Ecosystem governance for sustainability transition

Sustainability transitions require new forms of collaboration that enable the development of sustainability-improving solutions. Ecolabor research project investigates the governance of multi-stakeholder ecosystems to support innovation in alignment with sustainable development goals.

The project focuses on the challenges and tools of ecosystem governance. The project also investigates the role of legal frameworks and the public sector in facilitating the creation of new models for multi-stakeholder collaboration.

The project combines the perspectives of law, policy and management research to develop new insights into the governance of sustainability-oriented ecosystems, and identifies changes needed in current law and policy regimes to support ecosystemic innovation strategies.

Collaborators

The project is a collaboration between the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law and Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business. The project is funded by the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia).