able to achieve certain forms of learning that are not locked into an existing trajectory, as well as embedding what is learned in a format that is available to future actors who may be located in an adjacent domain. This idea is
obviously just a first step in the search for solutions because embeddedness still requires
us to identify a set of conditions under which an actor or group of actors will retrieve
some former option or adapt an alternative from a more distant system. Elaborating the
idea of hidden alternatives must suggest that actors not only keep alternatives ‘in reserve’,
but also may bring solutions from adjacent experiences, thus producing extra redundancy
and spill-over effects capable of promoting transformation.