiguring Urban Sustainability Transitions, Analysing Multiplicity

    Hodson, M., Geels, F. & Mcmeekin, A., 17 Feb 2017, In : Sustainability. 9, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.3390/su9020299
  42. Published

    Reducing energy demand through low carbon innovation: A sociotechnical transitions perspective and thirteen research debates

    Geels, F., Schwanen, T., Sorrell, S., Jenkins, K. & Sovacool, B., Jun 2018, In : Energy Research & Social Science. 40, p. 23-35 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.003
  43. Published

    Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: Lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913-1997)

    Turnheim, B. & Geels, F. W., Nov 2012, In : Energy Policy. 50, p. 35-49 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.060
  44. Published

    Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective

    Geels, F. W., 1 Sep 2014, In : Theory, Culture & Society: explorations in critical social science . 31, 5, p. 21-40 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1177/0263276414531627
  45. Published

    Sequence and alignment of external pressures in industry destabilisation: Understanding the downfall of incumbent utilities in the German energy transition (1998-2015)

    Kungl, G. & Geels, F. W., 2017, In : Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2017.05.003
  46. Published

    Societal problems and industry reorientation: Elaborating the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model and a case study of car safety in the USA (1900-1995)

    Geels, F. W. & Penna, C. CR., 2015, In : Research Policy. 44, 1, p. 67-82 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.09.006
  47. Published

    Socio-cognitive evolution and co-evolution in competing technical trajectories: Biogas development in Denmark (1970-2002)

    Geels, F. W. & Raven, R. P. J. M., Feb 2007, In : International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. 14, 1, p. 63-77 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1080/13504500709469708
  48. Published

    Socio-cognitive evolution in niche development: Comparative analysis of biogas development in Denmark and the Netherlands (1973-2004)

    Raven, R. P. J. M. & Geels, F. W., Feb 2010, In : Technovation. 30, 2, p. 87-99 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.08.006
  49. Published

    Socio-technical scenarios as a methodological tool to explore social and political feasibility in low-carbon transitions: Bridging computer models and the multi-level perspective in UK electricity generation (2010–2050)

    Geels, F., Mcmeekin, A. & Pfluger, B., 2018, In : Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.04.001
  50. Published

    Sociotechnical scenarios as a new policy tool to explore system innovations: Co-evolution of technology and society in the electricity domain

    P.S. Hofman, B. E., Elzen, B. E. & Geels, F. W., 2004, In : Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice. 6, 2, p. 344-360 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    DOI: 10.5172/impp.2004.6.2.344
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