Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

✍ Scribed by Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro (auth.), Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro, Diego Vazquez Brust (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 280
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration" takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North America. Prominent policy makers, scientific researchers and practitioners in this field provide various inputs and analyses relating to the development of sustainable innovations. It is expected that policy makers, organizations, individual researchers, students and even communities can further develop and implement concepts and practices by drawing on the variety of projects and theoretical foundations presented in this volume.

Topics include environmental supply chain management, regional sustainability strategy, the ‘Triple Helix’ collaboration, and specific technological developments and advances in this area. A reader can thus quickly build a comprehensive and state-of-the-art understanding of the field of sustainable innovation and its future directions. This broad perspective is needed for a complex and evolving field such as sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration....Pages 1-16
Sustainability Considerations and Triple-Helix Collaboration in Regional Innovation Systems....Pages 17-39
Partnerships and Sustainable Regional Innovation Systems: Special Roles for Universities?....Pages 41-58
Obstacles to and Facilitators of the Implementation of Small Urban Wind Turbines in the Netherlands....Pages 59-76
Regional Sustainability, Innovation and Welfare Through an Adaptive Process Model....Pages 77-96
FOCISS for an Effective Sustainable Innovation Strategy....Pages 97-114
The Emergence of Sustainable Innovations: Key Factors and Regional Support Structures....Pages 115-133
Disruption or Sustenance? An Institutional Analysis of the Sustainable Business Network in West Michigan....Pages 135-157
Regional Perspectives on Capacity Building for Ecodesign – Insights from Wales....Pages 159-183
Fostering Responsible Tourism Business Practices Through Collaborative Capacity-Building....Pages 185-201
Backcasting Using Principles for Implementing Cradle-to-Cradle....Pages 203-216
Corporate Strategies for Sustainable Innovations....Pages 217-232
Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection....Pages 233-246
Towards Sustainability Through Collaboration Between Industrial Sectors and Government: The Mexican Case....Pages 247-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-272

✦ Subjects

Sustainable Development; Technology Management; Environmental Management; Production/Logistics; Regional/Spatial Science; R & D/Technology Policy

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