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Innovation for sustainability : African and European perspectives /

The innovation system theory has to deal with climate change as it generates the intellectual tools to promote development. A unified innovation system theory that integrates the eradication of threats to nature with the promotion of development is critically important to advance an original pedigre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muchie, Mammo (Autor, Editor )
Otros Autores: Baskaran, Angathevar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa : Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, 2012
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The uptake of environmentally sensitive innovation to transform production systems in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Climate debt owed to Africa : what to demand and how to collect?
  • Education, convergence and carbon dioxide growth per capita
  • Green markets of the future : an economic opportunity also for newly industrializing countries and South Africa?
  • Science for the future : challenges and methods for transdisciplinary sustainability research
  • Conceptualizing sustainable development as a global problem : the role of strategic knowledge
  • Why radical innovations fail : the case of technological change in German coal-fired power plants
  • In search of green knowledge : a cognitive approach to sustainable development
  • Innovation for sustainability in a changing world : The South African-German dialogue on science for sustainability
  • The ecological economics synthesis for sustainability : post scriptum conclusion.