Governing Green Transformative Innovation withTyler Hansen, Research Associate, Dartmouth College

About the Talk
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: Conversations with Early-Career Energy Researchers 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.
About the Speaker
Tyler Hansen is a Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Studies, advised by Professor Elizabeth Wilson. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Wind and Energy Systems. Tyler's research revolves around the economics, political economy, and governance of clean energy transitions, with a particular focus on offshore wind energy. Some of his current projects include a case study on the Danish energy islands to explore the challenges to governing green socio-technical transformations, the development of a supply chain approach for estimation of local economic benefits from wind energy, stakeholder engagement in the offshore wind sector to specify key challenges for offshore wind development in the U.S., and a review and assessment of the claim that climate stabilization requires economic degrowth.