As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of companies engaged in sustainable innovation and the few...

As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of companies engaged in sustainable innovation and the few...

Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human biotechnology – two areas which show remarkable linkages and share similar problems. What many of these suggestions have in common, is their call for a more responsible...

While recent literature has focused on explaining the determinants of green innovations, it is not well understood how such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry-level panel data were exploited: these include 12 OECD...

While the trade policies of TRIPS and, in particular its strong protection for intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical sector, continue to drive health costs upwards, potential regulatory doctrines aimed at reducing those costs often remain underutilized or ineffective. This chapter...

The developments in the bioeconomy area should reflect their usefulness regarding the provision of sustainable solutions for future competitiveness growth by using mainly natural resources. Nowadays the relevance of education, training and research in bioeconomy domain is obvious because these...

In this paper we investigate the existence and evolution of bioeconomic projects of OMV Group, a major global player in the oil and gas industry. We further study the intellectual capital components utilized by OMV Group in supporting these bioeconomic actions. We conduct a longitudinal case...

This chapter is concerned with the connections between the global intellectual property (IP) system and gender inequality. Goal 5 of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.’ While the connections between...

Sustainability policy in the early 2000s is based on and therefore influenced by scientific literature on ‘transition’. The importance of this link has inspired the authors to explore the structure of cooperating authors and citation networks in the field. In order to understand...

Studies related to sustainability have been performed extensively around the world to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social impact of practices that meet the current and future needs of society. Based on the Scopus database, this study presents a bibliometric analysis for the long,...