Innovation investment and sustainable development

Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Argentina

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national econ...

Science, Technological Innovation and Sustainable Development

First of all we discuss the different conceptual interpretations of sustainable development among the scientific community. Afterwards we use the epistemological concept of research traditions in order to explain this diversity of interpretations and its impacts on the prospects for technological development. As a third step we develop an approach to sustainable technology and show why such an ...

Activity at work, innovation and sustainable development.

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss a French-Brazilian project (CAPES-COFECUB) centered on the relations between sustainable development, innovation and changes in work activities that accompany these innovations for sustainable development. Sustainable development calls for an integrated approach of three dimensions: social equity, economic viability and environmental sustainabilit...

Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Bioeconomic Perspective

Sustainability is a relationship, or balancing act, between many factors (social, environmental and economic realities and constraints) that are constantly changing (Munasinghe & McNeely, 1995; Pirages, 1994). Ensuring sustainability over time means maintaining a dynamic balance among a growing human population and its demands, the changing capabilities of the physical environment to absorb the...

Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development