Innovations can be important means to the achievement of improved sustainability. Due to path dependencies, however, the transition from an existing technological trajectory to a more sustainable one is often impeded by significant barriers. These barriers themselves are subject to substantial...

Due to the environmental challenges associated with the strong growth of plastic waste worldwide, the EU Commission recently published a green paper on a European Strategy on Plastic Waste in the Environment (COM (2013), 123 final), which highlights the challenges and opportunities that arise...