Yesterday I participated in the annual research day of the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS). I presented a second proposal that was recently granted by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and is about the role of sustainability experiments in rapidly developing Asian countries such as India and Thailand.
What does it mean for a theory on protective space dynamics in niche building? For one thing, protective space dynamics matter and are under researched. It also exemplifies that protective measures are never straightforward and can enable but also constrain experimentation. Indeed, a challenging thought is that in certain contexts public protective measures are perceived as limiting entrepreneurship, and that a straightforward market-based approach is more desirable.
Luckily I could reply that we have another interesting project where exactly these kind of questions are central to the research.