Few sectors in the global economy need deep decarbonization as much as heavy industry, which is currently the largest and fastest growing source of global carbon emissions. Based on an original dataset of 111 expert interviews and 52 site visits, this paper asks: what sociotechnical pathways, capabilities, and regional innovation systems are emerging to support industrial decarbonization? It combines and applies insights from evolutionary economic geography and transitions studies, such as sociotechnical capabilities and learning, as well as spatial frameworks such as challenge-oriented regional innovation systems (CoRIS) and green industrial restructuring. It utilizes these collective concepts of pathways, capabilities and CoRIS to explore the organizational and technological, individual, and systems level dimensions of industrial decarbonization efforts ongoing across Great Britain. We find that industrial net-zero clusters, spatial and technological proximities are being effectively leveraged, especially through new forms of networking, collaboration, and partnerships. CoRIS provides the basis for greater reflection on perennial transitions issues, both and clusters, related to incumbency and innovation, in addition to spotlighting emergent issues such as light versus deep green restructuring and incremental versus transformative change. In simpler terms, industrial decarbonization unfolds as a multi-scalar process. Industrial decarbonization exhibits both incremental and transformative patterns of change. Industrial decarbonization lastly involves dynamic processes that coevolve across a spectrum of sociotechnical attributes.

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“哦是的！ “净零”：英国工业脱碳的社会技术能力和区域创新系统


全球经济中很少有部门像重工业那样需要深度脱碳，而重工业是目前全球最大、增长最快的碳排放源。基于 111 名专家访谈和 52 次实地考察的原始数据集，本文提出以下问题：正在出现哪些社会技术途径、能力和区域创新系统来支持工业脱碳？它结合并应用了演化经济地理学和转型研究的见解，例如社会技术能力和学习，以及空间框架，例如面向挑战的区域创新系统（CoRIS）和绿色产业重组。它利用这些路径、能力和 CoRIS 的集体概念来探索英国各地正在进行的工业脱碳工作的组织和技术、个人和系统层面。我们发现，工业净零集群、空间和技术邻近性正在得到有效利用，特别是通过新形式的网络、协作和伙伴关系。 CoRIS 为更好地反思与现有和创新相关的常年转型问题（包括转型问题和集群问题）提供了基础，此外还强调了诸如浅色与深绿色重组以及渐进式与变革性变革等新兴问题。简而言之，工业脱碳是一个多尺度过程。工业脱碳呈现出渐进式和变革性的变化模式。最后，工业脱碳涉及一系列社会技术属性共同演化的动态过程。