ABSTRACT
Co-evolutionary modelling has been boosted in recent years where research has focused on transitioning beyond the fossil fuels-based industrial paradigm towards a more knowledge-based ‘green economy’ embracing renewable energy, smart recycling and other clean technologies as dominant forms of production and consumption (Eriksson et al. 2010). These do not simply happen but are a product of the interaction between innovation and regulation. Any transition to a ‘post-hydrocarbon’ paradigm will occur first in experimental market ‘niches’ that evolve into ‘regimes’ where renewable energies together challenge hydrocarbons in the market. A weakness is there is no ‘spatiality’, yet we know some regions lead while others lag.
