Euspri konferenz 2012, KarlsruheTrack: New Methods – Sustainability Transitions

Nicolaj Tofte Brenneche, Phd studentCopenhagen Business School

Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy

The quest for mission-oriented science-society relations

Transition cartographies

• Cartography: Implied relation between what counts as scientific knowledge and the organization of knowledge production

Isabelle Stengers: Knowledge ecologies and reciprocal captureKarin Knorr-Cetina: Epistemic cultures, machineries of knowledge productionGilles Deleuze: Virtual-actual causalities

• Energy transitions: Mapping activities are extensive. Which kinds of maps can organize systemic innovation?

Topology and systemic innovation

Knowledge creation and topology: Demonstratorium“Smart cities”Strategic partnerships (H2020)

Cartographies Topology

Challenges for (the study of) policy

• What is “an entrepreneurial university”?

• The challenge of systemic innovation in energy streches far, far beyond commercialization of technologies.

• Disconnection between emerging practices (knowledge topologies) and the typology of the entrepreneurial university

• Organizational entrepreneurship.