Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science

Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science
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Preface
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From waste to value: assessing the pressures toward a sustainability transition of the Ukrainian waste management system
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical framework
		2.1 The hierarchy of waste
		2.2 Waste sector and sociotechnical transitions
	3. The Ukrainian waste management system
		3.1 Background
		3.2 Statistical data
	4. Methodology
	5. Results
	6. Conclusions
	References
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Success factors for environmentally sustainable product innovation
	1. Introduction
	2. Benefits of environmentally sustainable product innovation
	3. Drivers and motivations for environmentally sustainable product innovation
	4. Innovations and technological uncertainty
		4.1 Radical and incremental innovations
		4.2 Technological uncertainty
	5. External collaboration partners
		5.1 Why do firms collaborate with external partners to develop environmentally sustainable innovations?
		5.2 With whom do firms collaborate for environmentally sustainable innovations?
		5.3 How do collaboration partners contribute to environmentally sustainable innovations?
		5.4 Building relationships with partners
		5.5 Characteristics of partners: single or multiple, small or large, and national or international?
		5.6 Considerations regarding external collaboration
	6. Internal collaboration across functions
	7. Literature on success factors for environmentally sustainable product innovation
	8. Summarizing the success factors
	9. Future research agenda
		9.1 Contradictions in the literature
		9.2 Fruitful venues of investigation into environmentally sustainable product innovation
	References
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Public driven and public perceptible innovation of environmental sector
	1. Introduction
		1.1 The first technology: text analysis
		1.2 The Second Technology: Mind Genomics
	2. Materials and Methods
	3. Running the mind genomics studies
		3.1 Surface analysis: distribution of ratings and response times
		3.2 Deeper analysis 1: solar energy
		3.3 Dividing respondents into mind-sets about solar, based on the pattern of their coefficients
		3.4 Deeper analysis 2: nuclear power
		3.5 Underlying neurophysiological processes
	4. Deconstructing the response times to components
	5. Studies undertaken using the mind genomics approach
		5.1 Study of the case of corruption in education
		5.2 Study on the threshold: what concerns healthy people about the prospect of cancer?
		5.3 Candy is dandy: the mind of sexuality as suggested by a mind genomics experiment
		5.4 Study of mental informatics and agricultural issues: global change versus sustainable agriculture
		5.5 Study renewable energy: tapping and typing the citizen's mind
	6. Segment 1: gradualists
	7. Segment 2: realists
		7.1 Study customer requirements for natural food stores: the mind of the shopper
		7.2 Comparison of text mining and mind genomics
	8. Conclusions
	Acknowledgments
	References
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- Implementing environmental sustainability engagement into business: sustainability management, innovation, and sustainable  ...
	1. Process innovation and environmental sustainability engagement
	2. Theoretical frameworks and economic/institutional rationales
		2.1 Stakeholder theory
		2.2 Legitimacy theory
		2.3 Institutional theory
		2.4 Signaling theory
	3. Strategic approaches to environmental sustainability
	4. Implementing sustainability initiatives
		4.1 A business case for environmental sustainability and environmental sustainability management
		4.2 The role of innovation in sustainable business models
	5. Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
	Further reading
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Open and eco-innovations in traditional industries
	1. Introduction
	2. Literature review and hypothesis development
		2.1 Network factors in open innovation
		2.2 Breadth of sources
		2.3 External search depth
		2.4 External geographic diversity
	3. Data and methods
		3.1 Traditional sector
		3.2 Definition of sample and variables
		3.3 Results in the agri-food industry
		3.4 Results in the tourism industry
	4. Conclusions, recommendations, and limitations
	References
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Achieving environmental sustainability with ecodesign practices and tools for new product development
	1. Introduction
	2. Ecodesign and new product development
	3. Ecodesign in the context of product portfolio management
		3.1 Strategic
		3.2 Organizational
		3.3 Methods and tools
	4. Practices, methods, and tools
		4.1 Ecodesign checklist
		4.2 Materials, energy, and toxicity matrix
		4.3 Green Design Advisor
		4.4 Environmental-quality function deployment
	5. Drivers and barriers for ecodesign adoption
	6. Concluding remarks
	References
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Green and low-carbon technology innovations
	1. Introduction
	2. Methodology and search criteria
	3. Overview of the literature from the web of science database
		3.1 Literature classified by period sequence
		3.2 Literature classified by country and territory
		3.3 Literature classified by research method
		3.4 Literature classified by research level
		3.5 Literature classified by research subject area
		3.6 Literature classified by key words cluster
	4. Literature classified by major themes
		4.1 Regulation or policy innovations
		4.2 Technology innovation adoptions and diffusion
		4.3 Technology transfer
		4.4 Technology innovation management and capability
		4.5 Basic research and advance development
		4.6 Entrepreneurship innovations
	5. Result and discussion
		5.1 Insight from our exploration
		5.2 Recommendations for future direction
	6. Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
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Sustainable and innovative practices of small and medium-sized enterprises in the water and waste management sector
	1. Introduction and background
	2. Water management
	3. Waste management
	4. Future perspectives
	5. Conclusions
	References
	Further reading
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Innovative and sustainable membrane technology for wastewater treatment and desalination application
	1. Introduction
	2. Membrane processes
		2.1 Pressure-driven membrane processes
		2.2 Osmotically driven membrane processes
	3. Membrane development
		3.1 Membrane fabrication
		3.2 Membrane modifications
		3.3 New classes of membranes
	4. Membrane technology for wastewater treatment
		4.1 Heavy metal removal
		4.2 Color removal
		4.3 Oily wastewater treatment
	5. Membrane technology for desalination
	6. Membrane technology for energy generation
	7. Innovation and sustainability of membrane technology
	8. Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
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