Johan Schot is Professor of Global History and Sustainability Transitions at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges and one of the founders of the Sustainability Transitions research field. Through experimentation, Schot enables policy makers, funders and investors to recognise, implement and evaluate opportunities for system transformation. His two flagship projects are the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium and the Deep Transitions Lab. To learn more, browse through Johan Schot’s publications, Twitter, LinkedIn or subscribe to his newsletter.

Latest publications, blogs, and TALKS

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New documentary sheds light on the port of Rotterdam

26th Mar 2025
Written by Emilee Schuman  Coming this April to screens across the Netherlands, Kano aan Zee is a documentary that brings...
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Podcast with Johan Schot

3rd Feb 2025
Can President Donald Trump stop the transition to a new, CO2-neutral world with “America First”? Johan Schot doesn’t think so....
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Operationalizing transformative capacity: State policy and the financing of sustainable energy transitions in developing countries (2024)

We explored the capacity of the state to facilitate financing for sustainable energy transitions in a developing country context. We...
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Johan Schot (2021)
See Prof Johan Schot Literature List January 2025 and also please visit Google Scholar. To stay in touch sign-up here for notifications...
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Transformative Outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy

Ghosh, Kivimaa, Ramirez, Schot & Torrens 2021
Abstract The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand significant transformations in economies and societies....
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Three Frames for Innovation Policy: R&D, Systems of Innovation and Transformative Change

Johan Schot and W. Edward Steinmueller (2018)
Science, technology and innovation (STI) policy is shaped by persistent framings that arise from historical context. Two established frames are...

Johan Schot's Latest key milestone was launching AN investment philosophy for the second deep transition

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