Toward Accelerating Sustainability Transitions through Collaborative Sustainable Business Modeling: A Conceptual Approach

Sustainability transitions are purposeful and require deliberate collective action from multiple organizations, leading to the necessity to adopt new business models and redesign value networks. In both business model and sustainability transition research, the explicit activities needed to re-shape value creation and capture systems of...

Living labs: an approach for achieving sustainable change in city logistics

The Living lab is an approach that allows for improving the co-creation processes, putting the end-users at the heart of innovation, realizing new business models, looking for new roles for traditional stakeholders in the innovation process, and a more directed innovation preparation and deployment process. This article describes experiences of...

A comprehensive review of the evolving and cumulative nature of eco-innovation in the chemical industry

Different bodies of literature have attempted to explain what factors and events drive industries throughout processes of environmental change. The latter is a gradual, historical process of evolution from lower to higher degrees of development. Based on concepts derived from evolutionary economics, greening technological progress and resource...

Upscaling emerging niche technologies in sustainable energy: an international comparison of policy approaches