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Traditional economic theory describes economic agents as being perfectly rational. According to this approach, agents posses all necessary information and have the ability to process this information to make the best decision for maximizing their profit. However, in the real world this...
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relevant for socio-ecological transition. Hereby the paper focuses on the concepts of sustainability, growth, innovation …
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Social innovation is booming as a political buzzword. However, the concept still lacks scientific analysis, a common … corporate social innovation by detaching the concept from the government and NPO sector. It suggests defining social innovation … by its social means and social ends. The term "social" not only refers to the non-material nature of innovation and its …
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Although the label innovation is applied to almost everything, with even the diffusion of innovations to society being … called innovation, innovation research remains focused on bringing technology to the economic market. This dissonance … provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI …
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Why are civil society dynamics concerning green spaces across European cities so interesting for socio-ecological transition? All over Europe self-organized civil society movements are emerging to tackle local challenges, becoming active players in local governance processes. These social...
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Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...
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. redefinition of industrial, regional and innovation policy to characterise and stimulate the economies along a new growth path. It … the history and the way forward of European industrial policy. As regional and innovation policy are fully intertwined … the role of clusters for the new growth path and the contribution of green innovation, especially in the energy sector, to …
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The overall aim of this study is to investigate energy transition processes in rural areas by paying particular attention to the role of energy cooperatives in these processes. The study should mainly uncover, if and under which conditions energy cooperatives provide favourable structures for...
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The concepts social innovation and social entrepreneurship have gained considerable attention both in different fields … approaches we specify the elements that are core for the analysis of social innovation as well as secondary elements that are in … concept of social innovation it is necessarily incomplete, we consider it to be a first necessary step to make them more …
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Area 5 focuses on the regional and local dimensions of the new European path to socio-ecological transition. Its central assumption is that any strategy developed to enhance a socio-ecological transition is unlikely to yield strong results unless the resources of regional and local actors are...
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