In this paper the author contrasts 'green businesses' with 'green-green businesses'. The ideal type of 'ecopreneur' is defined as one who creates green-green businesses in order to radically transform the economic sector in which he or she operates. Similarly, ecopreneurship is seen as an...

Taking Silicon Valley as a "Weberian ideal type" of high-tech development, one can derive 10 key characteristics which together can be used to measure to what extent other regions of the world have been able to duplicate this "hot spot" of economic transformation. Comparisons of such synergistic...