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This chapter introduces a methodology and a set of interconnected tools (i.e. platform) for the assessment and management of sustainable innovation, known as CASI-F or CASI Framework. Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 offer a big picture overview of CASI-F rationales, genesis and principles. Then the five-step CASI-F methodology is thoroughly presented in Sect. 1.4 with dedicated subsections describing the methodological protocols and supporting tools in CASIPEDIA. Section 1.5 shows some highlights from the evaluation of CASI-F implementation in 43 pilots, which also helped the authors derive some 150 managerial lessons clustered around 10 key aspects. Sections 1.6 and 1.7 provide an overview of CASI-F applications and its possible evolution. Finally, Sect. 1.8 concludes with some reflections on our approach to ‘learning from experience to shape the future’.
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Karl Popper (1945).
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the European Commission, CASI partners, CASI Country Correspondents and the broader network of CASIPEDIA users, especially the innovators from multiple business, civil society, government and research and education organisations for actively participating in the mobilisation and mutual learning activities that helped us conceive, co-create and give birth to CASI-F. This chapter is, for obvious reasons, based on the various formal outputs of the CASI project, including several reports to the EC and the web-based knowledge platform (i.e. CASIPEDIA) that allowed us to build a rather rich and unique source of case studies on sustainable innovations in Europe and the world. Since the CASI-F methodology is core to most of the contributions in this book, this chapter presents some verbatim extracts from the CASI-F report (see Popper et al. 2017b).
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Popper, R., Popper, M., Velasco, G. (2020). Sustainable Innovation Assessment and Management Framework: Principles, Methodology and Practice. In: Martini, M., Hölsgens, R., Popper, R. (eds) Governance and Management of Sustainable Innovation. Sustainability and Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46750-0_1
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