This requires, they suggest, a more integrated understanding of the relationship between industrial transformation and sustainability transitions. The authors provide a tentative articulation of such a perspective by recombining insights from the fields of Industrial Dynamics and Transition Studies. They point to three issues that can serve as starting points for developing such a perspective and argue why those merit more attention in transition studies. These include: (a) attention to the diversity of sectors and firms involved in, and affected by, transitions through inter-sectoral linkages, (b) how existing knowledge bases influence the direction and scope of transitions, and (c) policy challenges associated with parallel transitions in multiple sectors that constitute economy-wide processes of structural change.
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