This paper develops the business models for sustainability innovation (BMfSI) framework. It defines innovation-based business cases as the major goal of sustainable entrepreneurs and identifies their most important barriers, i.e. barriers to profiting from sustainability innovations. A common...

1. Introduction -- 2. Evolutionary economics -- 3. Environmental policy and transition management from an evolutionary perspective -- 4. Evolutionary policy for energy innovations -- 5. Case studies -- 6. Summary and conclusions.

This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability. It synthesises economic, ecological and interdisciplinary sustainability research and by applying an integrated social-ecological and economic framework, demonstrates how this research can be improved and implemented...

While business model innovation has been widely accepted as an innovation category on its own, its problem-solving potential is still unexplored. We argue that business model innovation can be applied beyond single firms, i.e. on the value network level, to find systemic solutions to...