Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration

"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.

Résumé

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.

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Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration.- Sustainability Considerations and Triple-Helix Collaboration in Regional Innovation Systems.- Partnerships and Sustainable Regional Innovation Systems: Special Roles for Universities?.- Obstacles to and Facilitators of the Implementation of Small Urban Wind Turbines in the Netherlands.- Regional Sustainability, Innovation and Welfare Through an Adaptive Process Model.- FOCISS for an Effective Sustainable Innovation Strategy.- The Emergence of Sustainable Innovations: Key Factors and Regional Support Structures.- Disruption or Sustenance? An Institutional Analysis of the Sustainable Business Network in West Michigan.- Regional Perspectives on Capacity Building for Ecodesign - Insights from Wales.- Fostering Responsible Tourism Business Practices Through Collaborative Capacity-Building.- Backcasting Using Principles for Implementing Cradle-to-Cradle.- Corporate Strategies for Sustainable Innovations.- Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection.- Towards Sustainability Through Collaboration Between Industrial Sectors and Government: The Mexican Case.