Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: The case of Punjab, India

Groot, Annemarie; Bolt, J.S.; Jat, H.S.; Jat, M.L.; Kumar, Mukesh; Agarwal, Tripati; Blok, Vincent

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.054

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“…SMEs vary significantly between sector and location, which are the factors influencing how they can develop an environmental sustainability business. Parker et al () recommended that researchers need to concentrate on industry‐specific and other variables on which SMEs can be categorized (Bar, ; Boiral, Ebrahimi, Kuyken, & Talbot, ; Groot et al, ; Long, Looijen, & Blok, ; Malesios et al, ; Prieto‐Sandoval, Ormazabal, Jaca, & Viles, ). Our results show the pattern in the sectors that are studied from 2013 to 2019 (Figure ).…”

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“…We also classified the studies we investigated by continent ( Figure 4). Most of the research studies we have found occur in Europe, which makes up 41% of the research (e.g., Girgenti, Peano, Baudino, & Tecco, 2014;Hertel & Menrad, 2015;Flynn & Davis, 2016;Jansson, Nilsson, Modig, & Hed Vall, 2017;Mayr, Mitter, & Aichmayr, 2017;Torkkeli, Kuivalainen, Saarenketo, & Puumalainen, 2019;Girella, Zambon, & Rossi, 2019), Asia accounts for 22% (e.g., Seth, Rehman, & Shrivastava, 2018;Singh, Olugu, & Musa, 2016) and South America at 19% (e.g., Lucato, Costa, & ables on which SMEs can be categorized (Bar, 2015;Boiral, Ebrahimi, Kuyken, & Talbot, 2019;Groot et al, 2019;Long, Looijen, & Blok, 2018;Malesios et al, 2018;Prieto-Sandoval, Ormazabal, Jaca, & Viles, 2018). Our results show the pattern in the sectors that are studied from 2013 to 2019 (Figure 7).…”

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

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One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is climate change. The need to consistently advance with environmentally sustainable practices in today's businesses is crucial, and businesses are demanded to be more environmentally sustainable every day. This study conducts an analysis of the literature on small and medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) environmental sustainability by carefully examining 122 studies from 58 journals published from 2013 to 2019. We investigate the trends in drivers and barriers of sustainability adoption to inform both SMEs managers and policymakers. Our results also classify the reviewed studies on the basis of their methodologies and show the distribution of studies across industry sectors and locations in order to set directions for future research on sustainability practices of SMEs.

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“…Climate-smart agriculture practices such as rice-shrimp cultivation, agroforestry and use of water management technologies ensure better livelihood security by increasing productivity, farm income and boosting employment opportunities (Sikka et al, 2018). A study based on Punjab reveals that CSA reduces GHG emission intensity by 34% (Groot et al, 2019). Some (2020) has explicitly shown from extensive literature review that adoption of these new activities (mitigation actions) provide various SDGs-related co-benefits.…”

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“…Efficient use of nitrogenous fertilizers saves energy (SDG 7) due to reduction in application of fossil fuel-dependent synthetic fertilizer (Kritee et al, 2015) and also reduces leaching, thereby reducing water pollution (SDG 6 and 14), and hence aids in sustainable production (SDG 12). CSA practices sustain soil health (SDG 2 and 12) (Parihar et al, 2018), save water and increase water productivity (SDG 6) and improve energy use efficiency and energy productivity compared to traditional practices (SDG 7) (Groot et al, 2019). Therefore, to pave the path towards sustainable development of Indian agriculture, scaling up these new activities is a must.…”

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Fast-Growing Developing Countries: Dilemma and Way Forward in a Carbon-Constrained World

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“…Although smart agriculture technologies and practices are widely available [6], they are not utilized to their full potential because of low levels of adoption by smallholder farmers [7] and most research has been conducted in developed countries rather than developing countries.…”

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Systems Science: Digital Transformation andDeveloping Business Model toward Smart Farms’platform

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2021

International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

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This paper describes efforts by National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) to help the Egyptian government to manage and monitor the national projects. We successfully developed a geospatial data sharing portal (NARSSGeoPortal) as part of the government need to build national Decision Support System (DSS). We were able to solve the software development issues as well as the satellite imagery sourcing issues, but the main challenge remains around how to collect complete and correct data from the public about their private businesses nationwide. The most challenging is how to engage the public and encourage the business owners who are the main sources of data to provide the government Geoportal with data about their businesses. It is also challenging to engage the scientists and experts from government research centers into the data sharing Geoportal. Furthermore, it is a challenge to integrate the government research centers with the public businesses’ daily operation. The data sharing Geoportal is built for all national projects and government authorities, however, in this paper we focus on the Agriculture authorities and farming businesses where the challenge is how to collect correct and complete data per acre about the seeds, fertilizers, water, pest control and all other farm related data that the satellite imagery does not provide. The goal is to integrate the farms into unified national monitoring, and control system while developing advanced smart farms with the use of Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed collaboration agriculture platform fills the gap between two groups. The first group includes the government authorities, financial institutions, and research centers. The second group includes farmers, supply chain, and agriculture engineers. The platform show how employment can be generated by transforming the national ecosystem. The paper also fills a major gap in industry as well as in academia by providing the first Bluetooth Low Energy computer aided design tool that will facilitate testing, designing, deploying, managing and debugging of real Bluetooth Low Energy networks.

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Business models of SMEs as a mechanism for scaling climate smart technologies: The case of Punjab, India

Cited by 44 publications

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An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

An analysis of environmental sustainability in small & medium‐sized enterprises: Patterns and trends

Fast-Growing Developing Countries: Dilemma and Way Forward in a Carbon-Constrained World

Systems Science: Digital Transformation andDeveloping Business Model toward Smart Farms’platform

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