Adoption of Environmental Innovations The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement
How do small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt environmental innovations? Do they have the necessary internal competence? Is any support offered by external parties (i.e. network involvement)? What are the policy implications? This book is based on extensive fieldwork, conducted in four trad...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: | Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Executive summary
- General analysis
- Towards a heuristic model of adoption
- Cross-sector Analysis
- The Innovation Triangle
- Country-specific aspects of adoption behaviours
- Actors and factors of the adoption process
- Policy implications
- Conclusion
- Sector-based case-study analyses
- Electroplating industry
- Printing industry (pre-press)
- Textile-finishing industry
- Industrial painting
- I ENVIS Partner meetings
- II Methodology and project design
- III Questionnaire
- IV Technical survey