The accelerated decarbonisation of energy systems entails a drastic increase in the diffusion rate of renewable energies. The adoption of ambitious policy mixes to this end faces a number of key challenges related to the resistance of multiple actors against the disruptive changes that such an acceleration entail. Policy-driven innovation diffusion efforts will thus require the sustained support and commitment from numerous stakeholders holding conflicting positions over disruptive processes of renewables' innovation diffusion. Yet despite its multistakeholder and processual character, empirical analyses on the social acceptance of renewables' innovation remain skewed towards static examinations of one specific actor group anchored in one particular point in time and location, omitting the interrelations across acceptance dimensions inherent in multistakeholder processes of innovation diffusion. To address these shortcomings, this paper introduces a novel heuristic framework on the acceptance dynamics of innovation diffusion processes as a key element to guide the examination of actor inertia and reorientation dynamics – depth, breadth, speed and directionality – over the diffusion of environmental innovations. Based on suggested framework applications, the paper outlines several implications for future research cutting across social acceptance and actor reorientations within sustainable energy transitions.

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创新扩散的接受动态：分析可持续转型中参与者重新定位的启发式框架

能源系统加速脱碳意味着可再生能源的扩散率大幅提高。为此采取雄心勃勃的政策组合面临着许多关键挑战，这些挑战与多个参与者抵制这种加速带来的颠覆性变化有关。因此，政策驱动的创新扩散努力需要众多利益相关者的持续支持和承诺，这些利益相关者对可再生能源创新扩散的破坏性过程持不同立场。然而，尽管具有多利益相关者和过程性特征，但对可再生能源创新的社会接受度的实证分析仍然偏向于对某个特定时间和地点的特定参与者群体进行静态检查，忽略了多利益相关者创新过程中固有的接受维度之间的相互关系扩散。为了解决这些缺点，本文引入了一种关于创新扩散过程的接受动态的新颖启发式框架，作为指导对环境创新扩散的行为者惯性和重新定位动态（深度、广度、速度和方向性）进行检查的关键要素。基于建议的框架应用，本文概述了对未来研究的若干影响，涉及可持续能源转型中的社会接受度和参与者重新定位。