Innovation for Sustainable Development—Systemic Perspectives
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: business model; business model innovation; open innovation; inter-organizational partnerships and learning; university-industry collaboration
Interests: business models for sustainability; sustainable innovation; design for sustainability; sustainable value creation; user centric design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Society faces a broad range of urgent sustainability challenges. Sustainable development challenges are highly complex in nature and therefore require innovations, collaboration and integration at all levels of society. There is an emerging need to understand how businesses, public institutions, and civil society interplay at a systemic level to make a real impact, i.e., beyond the borders of individual firms and organizations, e.g. through business models, supply chain and other inter-organizational systems. This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers offering insights, approaches and tools for the particular challenges related to innovations for sustainable development. Thus, we expect papers from several disciplines as well as interdisciplinary contributions.
Covered topics will include the identification of factors affecting innovation processes for sustainable development, such as challenges (cognitive, strategic, technological, political, and ideological) related to policy and management, inter-organizational collaboration, customers and civil society, as well as tools for experimenting, developing, assessing, implementing and governing innovation processes for sustainable development. We welcome conceptual and empirical papers, qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Dr. Lars Bengtsson
Dr. Jessica Wadin
Dr. Lea Fuenfschilling
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovation
- innovation processes
- sustainable development
- systemic
- policy
- management
- implementation
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