A5035477753- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Corporate Governance and Management
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Economic and Social Issues
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Digital Innovation in Industries
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Service and Product Innovation
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- International Development and Aid
- Sustainability in Higher Education
Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability
2011-2024
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2010-2023
ESCP Business School
2018
Institute for Sustainability
2007
Institute for Ecological Economy Research
1997-2000
IGES Institut
2000
Praxis (United States)
1928
Research on Open Innovation has increasingly emphasised the role of communities in creating, shaping and disseminating innovations. However, comparability many studies been hampered by lack a precise definition community construct, research to date not well connected insights from transformational leaders networking champions promotors across organisational boundaries. For this reason, paper introduces new construct ‘innovation communities’ based promotor theory, which it defines as...
Impact startups are innovative new ventures that diffuse solutions at scale have a sustainability net benefit. They play an important role in the transition as actors for introduction and diffusion of innovation. While relevance entrants young has been acknowledged sustainable entrepreneurship research, it remains unclear how individual grow successfully present their sustainability-oriented market innovations transform markets towards development. Referring to this research gap, we...
Abstract State universities are increasingly being transformed from institutions with traditional teaching and research responsibilities to have a third, societal role in sustainable regional economic development. In doing so, support knowledge spillovers improve entrepreneurial ecosystems that benefit revitalization or further development of regions. At the same time they promote stakeholder involvement crucial governance processes at level. Based on comparative case study design building...
Entrepreneurs and start-ups are key actors in implementing environmental innovation accelerating sustainability transitions. Thus, analyzing as well predicting the impact of entrepreneurial ventures is central to management entrepreneurship research. The performance, value incumbent firms their products services has been a topic business-related research for many years. However, assessing effects new such neglected area literature. This article therefore provides an overview, including...
There is a growing political consensus about the necessity to decouple economic growth from environmental impacts. For transition towards green economy radical innovation plays central role. Start-ups are key marketin development and market introduction of sustainable innovation, but so far there little research on specific challenges opportunities “green” start-ups. In this conceptual paper, we bring together theory entrepreneurship as well business practice ask why how different types...
Entrepreneurs and start-ups are key actors in implementing environmental innovation new approaches cleaner production. Therefore, the integration of sustainability considerations early phases a venture is important. Insights on how this can be effectively implemented start-up support systems scarce represent research gap. Business plan competitions (BPCs) constitute an important element entrepreneurial systems, powerful force driving activity. Up till now, it unclear whether BPCs actually...
Summary The environmental effects of e‐commerce may be described in terms first‐, second‐, and third‐order effects. Data for these are scarce, partly because research on e‐business is still its infancy, although it evolving very rapidly. Until now, positive consequences have generally been coincidental. Two crucial questions that must addressed (1) How do we improve our understanding management the e‐commerce? (2) Which approaches best suited to development sustainable e‐solutions? Three...
There is a growing consensus about the urgent necessity to green economy and decouple economic growth from environmental pressure. Against this background, article explores three questions: (1) What are key factors influencing diffusion dynamics of sustainable product service innovations? (2) To what extent do processes innovations differ each other, can different groups be identified? (3) Which factors, actors, institutional settings characteristic processes? While research on innovation so...
A shared understanding of the basic requirements for modelling sustainability-oriented business is currently missing. This hindering collaboration, exchange and learning about models as well development suitable widely-accepted tools. We contribute toward such a based on theoretical discussion boundary-spanning interactive model sustainable value creation. The feeds into comparative analysis six available practitioner tools supporting exploration elaboration models. By synthesising findings...
Empirical research on the diffusion of environmental product and service innovations has significant limits: almost all investigations focus just a single sector or technology, usually energy, concern small number cases. Therefore, it is hardly possible to generalize across sectors identify potential differences between sectors. We address this gap with an investigation large sample 130 cases from 11 different apply new mixed-method approach statistical analysis qualitative extreme case...
Abstract For research as well policymakers aiming at fostering multilevel transitions toward sustainability, there is a clear need to better understand the transformative role and relevance of startups newcomers in market. The existing typologies sustainable entrepreneurship green have been derived from theory are conceptual or anecdotal nature. lack validity generalizability major gap, do not provide sufficient basis for policy decisions on how promote which type effectively support...
In recent years public policy has increasingly recognised the importance of entrepreneurship for sustainable economic growth and solving fundamental challenges such as climate change. It is emphasised that universities should play an important role in supporting by sensitising educating future entrepreneurs. Up till now there hardly been any research on university support systems entrepreneurship. We address this gap with a qualitative multi-case study four USA Germany, based 41 good...