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Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different … (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both …
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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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This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental, geopolitical and economic perspective. Yet, it greatly...
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relevant for socio-ecological transition. Hereby the paper focuses on the concepts of sustainability, growth, innovation … innovation, as a central driver for growth. Within the context of a socio-ecological transition based on sustainable growth …, ecological and social innovation gain in importance vis-à-vis purely profit-oriented innovation. Long-term growth is based on …
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This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
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to integrate endogenous technological progress. Nevertheless, several complexities of innovation are still neglected even … modelling literature through a special lens. We discuss how existing models deal with different types of innovation (i ….e. product and process innovation) and how differences in innovation activities influence modelling results. We also emphasise …
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According to the triple helix model, the dynamic of the innovation system development of a region or sector is … concept of social innovation and the beginning of its research. The fifth helix, that is the ecological approach, strengthens … further the possibility of the interpretation of social innovation as the knowledge-based development, the social, political …
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Several studies and researches investigate the innovation ability of tourism. The research topic is also interesting …, because even the European Union subsidises innovation development and tourism, as a major branch of the service sector, is … the past year will be presented in the followings. The research question was what social innovation potentials local …
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' own innovation capacities need strengthening. Investment in food and agricultural research and development (R&D) is an … important tool for broad-based innovation, for instance, related to improved seeds. Digital technology is a game changer for … development policy with diplomacy and security policy. Innovation initiatives like any development investments must follow …
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The article offers aqualimetric assessment of the innovation in regional economic systems, taking into account … systems; analysis and synthesis to identify the mechanism for identifying and implementing priority areas of innovation in the … regions; the grouping method for clustering regions according to the calculated values of the integrated index of innovation …
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