Personlig profil
Forskning
We all depend on societal infrastructure – water from the tap, electricity in the socket, mobile payments, the bus to work, rubbish collected every week. Yet despite rising challenges such as climate change, geopolitical uncertainty, and rapid urbanisation placing ever greater demands on these sectors, they change remarkably slowly. Solutions also look broadly similar the world over, despite places having vastly different physical, institutional, and economic preconditions.
My research is driven by questions about what gives rise to this pattern and what it takes to renew systems we all fundamentally depend on. I draw on my background as an economic geographer, focusing on regional industry dynamics and innovation-driven structural change, to study infrastructure transitions at multiple levels: how firms and public actors develop, commercialise, or implement new solutions; how global templates for infrastructure solutions emerge and are implemented across places with very different preconditions; and what it takes for cities and regions to deviate from the status quo. With a particular focus on the geography of sustainability transitions, I study how places shape different conditions for new infrastructure solutions to emerge – and how these solutions diffuse between cities, regions, and countries.
Forskningsgenomslag
Johan has been an advisor to European policy makers on regional innovation policy, digitization, and transformative innovation policy for sustainability. He has published policy reports with the Swedish Institute, OECD, Vinnova, and the European Research Council, among others.
Expertis relaterad till FN:s globala mål
2015 godkände FN:s medlemsstater 17 Globala mål för en hållbar utveckling, för att utrota fattigdomen, skydda planeten och garantera välstånd för alla. Den här personens arbete relaterar till följande Globala mål:
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SDG 3 – God hälsa och välbefinnande
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SDG 6 – Rent vatten och sanitet för alla
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SDG 7 – Hållbar energi för alla
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SDG 8 – Anständiga arbetsvillkor och ekonomisk tillväxt
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SDG 9 – Hållbar industri, innovationer och infrastruktur
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SDG 11 – Hållbara städer och samhällen
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SDG 12 – Hållbar konsumtion och produktion
Fingeravtryck
- 1 Liknande profiler
Samarbeten under de senaste fem åren
Forskningsoutput
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How the structural composition of sectors shapes socio-technical transitions
Miorner, J., Binz, C. & Fuenfschilling, L., 2026 mars, I: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 59, 101065.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
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Global circular networks and couplings: Towards a multi-scalar architecture of the circular economy
Friedrich, J., Stihl, L., Miorner, J., Miranda de Souza, V., Nilsson, F. & Grillitsch, M., 2025 nov. 27, (E-pub ahead of print) I: Progress in Human Geography.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
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The productivity effects of regional anchors on local firms in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2019—evidence from an expert-informed machine learning approach
Nilsson, M., Schubert, T. & Miörner, J., 2025 mars 1, I: Journal of Economic Geography. 25, 2, s. 215-234 20 s.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
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Bridging the methodological divide: Inspirations from semantic network analysis for (evolutionary) economic geography
Truffer, B., Binz, C., Miörner, J. & Yap, X.-S., 2025, I: Progress in Economic Geography. 3, 1, 100033.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
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How Transformative Innovations Travel: Tracing the Diffusion of Circular District-Scale Sanitation Systems in Europe
Miorner, J., Schelbert, V. & Binz, C., 2025, I: Economic Geography. 101, 2-3, s. 93-121 24 s.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift › Peer review
Öppen tillgång
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DECENT: Socio-technical modularity and the decentralization of infrastructure
Miörner, J. (Forskare)
2026/01/01 → 2031/01/01
Projekt: Forskning
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MAIN-TRANS: Maintenance in Transformation
Miörner, J. (PI), Fünfschilling, L. (CoI) & Brattström, E. (CoI)
2025/09/01 → 2028/08/31
Projekt: Forskning
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The role of regional anchors in industrial growth and transformation
Nilsson, M. (PI), Schubert, T. (Forskare) & Miörner, J. (Forskare)
2020/09/01 → 2023/08/31
Projekt: Forskning
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Regional tillväxt mot alla odds: Drivkrafterna för långsiktig tillväxt i nordiska regioner
Grillitsch, M. (Projektkoordinator), Dahl Fitjar, R. (Forskare), Haus-Reve, S. (Forskare), Kolehmainen, J. (Forskare), Kurikka, H. (Forskare), Kuusk, K. (Forskare), Lundquist, K.-J. (Forskare), Martynovich, M. (Forskare), Miörner, J. (Forskare), Nilsson, M. (Forskare), Rekers, J. (Forskare), Sotarauta, M. (Forskare), Wiig Aslesen, H. (Forskare) & Stihl, L. (Forskarstuderande)
2017/08/01 → 2021/08/31
Projekt: Forskning
Aktiviteter
- 1 Inbjuden talare
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Samtal i Lund: Så rustar vi samhället för nästa stora skifte
Grillitsch, M. (presentatör), Stihl, L. (presentatör), Miörner, J. (presentatör) & Wessman, J. (presentatör)
2026 mars 6Aktivitet: Föredrag eller presentation › Inbjuden talare