overcoming global environmental problems. This study therefore takes stock of cooperative innovation activities in environmental … direct R&D investments and international trade in environmental technologies. The innovation indicators considered in this … study show strong growth in environmental innovation activities in emerging economies. Germany could support the global …

reflected in rising costs and investments for environmental protection, but also in a growing importance of innovation …

Social innovation can play an important role for the approaching transformational process to a sustainable society …. Closely linked to this innovation is the assumption that new approaches, practices and controlling impulses can be initiated … social innovation, and which conclusions shall arise. Based on this question, suggestions emerged as to how social innovation …