TY - JOUR
T1 - Matching Supply and Demand
T2 - A Typology of Climate Services
AU - Visscher, Klaasjan
AU - Stegmaier, Peter
AU - Damm, Andrea
AU - Hamaker-Taylor, Robin
AU - Harjanne, Atte
AU - Giordano, Raffaele
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No 730500 (EU-MACS). We are grateful to the guest-editors and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Climate services bear the promise of becoming a new, remunerative market of knowledge-intensive services. Although several climate services have been developed, there has been little reflection on the kinds of services such a new market could encompass, and the ways in which formats can be created that match supply and demand. Using a research approach based on Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA), this article presents a typology of climate services, with types called ‘Maps & Apps’, ‘Expert Analysis’, ‘Climate-inclusive Consulting’, and ‘Sharing Practices’. This typology, which is conceptually elaborated and empirically illustrated, structures the variety in current and potential climate services. It provides a framework for the development of climate services and helps users and producers to explore and articulate alternatives for matching supply and demand. On the basis of our analysis we also point towards a more differentiated and broader conceptualization of climate services.
AB - Climate services bear the promise of becoming a new, remunerative market of knowledge-intensive services. Although several climate services have been developed, there has been little reflection on the kinds of services such a new market could encompass, and the ways in which formats can be created that match supply and demand. Using a research approach based on Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA), this article presents a typology of climate services, with types called ‘Maps & Apps’, ‘Expert Analysis’, ‘Climate-inclusive Consulting’, and ‘Sharing Practices’. This typology, which is conceptually elaborated and empirically illustrated, structures the variety in current and potential climate services. It provides a framework for the development of climate services and helps users and producers to explore and articulate alternatives for matching supply and demand. On the basis of our analysis we also point towards a more differentiated and broader conceptualization of climate services.
KW - Climate services
KW - Constructive Technology Assessment
KW - Market development
KW - Service innovation
KW - Users
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100136
DO - 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100136
M3 - Article
SN - 2405-8807
VL - 17
JO - Climate Services
JF - Climate Services
M1 - 100136
ER -