Eco-innovation and the development of business models : lessons from experience and new frontiers in theory and practice /

Eco-innovation and the development of business models : lessons from experience and new frontiers in theory and practice /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:Greening of Industry Networks Studies ; volume 2
Greening of industry networks studies ; v. 2.
Subject:
Sustainable development.
Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11085672
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Other authors / contributors:Garrido Azevedo, Susana editor.
ISBN:9783319050775
331905077X
3319050761
9783319050768
9783319050768
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 16, 2014).
Summary: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.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319050768
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-05077-5
Table of Contents:
  • Developments and directions of eco-innovation
  • Part I Models and frameworks supporting eco-innovation
  • Managing cross-industry innovations: A search strategy for radical eco-innovations
  • How to make eco-innovation a competitive strategy: a perspective on the knowledge-based development
  • A framework for developing, evaluating and assessing eco-innovations
  • Radical and Systematic Eco-Innovation with TRIZ Methodology
  • Part II Application: surveys and case studies on eco-innovation deployment
  • Eco-Innovation on Manufacturing Industry: The role of sustainability on innovation processes
  • Portraying the Eco-Innovative Landscape in Brazil: determinants, processes and results
  • Contextual Factors as Drivers of Eco-innovation Strategies: The Definition of an Organizational Taxonomy in the Brazilian Cellulose, Paper and Paper Products Industry
  • Conceptualising industry efforts to eco-innovate among large Swedish companies
  • Integrated environmental management tools for product and organizations in clusters
  • Towards joint product-service business models: The case of Your Energy Solution
  • Business model innovation for eco-innovation: developing a boundary-spanning business model of an ecosystem integrator
  • Part III future directions: eco-innovation initiatives
  • A new methodology for eco-friendly construction: utilizing quality function deployment to meet LEED requirements
  • Light weight small island ferries in Scandinavia: a case of radical eco-innovation
  • BioTRIZ: a win-win methodology for eco-innovation.

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