Managing Sustainable Innovation

Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia.

The book illuminates what hybrid organizations are and how they generate new ways of creating blended value to secure the well-being of future generations and preservation of ecological services. The book also discusses how sustainable innovation may offer creative solutions to societal issues, the sharing economy and the circular economy.

1. Managing Sustainable Innovation 2. Integrating the Base-of-the-Pyramid Business into Global Supply Chains 3. Indigenous Folkways, Subsistence Markets, and Rural Development in the Caribbean: A Case Study of a Social Bricoleur 4. Co-evolutionary Prospects and Sustainability 5. Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Innovation in SMEs in the Context of Small Countries 6. Sustainable Innovation Crossing Technological Borders 7. Circular Business Model: The Case of the Tire Recycling Plant in the Bío-Bío Chilean Region 8. Sustainable Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Innovations in the Queenstown Food Sector 9. Determinants of Sustainable Innovation Capacities for Transition Economies 10. Social Innovation and Sustainability: A Compared Case Study based on the Implementation and Evaluation of Small-scale Actions in Atlantic Regions 11. Rural Sustainable Innovation and Creative Industries: Case Study of Rural Tourism Households in Pirot, Serbia