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Tyler Hansen, Research Associate in Environmental Studies at Dartmouth, will give the first talk of the winter ’24 New Energy Series, "Governing Green Transformative Innovation: The Case of the Danish Energy Islands." 

Transformative innovation is the process of developing and implementing new ideas that lead to structural societal change and green transformative innovation directs the new ideas and structural change at the myriad challenges to climate stabilization. In this New Energy talk, Tyler Hansen, Research Associate at Dartmouth College, will discuss a recent paper that takes as its starting point that governments have played, and will continue to play, a massive role in transformative innovation. In this paper, the research team applies one emerging approach to green transformative innovation policy and governance—mission-oriented innovation policy—to a qualitative case study on the Danish energy islands, an early-stage green innovation project with the potential to transform offshore wind deployment, transmission planning and operation, and power-to-X development (conversion of green power to hydrogen and other chemicals). The paper then focuses on identifying and understanding the challenges for governance, and use our results to inform the development of the Danish energy islands, as well as the mission-oriented innovation policy literature.

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