Overview
- Offers a concise, evidence-based review of methodologies, applications and future developments in radical eco-innovation
- Analysis ranges from individual case studies and cross sector assessments to international perspective
- Covers such industries as biogas, automotive manufacturing and apparel, with case studies set in Scandinavia, Western Europe and Latin America
Part of the book series: Greening of Industry Networks Studies (GINS, volume 2)
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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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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Models and Frameworks Supporting Eco-innovation
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Application: Surveys and Case Studies on Eco-innovation Deployment
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Future Directions: Eco-innovation Initiatives
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Editors: Susana Garrido Azevedo, Marcus Brandenburg, Helena Carvalho, Virgílio Cruz-Machado
Series Title: Greening of Industry Networks Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05077-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05076-8Published: 24 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37772-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05077-5Published: 06 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2543-0246
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0254
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 314
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Business and Management, general, Environmental Management, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management, Environment, general