Innovation for Sustainability

Nancy Bocken is Professor in Sustainable Business Management and Practice at IIIEE, Lund University, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, and Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Paavo Ritala is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland.Laura Albareda is Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at the School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. She is also Visiting Professor at Deusto Business School. Robert Verburg is an Associate Professor in Management and Director of the Management of Technology programme at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

“Readers interested in company level accounts of innovation will find this book very useful and both the book and its individual chapters are likely to stay relevant for years. The book admirably achieves what it sets out to do. … It is a book for those who want to know more about firm-level product and process innovation. I can certainly recommend the book for this purpose.” (Paul Upham, R&D Management, August 29, 2019)

• Chapter 1 – Introduction: Innovation for sustainability.- Chapter 2 – Innovation for sustainability: Skeptical, pragmatic, and idealist perspectives.- Chapter 3 - Innovation for sustainability research landscape: Bibliometric and topical analysis of the literature.- Chapter 4 - Environmental factors in business engagement in innovation for sustainability.- Chapter 5 - Circular business model innovation for sustainable development.- Chapter 6 - Business-driven ecological innovations in green growth strategies.- Chapter 7 – Leadership, innovation and sustainability.- Chapter 8 – Leadership and goal setting for sustainable innovation in large businesses.- Chapter 9 – Exploring the pitfalls of systemic innovations for sustainability.- Chapter 10 – Towards smart and sustainable business models in retail.- Chapter 11 - Business model innovation for sustainability through localism.- Chapter 12 - Identifying strategies for sustainable entrepreneurship.- Chapter 13 - Sustainable innovation measurement: Approaches and challenges.- Chapter 14 - Assessing the impact of sustainable business models: challenges, key issues and future research opportunities.- Chapter 15 - Reversing materiality: From a reactive matrix to a proactive SDG agenda.- Chapter 16 - Intentional design for diversity as pathway to scalable sustainability impact.- Chapter 17 - How strategic environmental goals influence product innovation.- Chapter 18 - Experimentation for sustainable innovation.- Chapter 19 - Experimenting with circular business models – a process-oriented approach .- Chapter 20 - Game-based approaches to sustainable innovation.- Chapter 21 – Circular Economy imaginaries for sustainable innovations.- Chapter 22 - The impact of digital technologies on innovating for sustainability.- Chapter 23 - Online platforms and the circular economy.