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Business-Driven Ecological Innovations in Green Growth Strategies

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Eco-innovations are inventions or developments of new and optimised technology or processes that lead to environmental and economic benefits. Such innovations are closely interlinked with sustainability and green growth concepts. In this chapter, we present the debate on green growth and its linkages to other sub-concepts and also the role of innovations. Examples of existing strategies for green economy are presented to demonstrate different policy options for incentivising the use of eco-innovations. We argue that eco-innovations and sustainable business models are the pragmatic core in the transition to a green economy and must be represented in governmental policy strategies.

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  1. Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics, TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany

    Jan Engelmann

  2. Centre for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Mohammad Al-Saidi

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  2. Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Paavo Ritala

  3. Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Laura Albareda

  4. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Robert Verburg

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Engelmann, J., Al-Saidi, M. (2019). Business-Driven Ecological Innovations in Green Growth Strategies. In: Bocken, N., Ritala, P., Albareda, L., Verburg, R. (eds) Innovation for Sustainability. Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business In Association with Future Earth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97385-2_6

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