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Creating Ecologies of Innovation

2010
Innovation—it’s a buzzword for the twenty-first century. Creating new services, new products, new processes, new business models, new organizational forms, and new industries seems to be the key to success in this era of business. What drives innovation? Why do some companies achieve innovation more consistently than others? Is it the people? Is it the
Jeffrey Goldstein, James K. Hazy, Benyamin B. Lichtenstein   +2 more
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Ecological Institution Innovation

2016
When a society transits to a new type of civilization, institutional innovation is indispensable to constantly regulate and accelerate the transition process. During transition from farming civilization to industrial civilization, through institutional innovation, capitalism was created and improved.
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Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition

2016
This book aims to present a systemic perspective on the techno-ecologic transition to a decarbonated society. The transition towards a low-carbon society is currently an important political, technological, economical and social issue. This transition implies a paradigmatic shift in energy production and energy consumption, in human interaction with ...
Picard, Fabienne, Tanguy, Corinne
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Innovation Systems and Innovation Ecologies: Innovation Policy and Restless Capitalism [PDF]

, 2012
Our purpose in this paper is to provide a different perspective on the by now widely discussed idea of innovation systems. This perspective is designed to cohere with the problems faced by innovation policy makers as they seek to pursue the challenge of creating wealth from knowledge and to reflect the salient aspects of a modern capitalist economy ...
Stan Metcalfe, Dimitri Gagliardi, Nicola De Liso, Ronnie Ramlogan   +3 more
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Innovations in Ecology

Regional and Branch Economy
В статье рассматриваются основные методы поддержания экологии. Инновации в сфере экологии являются неотъемлемой частью современного мира. Анализируются такие инновации, как возобновляемые источники энергии, утилизация отходов, экологически чистые материалы, цифровые технологии для отслеживания окружающей среды и озеленение города.
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A Century of Ecological Innovation

Architectural Design, 2015
As humanity faces its greatest disruption to date – climate change – placing the planet and its long‐term survival in jeopardy, visionary designer Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE incites optimism. Rather than being defined by disruption, he predicts that the 21st century with be characterised by innovation, which ‘promises to solve the global ...
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Social-Ecological Innovation and Transformation

2012
Humanity has entered the anthroposcene era; human activity has become a major driving force in the history of the planet. It is critical to find ways to increase our ability to understand and guide human-environment interactions. Our point of departure in this chapter is the contention that human and biophysical systems are closely inter-connected. Yet
Victor Galaz, Per Olsson
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Social-Ecological Innovation

2014
Rick Edgeman, Jacob Eskildsen
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Innovation Dynamics and Organizational Ecologies

2009
In Chap. 3, we explored the major factors of the Triad (social capital, evolved predispositions, and tacit knowledge), and the interplay based on the principles of self-organization or circular causality. In this chapter, we’ll look at three related features to the overall framework, namely innovation at the individual, dyad, and organizational or ...
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Key innovations and the ecology of macroevolution

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1998
The origin or evolutionary `success' of taxa is often attributed to key innovations-aspects of organismal phenotype that promote diversification. Different ways of delimiting taxa and measuring `success' (i.e. number or longevity of species, morphological variety or differential control of energy) give rise to different ideas of how key innovations ...
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