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We live exciting and challenging times. Innovation can come from any direction, and companies have never faced such a turbulent environment. Challenges are impressive: economic slowdown in mature economies confronted with many crises, impressive development of emerging markets (often mimicking mature economies’ unsustainable patterns), increasing social scrutiny of companies’ activities, war on talent … The list is long and shows to what extent our current development model and the related systems are under pressure.
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Sempels, C., Hoffmann, J. (2013). Introduction. In: Sustainable Innovation Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352613_1
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