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Caetano Penna

Biography

Caetano Penna is a Senior Research Fellow in Global Sustainability Transitions at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges. He is currently on leave from a tenured position as Adjunct Professor of Technology and Industry Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Within the Deep Transitions research project, he is involved in research on scenario methodologies and sustainability investing. His main research interests are mission-oriented and transformative innovation policies, technological and sustainability transitions, and the financing of innovation and sustainable development. For more information follow @digitano on Twitter or send an email to c.penna@uu.nl.

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Publications

The Promise Of Transformative Investment: Mapping The Field Of Sustainability Investing

Caetano Penna, Ed Steinmueller, Johan Schot
This paper addresses the question: How can private finance be mobilized for sociotechnical sustainability transitions? In answering this question, maps the sustainability investment literature, which leads to four propositions: (1) The literature on sustainability investing coevolved with corporate social responsibility theory and with the practice and events of the field, revealing four distinctive waves of…
Blog - November 15, 2021

Transformative Investment for Impact in the 21st Century towards the Sustainability Revolution and Beyond COP 26

Geraldine Bloomfield, Johan Schot, Caetano Penna, Ed Steinmueller, Jack Davies
    This blog reviews a few new ideas on Transformative Investment research from the Deep Transitions Futures project. The Deep Transitions Futures project is run by an interlinking team of researchers and science communicators from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, and the Utrecht University Centre for…