The paper uses trade data to explore how the effectiveness of new forms of human rights, climate and environmental supply chain governance may be influenced by trade flows, now and in the future. These forms may include legislation, treaty, transnational collective bargaining, binding agreements...

We outline five human rights and environmental governance challenges created by the garment industry’s complex structure. If new laws, regulations, collective bargaining systems and other governance tools can overcome these challenges, they will be far more effective in the years to come. We...

How many garment brands would need to change their behaviour in order to reach a ‘critical mass’ leading to widespread improvement in respect for human rights and the environment? And how should governance and regulatory efforts be designed to help achieve that critical mass? Using a...

Acclaimed entrepreneurship and innovation scholar Piero Formica, along with a strong and diverse cast of international contributors, explore the world of Open Innovation in this volume. Tackling new developments in the field, the authors examine altruism and the role of openness to unorthodox...

This book presents the emerging paradigm and methodology, Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2), which aims to help drive significant structural changes and benefits through digital innovation to society and industry. It highlights how new services and markets can be co-created in open ecosystems and how...

In the knowledge economy, greater togetherness is the prerequisite for innovating and having more: selflessness extends scope while selfishness increases limitations. But human beings are not automatically attracted to innovation: between the two lies culture and cultural values vary widely,...

Introduction -- University Ecosystems Design Creative Spaces for Start-up Experimentation -- Capitalizing on Open Innovation 2.0 -- Laboratory Experiments as a Tool in the Empirical Economic Analysis of High-Expectation Entrepreneurship -- Accelerating Venture Creation and Building on Mutual...

"The current economic era, characterized by the rapid and global dissemination of information and capital, has been called the ""knowledge age,"" the ""entrepreneurial society,"" and the ""intangibles economy,"" among other labels. Technological and productivity improvements continue to shift...