Introduction to Special Issue “Advances in Sustainability-Oriented Innovations”

Nuria González-Álvarez and Laura Cabeza-García
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Nuria González-Álvarez: Department of Business Administration, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, Spain
Laura Cabeza-García: Department of Business Administration, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 21, 1-5

Abstract: This Special Issue focuses on the study of Sustainability-Oriented Innovations (SOIs). Our purpose is to shed light on the SOIs literature regarding their determining factors, implications and new challenges for the future. In this editorial, we are delighted to present the three papers included in this Special Issue. Each of them tackles different issues related to SOIs having important academic and managerial implications. Two papers analyze the influence of SOIs on urban development and resource productivity, respectively, and the third studies SOIs determinants, in particular, cooperation networks. Moreover, two of the papers analyze SOIs considering territory (cities or countries) as their unit of analysis while the third focuses on firms. This denotes that SOIs’ actions are important whatever the level of analysis and as either a determinant or a consequence.

Keywords: sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs); sustainability; urban development; productivity; cooperation networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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