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Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration

A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

  • Provides insights into the issue of sustainable innovation from the perspective of diverse stakeholders
  • Theory and practice intermingled throughout each contribution

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration

    • Joseph Sarkis, James J. Cordeiro, Diego Alfonso Vazquez Brust
    Pages 1-16
  3. Sustainability Considerations and Triple-Helix Collaboration in Regional Innovation Systems

    • Reine Karlsson, Mikael Backman, AnnaKarin Djupenström
    Pages 17-39
  4. Partnerships and Sustainable Regional Innovation Systems: Special Roles for Universities?

    • Martin Lehmann, Per Christensen, Björn Johnson
    Pages 41-58
  5. Regional Sustainability, Innovation and Welfare Through an Adaptive Process Model

    • Kjell-Erik Bugge, Bill O’Gorman, Ian Hill, Friederike Welter
    Pages 77-96
  6. Regional Perspectives on Capacity Building for Ecodesign – Insights from Wales

    • Simon O’Rafferty, Frank O’Connor
    Pages 159-183
  7. Fostering Responsible Tourism Business Practices Through Collaborative Capacity-Building

    • Bruce Simmons, Robyn Bushell, Jennifer Scott
    Pages 185-201
  8. Backcasting Using Principles for Implementing Cradle-to-Cradle

    • Freek van der Pluijm, Karen Marie Miller, Augusto Cuginotti
    Pages 203-216
  9. Strategic Alliances for Environmental Protection

    • Haiying Lin, Nicole Darnall
    Pages 233-246
  10. Towards Sustainability Through Collaboration Between Industrial Sectors and Government: The Mexican Case

    • María Laura Franco-García, Hans Th. A. Bressers
    Pages 247-264
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 265-272

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Clark University, Worcester, USA

    Joseph Sarkis

  • College at Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, Brockport, USA

    James J. Cordeiro

  • ESRC Centre for Business Relationships,, Accountability, Sustainability &, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Diego Vazquez Brust

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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