Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models : Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice Hardback
Edited by Susana Garrido Azevedo, Marcus Brandenburg, Helena Carvalho, Virgilio Cruz-Machado
Part of the Greening of Industry Networks Studies series
Hardback
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Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now.
Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along with theory, methodologies and tools demonstrating how eco-innovation can support sustainable economic growth and save our planet for future generations. Following an introduction describing developments and directions of eco-innovation, Section One discusses Models and Frameworks Supporting Eco-Innovation, with chapters on search strategy for radical eco-innovation; and systematic eco-innovation with TRIZ Methodology.
Section Two offers surveys and case studies showing eco-innovation in practice, including a sketch of the eco-innovative landscape in the Brazilian Cellulose, Paper and Paper Products Industry; efforts to eco-innovate among large Swedish companies; progress towards joint product-service business models and more.
The third section surveys future directions and emerging trends, among them a new methodology for eco-friendly construction; the development of lightweight small inter-island ferries in Scandinavia and BioTRIZ: a win-win methodology for eco-innovation. The book explores eco-innovation as a framework for supporting the development of new business models which consider the entire business ecosystem, on the way to a sustainable world.
Moreover, it explores the eco-innovation process in cross-national and cross-sector perspective.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages, 8 Illustrations, color; 39 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 314 p. 47 illus., 8 illus
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:24/06/2014
- ISBN:9783319050768
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages, 8 Illustrations, color; 39 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 314 p. 47 illus., 8 illus
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:24/06/2014
- ISBN:9783319050768
