- Title
- Environment, innovation and sustainable development: Introduction to an interdisciplinary approach
- Creator
- Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38487
- Identifier
- vital:5044
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3917/jie.008.0003
- Identifier
- ISSN:2032-5355
- Abstract
- The disappointing outcome from the United Nations Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change in December 2009 affected many social researchers who had hoped that the world leaders would shine a guiding light towards a sustainable development paradigm shift in society. A guiding light that would provide a clear pathway for all the world’s citizens to an environmentally safe and equitable “Spaceship Earth” (Boulding, 1966). Much discussion arose after this failed summit about the need for ‘bottom-up’ adaptation and resilience as the alternative. Valuable as such an approach is to address the environmental concerns, its incremental change and modest institutional reforms limit the extent of sustainable development. Paradigm shift requires creative destruction of the type Joseph Schumpeter advocated when in times of crisis. Innovation lies at the heart of such a radical approach. Based on the need to raise the profile of this innovation approach to sustainable development, the Research Network on Innovation – the sponsor of this journal – decided to organise the next biennial Spirit of Innovation conference around the theme ‘Environment, Innovation and Sustainable Development’. Thus was that on the 7th and 8th October 2010, the “Spirit of Innovation IV” Forum was held at the Euromed Management School in Marseille.
- Relation
- Journal of Innovation Economics Vol. 2, no. 8 (2011), p. 3-10
- Rights
- Copyright De Boeck University
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1503 Business and Management; 1402 Applied Economics; 1608 Sociology; Climate change; Environment
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