Print Email Facebook Twitter Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework Title Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework Author Goyal, N. (TU Delft Organisation & Governance) Iychettira, K.K. (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Harvard Kennedy School) Date 2022 Abstract As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a disaggregation of values and value change based on a four-stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF), a conceptual lens increasingly used for explaining policy innovation in sociotechnical transitions. Specifically, we posit that the values that ‘govern’ problem framing, policy design, political decision making, and technological diffusion can evolve relatively independently, potentially leading to value conflict. We apply this framework to the ongoing case of the market-based economic dispatch of electricity (MBED) policy in the Indian energy transition using content analysis. We find that the MBED scheme—with its emphasis on efficiency (problem), economic principles (policy), low-cost dispatch (technology), and centralization (politics)—attempts value change in each stream. Each instance of value change is, however, widely contested, with the ensuing value conflicts resulting in significant opposition to this policy innovation. We conclude that a disaggregation of values based on the MSF can facilitate an analysis of value change and value conflict in sociotechnical transitions and lay the foundation for systematically studying the relationships among technological change, value change, and policy change. Subject Indian energy transitionMarket-based economic dispatch of electricity (MBED)Multiple streams framework (MSF)Policy innovationPolicy processRenewable energyValue changeValue conflict To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3572e978-5f41-4aba-a1f6-e17d3ad7edc2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00402-4 ISSN 1471-5546 Source Science & Engineering Ethics, 28 (6) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 N. Goyal, K.K. Iychettira Files PDF s11948_022_00402_4.pdf 1.4 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3572e978-5f41-4aba-a1f6-e17d3ad7edc2/datastream/OBJ/view