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The green technology of LUBEI Eco-Industrial Park has undergone a process of evolution including a technology R&D stage, a technology improvement stage, a technology integration stage and a product innovation stage. The evolution of green technology of LUBEI Eco-Industrial Park in China during the last decade indicates a variety of green technological trajectories. The emerging green technology receives resistance from end-of-pipe technologies. The breakthrough of the path dependence by the existing technology is facilitated by changes in the ‘selected environment’ (the dynamic factors shaping technological evolution), i.e. favourable policies, auxiliary technological support, market environment, corporate culture and resources endowment.
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Annual statistic report on environment in China 2003.
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Shenmin Li, A study on the industrialization for recycle and reuse of solid wastes in Shanghai, Master’s Dissertation of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2008.
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The development of Radical green technology innovation is an uncontrolled factor for the system.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.70603005, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.N100406005 and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Education Fund under Grant No. 08JC630012.
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Guo, L. (2012). The Diffusion of Green Technological Innovations and Stimulus: The Case of LUBEI Eco-Industrial Park in China. In: Vazquez-Brust, D., Sarkis, J. (eds) Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy. Greening of Industry Networks Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4417-2_13
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