ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND GOVERNANCE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Sylvie Faucheux and Isabelle Nicolaï
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Sylvie Faucheux: REEDS - Centre international de Recherches en Economie écologique, Eco-innovation et ingénierie du Développement Soutenable - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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Abstract: An evolutionary economics perspective between technological innovation and public policy is applied to analyse the relationships between technological change, sustainable development and industrial competitiveness. This leads us to emphasise the fundamental role that firm's strategies vis-à-vis the endogenisation of technological change can play for giving effect to `win-win' strategies. However, allowing industrial competition to become the only factor determining `win-win' strategies could lead to `locked' technological and social options being chosen which do not contribute to overall goals of ecological, social and economic sustainability. For this reason we introduce, as complements to competitiveness, the requirement of new forms of governance in pursuit of ecological-economic sustainability.

Keywords: Stakeholder; Technological change; Competitiveness; Cooperative agreements; Governance; Innovation; Environmental strategy; Firms; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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Published in Ecological Economics, 1998, 27 (3), pp.243-256. ⟨10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00176-6⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00176-6

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