Research Guides: MGMT6085: Sustainability Innovation: Week 6

Week 6 Readings

Week 6: Technological Innovation for Sustainability

Technology patterns, diffusion of innovations, Rogers’ S-Curve concept
What is sustainable technology innovation?
Examples of technological innovations directed towards sustainability
Clean technologies and sustainable product development

Learning Outcome: Students explain (based on several examples of technological innovations directed towards sustainability) how sustainable, innovative (clean) technologies can reduce environmental and ecological risks such as waste, pollution or climate change, including the creation of sustainable products and services in support of a regenerative economy.

Valente, T. & Rogers, E. (1995). The Origins and Development of the Diffusion of Innovations Paradigm as an Example of Scientific Growth, Science Communication. 16 (3): 242–273.
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (4th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.
Schiederig, T., Tietze, F. & Herstatt, C. (2012). Green Innovation in Technology and Innovation Management – An Exploratory Literature Review, R& D Management 42(2)
Maier-Rigaud, F.P. (2006). Prokent/Tomra, a Textbook Case? Abuse of Dominance Under Perfect Information, Competition Policy Newsletter, No. 2 (Summer),
Schillebeckxs, S. (2024): Handprint, in T. Menkhoff et al. (eds.), Singapore Smart Nation – Urban Transformation, Sustainability and Inclusiveness (World Scientific Publishing).
Case Study 1: Tomra’s Reverse-Vending Machines (see above)
Case Study 2: The Ocean Clean Up Project
Case Study 3: Handprint

MGMT6085: Sustainability Innovation: Week 6

Week 6 Readings

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