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Welcome to the website of KSI (Dutch Knowledge Network for System innovation and Transitions!
From 2004 KSI (a co-production lead by the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Technical University Eindhoven and the University Amsterdam) developed a huge number of practical projects and research programmes that focussed on the proces of transitions in society. That resulted in a new field of science: transition knowledge. KSI compromises over 80 researchers from a dozen Dutch university's and research institutes with specific expertise of transitions and system innovations. They examined how to make a much needed transformation towards a sustainable society. Among politicians, entrepreneurs and scientists the sense of urgency grows that this process is one of the greatest challenges for the next decades.
From international perspective Dutch science is considered the innovative frontrunner of transition theory and transition management. The activities of KSI emphasize this position. During the last six years the network has made a reputation all over the globe. Now the programme ended it is time to present the scientific legacy of KSI. The knowledge and expertise which resulted from KSI's scientific and practical activities is compiled in four websites. www.ksinetwork.nl contains a survey of all projects, conferences, meetings, programmes, publications, dissertations and thesis from students and scientists who are involved with KSI.
www.sustainabilitytransitions.com is a site about a series of scientific volumes, a recent projecy of KSI and the English publisher Routledge. At the website www.transitiepraktijk.nl CCT lends governments, organisations and companies a helping hand that want to think and act sustainable. www.transitionsnetwork.org is the international site from KSI. A platform for scientists from all parts of the world.
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Windows on the future
Windows on the future The intellectual heritage of KSI finds it's way in several new activities. In may and june 2011 two new volumes of the book series Sustainability Transitions (a co-production from the English publisher Routledge and KSI) will be published. Followed bij two other volumes in the autumn of 2011. They contain new scientific research material about mobility, food production, energy and health. An other milestone is the appearance of the new journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (EIST) that will be published by the Elsevier Editorial System. The magazine is a platform for reporting studies, reviews, analysis, surveys en policy briefings about a wide range of aspects of system and regime transitions. For more information about the Routledge series see w...
Transition song
Students from the Rock Academy in Tilburg and scientist join hands for a sustainable world. That is the major idea from the ‘Transition Song' that was released June 2010. The song is a composition of two students from the Rock Academy, named Bas Trippe and Ivo Schot. By order of KSI they translated the scientific views about system innovations and transitions into a rock anthem. Trippe and Schot recorded their song with fellow musicians from the Rock Academy. In the ‘Transition Song' science meets symphonic rock! The CD was presented at the Final Conference of KSI on the third and fourth of june 2010 at Rotterdam. It was part of the book Transitieagenda voor Nederland , written by Jan Rotmans, one of the KSI-directors. Do you want to listen how ‘Transit...