Global economic growth, recently fuelled by Asia's emerging
economies, has greatly accelerated the accumulation of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere and boosted demand for scarce natural
resources, including energy, food and mineral raw materials. These
developments are pushing the planet close to its ecological
boundaries. Transforming the world economy towards sustainability,
while ensuring decent levels of resource use for all global
citizens, is the greatest challenge of our time. This book explores
how innovation systems need to be adapted to successfully confront
these challenges. The first chapter introduces the concept of
sustainability-oriented innovation systems which highlights the
systematic differences between systems that have developed along
current resource-intensive technological trajectories and those
that address the impending environmental mega-problems. The
subsequent articles present case studies of sustainability-oriented
innovations in a number of policy areas, including energy
efficiency, electric mobility and generation of renewable energy,
in China and India. These case studies confirm the specificities of
innovation systems geared towards a green techno-economic paradigm.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation
and Development.
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