Unveiling scientific communities about sustainability and innovation. A bibliometric journey around sustainable terms

Franceschini, Simone; Faria, Lourenco; Jurowetzki, Roman

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.142

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“…Sustainable innovation is a concept consisting of several approaches to sustainability-related innovation such as green, eco, environmental and sustainable innovation [32,33]. Schiederig et al (2012) reviewed the literature on sustainability-related innovation and concluded that sustainable innovations appear in different forms including products, processes, services and business models [32].…”

Section: Sustainable Innovationmentioning

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“…However, not only Lubberink et al [18] but also Adams et al [1] explicitly state that sustainable and responsible innovation are both focused on sustainability as a desirable outcome of innovation. Studies regarding green and eco innovation research are primarily focused on the environmental and economic dimensions as innovation outcomes [33]. However, sustainable innovation responds to the 'triple-bottom-line' and increasingly integrates the social dimension of sustainability in innovation processes and subsequent outcomes as well [1].…”

Section: Sustainable Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The grand challenges [11,23,119] The uncertainty regarding innovations' future impacts [3] The embedding of innovation in society [5,119] The social needs and problems that are not being met by the government or market actors [16,120] The climate-related grand challenges [121] that are often complex [1] The business opportunity to increase profits by developing a sustainable innovation [1,32,33] Throughput of innovation (i.e., the process)…”

Section: Input For Innovationmentioning

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Lessons for Responsible Innovation in the Business Context: A Systematic Literature Review of Responsible, Social and Sustainable Innovation Practices

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This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conceptual debate on responsible innovation, and provides innovation practices and processes that can help to implement responsible innovation in the business context. Based on a systematic literature review of 72 empirical scholarly articles, it was possible to identify, analyse and synthesise empirical findings reported in studies on social, sustainable and responsible innovation practices in the business context. The synthesis of the included articles resulted in a refined framework for responsible innovation in the business context. This framework includes an overview of innovation practices and processes that can enhance the dimensions of responsible innovation: anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, deliberation, responsiveness and knowledge management. Additionally, knowledge gaps are identified and a research agenda for responsible innovation is proposed. This review can therefore serve as a next step in the theoretical and practical development of responsible innovation in general, and in the business context in particular.

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“…However, it has been criticized that normative or ethical aspects of sustainability have often been misrepresented or even disregarded [104]. Although conceptions of sustainability share a general normative outlook, they differ on what the desired state should look like and by which means (i.e., practices) it ought to be attained (e.g., [7,[105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113]). In other words, different societal actors have different worldviews and visions with regard to (pathways to) sustainability [114][115][116].…”

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Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously

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Abstract:The aim of this article is to complement research on transformations towards sustainability by drawing upon the innovation systems (IS) framework. The IS framework already serves as a suitable and influential basis for research on processes of technological innovation and economic change. We argue that improving the capacity of an IS framework for dealing with wicked problems and the normative complexity of sustainability requires a fundamental paradigm shift because in the current IS paradigm innovations are considered as per se desirable and in mostly technological terms. Therefore, we call for IS dedicated to transformations towards sustainability by opening up for systemic innovations beyond the technological dimension and by acknowledging that stakeholders have conflicting visions, interests, norms, and expectations with regard to sustainability goals. Taking the normative dimension of transformations towards sustainability seriously thus requires more explicit and integrative research on directionality, legitimacy, responsibility, and their interrelation in IS. The article concludes by proposing suggestions for future research based on IS-related approaches that can serve as building blocks for an IS framework capable of incorporating legitimate goal-orientation for transformative innovation by and for society.

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“…The drivers of eco-innovations have become important within the literature of ecological modernization (Díaz-García et al, 2015;Hojnik and Ruzzier, 2016). "Eco-innovation" is increasingly used in the literature to name innovations that drive environmental and economic goals (Carrillo-Hermosilla et al, 2009;Franceschini et al, 2016). Extant research on eco-innovation gives a high importance to the role of at least four drivers: regulatory push, technological push, market pull, and internal business aspects (Rennings, 2000;Rubik, 2005).…”

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Drivers for environmental technologies selection in the shipping industry: a case study of the North European Sulphur Emission Control Area

Hermann

2017

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Abstract:This study tackles the question: How do new air pollution regulations interact with other eco-innovation drivers in the adoption of environmental technologies in the shipping industry? In the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and the English Channel, short sea shipping is subject to strict requirements on sulphur emissions by the European Union and the International Maritime Organization after the creation of a Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA). The creation of this SECA creates a critical case for analyzing the interactions of the regulations with technological pull, market demand, and green business strategies. The study found that a globalized industrial sector, such as shipping, tends to oppose regional regulations. These regulations benefit from market conditions which slightly push the shipping companies to embrace environmental technologies when operational costs increase due to expenses such as increasing fuel prices. Meanwhile, voluntary initiatives like participating in eco-labelling schemes can motivate eco-innovations, especially cleaner-processes, as shipping firms need to increase fuel efficiency to reduce high operational costs within SECA sulphur limits. The research contributes to the ongoing debate about eco-innovation characteristics in different industrial sectors, but more specifically, it moves forward the proposition of dynamic interactions between regulation, technology, business and markets, which modify the dominant focus on market pull and technological push. Keywords:Sulphur; shipping industry; eco-innovation; environmental technologies; environmental regulation; MARPOL Authors Pre-print version, Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Hermann, R.R. 2017. 'Drivers for environmental technologies selection in the shipping industry: A case study of the North European Sulphur Emission Control Area '. Int. J. Environmental Technology and Management. 20 (3/4):139-162. Biographical note:Roberto Rivas Hermann holds a Ph.D. in Planning and Development from Aalborg University, Denmark. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Nord University Business School, Nord University, Norway. Roberto's work has focused on eco- R.R.Hermanninnovation and eco-entrepreneurship with emphasis on inter-organizational collaboration mechanisms, co-creation processes and the governance aspects of environmental and natural resource management.

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Unveiling scientific communities about sustainability and innovation. A bibliometric journey around sustainable terms

Cited by 122 publications

References 65 publications

Lessons for Responsible Innovation in the Business Context: A Systematic Literature Review of Responsible, Social and Sustainable Innovation Practices

Lessons for Responsible Innovation in the Business Context: A Systematic Literature Review of Responsible, Social and Sustainable Innovation Practices

Innovation Systems for Transformations towards Sustainability? Taking the Normative Dimension Seriously

Drivers for environmental technologies selection in the shipping industry: a case study of the North European Sulphur Emission Control Area

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