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Responsible Consumption and Production pp 1–11Cite as

Green Entrepreneurship

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Synonyms

Eco-entrepreneurship; Ecopreneurship; Environmental entrepreneurship/enviropreneurship

Definition

Green entrepreneurship refers to a special subset of entrepreneurship that aims at creating and implementing solutions to environmental problems and to promote social change so that the environment is not harmed. It has also been suggested that green entrepreneurship could be a new business paradigm instead of a subset of entrepreneurship because green entrepreneurs have wider motivations than just launching eco-friendly products and services for a niche market (Kirkwood and Walton 2010). Environmental or green entrepreneurship can be explained on the basis of theories on entrepreneurship, and environmental and welfare economics as a subset of sustainable entrepreneurship (Dean and McMullen 2007). The environmental economics literature states that environmental degradation is a result of market failures, while the entrepreneurship literature claims that there are business...

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Ulla A. Saari

  2. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinäjoki, Finland

    Sanna Joensuu-Salo

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  1. Faculty of Life Science, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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Saari, U.A., Joensuu-Salo, S. (2019). Green Entrepreneurship. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_6-1

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