Sustainable innovation : strategy, process and impact / edited by Cosmina Lelia Voinea, Nadine Roijakkers and Ward Ooms.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in innovations organization and technologyPublisher: New Yok : Routledge, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xviii, 303 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780367693862 (paperback)
- HD30.28 S87
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General H (Social Sciences: Economic, Industries, Commerce, Finance, Sociology, Family, Society) | Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali First Floor (Gadong Campus) | HD30.28 S87 2021 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 105006956 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
"The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability. This book represents a realistic critical overview of the state of affairs of sustainable innovations, offering an accessible and comprehensive diagnostic point of reference for both the academic and practitioner worlds. In order for sustainable innovation to truly become mainstream practice in business it is necessary to find out how organizations can strategically and efficiently accommodate sustainability and innovation in such a manner that they accomplish value capturing (for firms, stakeholders, and for society), not merely creating a return on the social responsibility agenda. Addressing this challenge, the book draws together research from a range of perspectives in order to understand the potential shifts and barriers, benefits and outcomes from all angles: inception, strategic process, and impact for companies and society. The book also delivers insights of (open) innovation in public sector organizations, which is not so much a process of invention as it is one of adoption and diffusion. It examines how the environmental pillar of the triple bottom line in private firms is often a by-product of thinking about the economic pillar, where cost reductions may be achieved through process innovation in terms of eliminating waste and reducing energy consumption. The impact of open innovation on process innovation, and sustainable process innovation in particular, is an underexplored area but is examined in this book. It also considers the role of the individual entrepreneur in bringing about sustainable innovation; entrepreneurs, their small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as the innovation ecosystems they build, play a significant role in generating sustainable innovations where these smaller organizations are much more flexible than large organizations in targeting societal needs and challenges. The readership will incorporate PhD students and postgraduate researchers, as well as practitioners from organizational advisory fields"-- Provided by publisher.
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