Executive summary 1 InnovationNetwork developed the concept of âmarine parksâ several years ago in order to address the issues of sustainability and economic development at sea. During these years, the concept has taken various formats, and discussed with various societal groups. The project nonetheless remains in the conceptual stage; it yet to be developed or implemented. This study analyses the stakeholders of marine parks in light of system innovation, with the objective of determining the potential impact of stakeholders on processes involved in realizing marine-park projects. The study aims to guide marine-park designers and project implementers so that they can avoid the expected opposition and gain support from the stakeholders. The research was conducted according to the following methodological strategy: (1) literature study on system innovations, stakeholder analysis; (2) desk research on marine-park projects, wind farms, seafood and seaweed production; (3) empirical research based on fourteen semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with representatives from stakeholder groups. All data were analysed in order to allow conclusions to be drawn and recommendations to be made. The results indicate that marine parks are clusters for creating sustainable production at sea by integrating renewable energy production with aquaculture and by making effective use of ecosystem functions, thus enabling the multidisciplinary and multifunctional use of space in marine environment, as well as production at sea, with minimum environmental impact. Marine parks are system innovations, in which stakeholders play an important role. The process Pagina 11
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