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 +==Tipping toward Sustainability: Emerging pathways of transformation==
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 Westley, Francis et al. 2011. "Tipping toward Sustainability: Emerging pathways of transformation.” //AMBIO// 40:762–780. Westley, Francis et al. 2011. "Tipping toward Sustainability: Emerging pathways of transformation.” //AMBIO// 40:762–780.
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 <blockquote>We argue that a complex system perspective that recognizes the dynamic links between the social, ecological, and technological subsystems is needed to understand what we see as the paradox of innovation: innovation is both a contributing cause for our current unsustainable trajectory and our hope for tipping in new more resilient directions. (763)</blockquote> <blockquote>We argue that a complex system perspective that recognizes the dynamic links between the social, ecological, and technological subsystems is needed to understand what we see as the paradox of innovation: innovation is both a contributing cause for our current unsustainable trajectory and our hope for tipping in new more resilient directions. (763)</blockquote>
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 <blockquote>First, innovation gradually became supply driven rather than demand-driven. Today, interesting new ideas or tools spawn companies that invest in marketing to stimulate product demand. ‘‘Need’’ is created. Second, the new ideas or tools are in themselves driven by the availability of pre- existing technology platforms. (766)</blockquote> <blockquote>First, innovation gradually became supply driven rather than demand-driven. Today, interesting new ideas or tools spawn companies that invest in marketing to stimulate product demand. ‘‘Need’’ is created. Second, the new ideas or tools are in themselves driven by the availability of pre- existing technology platforms. (766)</blockquote>
  
-<blockquote>Change demands innovation across multiple scales. At the macro institutional scale, we need to transform our global and national institutions, from a pattern that supports environmental destruction to one that favors long-term resilience and sustainability. At the meso or problem domain scale, we need to create opportunities to incorpo- rate novelty and innovation. At the microscale of individ- uals and small groups, where invention originates and where the early source of support for ‘‘disruptive’’ or ‘‘catalytic’’ innovation may be found (Christensen et al. 2006), we must foster mechanisms and agency that can connect a healthy supply of invention, with the institutional opportunities that emerge.</blockquote> +<blockquote>Change demands innovation across multiple scales. At the macro institutional scale, we need to transform our global and national institutions, from a pattern that supports environmental destruction to one that favors long-term resilience and sustainability. At the meso or problem domain scale, we need to create opportunities to incorpo- rate novelty and innovation. At the microscale of individ- uals and small groups, where invention originates and where the early source of support for ‘‘disruptive’’ or ‘‘catalytic’’ innovation may be found (Christensen et al. 2006), we must foster mechanisms and agency that can connect a healthy supply of invention, with the institutional opportunities that emerge. (767)</blockquote>
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-<blockquote>The emerging work on successful social innovation focuses on the dynamics of scaling up new ways of thinking, new processes for action and decision making, new designs for behavior and new social programs (inventionsfor greater durability and impact.</blockquote>+
  
 +<blockquote>The emerging work on successful social innovation focuses on the dynamics of scaling up new ways of thinking, new processes for action and decision making, new designs for behavior and new social programs (inventions) for greater durability and impact. (767)</blockquote>
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