Most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called ‘ivory tower’ of academic research through popularization, industrial collaboration or teaching. However, little is known about the actual openness of scientific institutions and how their proclaimed priorities...

In this paper, we present an original experience led by professional organizations to encourage SMEs of the agro-food industry to adopt good practices of sustainable development. The collective construction and the diffusion of a guide of good practices of sustainable development are considered...

If small companies currently seem less sensitive than the large ones to the stakes of sustainable development, they could however, taking into account their number, be an important vector of expansion of the practices, in particular in the environmental field. More and more tools and specific...

The relationship between innovation and CSR has so far resulted in studies that 1) mainly analyze the integration of CSR into the business as a generator of innovations and thus of economic performance, or 2) focus on the strategic dimensions of environmental innovation. Few publications examine...