Shaping innovation in governance? Inducements, opportunities and limitations for engaging with governance in the making

Thursday 31 May & Friday 1 June 2012
Technische Universität Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin

 

Call for Papers (.pdf)
Preliminary programme (.pdf)

 

Preliminary Programme

 

Thursday 31 May

 

9:00 – 9.50
Welcome & introduction
Jan-Peter Voß & Carsten Mann, Technische Universität Berlin

9.50 – 12.00
Keynote dialogue
Frank Fischer, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Sustainable Development as Transformative Learning: Exploring the Cognitive and Cultural Barriers to Reflexivity

Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, UK
From Sustainability, through Diversity to Transformation: Towards More Reflexive Governance

12.00 – 13.00
Lunch

13.00 – 15.00
Session I: Discourses of innovation in governance
Chair: Nina Amelung, Technische Universität Berlin

Susanne Maria Weber, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Governing the Future? Dispositives of Creativity and organized strategies of innovation
Discussant: Thomas Pfister, Zeppelin Universität

Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda, Lancaster University
Derly Yohanna Sánchez Vargas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Knowledge and Politics of the Public: Elements for analyzing the rise of social innovation agenda in policy discourse in Colombia
Discussant: Sonja van der Arend, Technische Universiteit Delft

Franziska Wolff, Öko-Institut e.V.
The discourse on market-based instruments and ist repercussions on practices of international environmental governance
Discussant: Dieter Plehwe, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin

15.00 – 15.30
Break

15.30 – 16.50
Session II: Innovative designs in practice: politics
Chair: Carsten Mann, Technische Universität Berlin

Katharina Welle, University of Sussex
Practices of innovating governance
Discussant: Arie Rip, Universiteit Twente

Bonno Pel, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Reconfiguring what network? (Road) network sychronization in Dutch traffic management
Discussant: Jörg Potthast, Technische Universität Berlin

16.50 – 17.10
Break

17.10 – 18.30
Session III: Innnovative designs in practice: context
Chair: Jan-Peter Voß, Technische Universität Berlin

Mathias Großklaus, Freie Universität Berlin
Local Actors' Innovative Responses to External Governance. Appropriation as a Conceptual Frame
Discussant: to be confirmed

Kathrin Böhling, Technische Universität München
Innovative forest governance in the Bavarian Alps: Moving between rhetoric and actual practice
Discussant: Alejandro Esguerra, Freie Universität Berlin

18.30 –
Poster flashlight, poster session & reception

Jaap Rozema: Examining Reflexive Governance and Public Advocacy in Environmental Impact Assessment

Julia Hildermeier: Governing Sustainability in the EU: The Making of European Green Car Politics

Pauline Riousset: Evidence-based policy as a principle of governance: conditions of success

Dominik Reusser: Communication of uncertainty: the relevance of decision contexts

Lanka Horstink: Food Sovereignty and ecological democracy: a way out of the "green developmentalism" paradigm?

Sabine Stuart-Hill: Pragmatic Solutions for South Africa's water sector by understanding governance and designing innovations

Sonja van der Arend: Governance innovation from below. How professional NGOs invented and introduced a new mode of spatial planning

Justus Dreyling: Global union federations and transnational governance. Organizational determinants of strategic innovation

Elke Herrfahrdt: Institutional resilience of governance regimes: The role of continuity and change

Yuti Fatimah: Narrative in Governance: Case of Bio-fuel in Indonesia

 

 

Friday 1 June

 

9.00 – 10.20
Session IV: Agency and dynamics of innovation in governance
Chair: Cornelius Schubert, Technische Universität Berlin

Michael Huber, Universität Bielefeld
Risk management and the innovation of governance
Discussant: Holger Straßheim, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Janet Merkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Creating structure from talk? On boundaries, obstacles and failure in new forms of creative governance, or when too much novelty hampers innovation in governance
Discussant: Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Technische Universität Berlin

10.20 – 10.40
Break

10.40 – 12.00
Session V: Agency and dynamics of innovation in governance
Chair: Arno Simons, Technische Universität Berlin

Joern Hoppmann, ETH Zurich
Compulsive Policy-Making – The Evolution of the German Feed-in Tariff System for Solar Photovoltaic Power
Discussant: Dörte Ohlhorst, Freie Universität Berlin

Carsten Mann & Jan-Peter Voß, Technische Universität Berlin
Policy Foresight – Conceptual ideas on how to engage with dynamics of policy instrument design
Discussant: Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia

12.00 – 13.00
Lunch

13.00 – 14.20
Session VI (two parallel streams): Exploring cases from different fields

(a) Shaping innovation in the governance of technological innovation
Chair: Jan-Peter Voß, Technische Universität Berlin

Seyed Mohamad Sadegh Emamian, University of Edinburgh
Practices of innovating governance
Discussant: Ross Beveridge, Leibnitz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung

Ante Galich, Université de Luxembourg
Joint Technology Initiatives
Discussant: Cornelius Schubert, Technische Universität Berlin

(b) Shaping innovation in the governance of risky objects
Chair: Carsten Mann, Technische Universität Berlin

Rebecca-Lee Korinek & Sylvia Veit, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
An innovative design on scientific policy advice in practice. Studying the changing patterns of interaction in German food safety administration
Discussant: to be confirmed

Anne Bergmans & Jan-Willem Barbier, Universiteit Antwerpen
Co-designing a cave: a partnership approach to developing a radioactive waste repository concept
Discussant: to be confirmed

14.20 – 14.40
Break

14.40 – 15.30
Concluding discussion (Jan-Peter Voß & Carsten Mann)