TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE FOSTERING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Evolutionary Theorising on Technological Change and Sustainable Development

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Technological Progress Towards Sustainable Development

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 ...

Making technological innovation work for sustainable development.

This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operating simultaneously from local to global scales....

Strategic technological innovation for sustainable development

Technological innovation can be highly instrumental in achieving sustainable development. How well does technology innovation research address the needs of sustainable development and in what directions does this research need to move to usher in sustainable development? We use co-word analysis in existing research publications to map the intellectual structure of the field of ‘strategic techno...