Promoting Eco-innovations to Leverage Sustainable Development of Eco-industry and Green Growth

By Angshuman Sarkar. 2013

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In the modern world, ecologyand the economy are on cross roads. With the increasingpace of globalization and economic liberalization, giving birth to the rapid growth ofconsumerism by the modern civilization,there is growing consciousness to movegradually towards green growth with sustainability. This is now becoming possible byenhancing eco-consciousness both among theproducers as well as the consumers. Thechosen path is obviously to go in for more and more eco-innovations to providecomplementarily to industrialproduction without sacrificing much on the production aswell as economic front. Renewable alternate technologies – widely known as eco-technologies, are now being developed withmassive investment on RD which in turn, are getting increasingly organized asa chain of eco-industry, byconstantly evolving replicableas well as sustainable eco-industrial models in the emergingsectors of economy, prominently in the EU countries.The paper takes a holistic and strategic review on how the Eco-innovations and their eco-specific promotional and developmental efforts are stimulating the sustainabledevelopment of Eco-industriesand enhancing Green growth bysetting up of demonstrableEco-industrial models in multi-sectoral areas in Europe and the other parts of the world.The paper also provides a brief account of various corporate and entrepreneur initiativestaken in developing sustainable Eco-industrial business models and the methodologies tomeasure the impact of eco-innovation projects.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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• Barriers to smart waste management for a circular economy in China (2019, background): “The purpose of circularity of resources is to incorporate the perspectives of industrial symbiosis, service ecosystems, resource-based productivity, and functional alignment to help to ensure that societies will function sustainably (Chertow, 2007; Seuring and Muller, 2008; Sarkar, 2013; Batista et ”
• The driving effect of internal and external environment on green innovation strategy-The moderating role of top management’s environmental awareness (2019, background): “At the same time, products can be sold at high prices to form products differentiation advantage (Sarkar, 2013).”