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

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 w...

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Other Authors: Azevedo, Susana Garrido (Editor), Brandenburg, Marcus 1972- (Editor), Carvalho, Helena (Editor), Cruz-Machado, Virgilio (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Springer 2014
Series:Greening of Industry Networks Studies 2
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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