複雑性を乗り越え、気候変動に対処する技術革新を推進する

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🔬研究者:Provides a qualitative framework for studying climate innovation leadership, useful for further research on organizational dynamics in GX.

🏢実務担当者:Offers practical themes and strategies for leaders in climate tech firms to foster innovation and resilience.

🏛政策担当者:Highlights the importance of ecosystem facilitation and ethical financing, informing policies that support climate innovation.

Climate technology innovation encompasses the development and application of products, business models, services, and technologies designed to mitigate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance sustainability. This PhD research investigates the central question: How do leaders of climate technology businesses in the United Kingdom drive technological innovation to address climate change? This research draws on systems thinking, which focuses on organisations as dynamic systems, examines feedback loops, and fosters a desire to build long-term learning and resilience within organisations. Alongside systems thinking, I use complexity theory to interrogate how leaders navigate complex contexts and foster technological innovation for both mitigation and adaptation. RESEARCH AIM: To examine how leaders of climate technology businesses in the United Kingdom drive technological innovation to address climate change. Specific Objectives 1. To identify the primary challenges and complexities faced by leaders in managing technological innovation for climate change mitigation and adaptation. 2. To examine how leaders utilise complexity theory and systems thinking to address uncertainty, interdependence, and unforeseen changes within innovation processes. 3. To identify and evaluate leadership strategies, behaviours, and practices that facilitate technological innovation in climate-related contexts. 4. To assess how leadership enables the integration of scientific knowledge, policy, and the practical application of climate innovations. 5. To propose recommendations that could enable leaders to more effectively promote innovation for climate change mitigation and adaptation. METHODOLOGY: Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 13 climate-technology leaders were conducted over a period of one year. RESULTS: Effective leaders deliberately shift away from linear, profit-oriented models. Instead, they manage organized complexity through seven interrelated themes: (a) Commitment to strong values and purpose, including equity, stewardship, and long-term thinking. (b) Collaboration with stakeholders and the development of strategic partnerships, (c) Implementation of data-driven research and development that emphasizes incremental achievements and scientific rigor, (d) Active resistance to funding pressures that are misaligned with organisational values and avoidance of greenwashing through the adoption of ethical financing, (e) Active facilitation of ecosystem networks that bridge academia, industry, and policy, (f) Interdisciplinary integration of biology, social sciences, and systems thinking, and (g) Ensuring that founders possess experience and expertise aligned with the markets they serve. These themes generate dynamic feedback loops that are characteristic of complex adaptive systems. This process fosters continuous innovation and resilience, rather than simple mechanical optimization. The findings support a complexity-based model of climate technology leadership, in which human values, collaboration, and learning enable founders to transform multiple challenges into positive environmental outcomes.

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