Missions like ‘a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050’ are used increasingly to tackle societal challenges like climate change. However, no analytical frameworks currently exist that can adequately evaluate the impacts of such challenge-led missions. The Mission-oriented Innovation Systems (MIS) approach captures all social, technological, and other factors that affect the success of developing and spreading the use of mission solutions and in this case are applied to the Dutch mission for sustainable maritime shipping. Wesseling & Meijerhof 2023.

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