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Developments and Directions of Eco-innovation

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Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models

Part of the book series: Greening of Industry Networks Studies ((GINS,volume 2))

Abstract

To achieve business sustainability, companies must perform a set of changes not only in their internal processes but also in the large-scale level of business ecosystems. This change of paradigm from individual to macro level requires an understanding of new drivers of innovation as a way to improve and look for new business dynamics, to minimize the negative environmental externalities, and to keep the economic performance of companies. This chapter aims to summarize recent developments and future trends of eco-innovation in theory and application from its usual forms of incremental to more radical and systematic innovation. A brief introduction of eco-innovation and a terminological foundation consisting of adequate definitions of specific or ambiguous terms are given. It illustrates how models and frameworks for eco-innovation and its applications can support the ecological business modernization and how it can promote win-win situations among the different stakeholders. Beyond this, the chapter introduces and discusses the various remaining chapters in this book and presents summaries, insights, and linkages among them.

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    The search was based on the keywords “eco-innovation,” “environmental innovation,” and “green innovation” and performed on May 9, 2013.

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    Based on the number of publications written by the leading researcher.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Susana Garrido Azevedo

  2. Supply Chain Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Marcus Brandenburg

  3. Department of Production Management, School of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Marcus Brandenburg

  4. UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Lisbon, Portugal

    Helena Carvalho & Virgílio Cruz-Machado

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  1. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Susana Garrido Azevedo

  2. Supply Chain Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Marcus Brandenburg

  3. UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Helena Carvalho

  4. UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Virgílio Cruz-Machado

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Azevedo, S.G., Brandenburg, M., Carvalho, H., Cruz-Machado, V. (2014). Developments and Directions of Eco-innovation. In: Azevedo, S., Brandenburg, M., Carvalho, H., Cruz-Machado, V. (eds) Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models. Greening of Industry Networks Studies, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05077-5_1

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