Eco-innovation initiatives include eco-ideation processes for proposing ideas that are innovative and represent an environmental improvement. The evaluation of the results has been focused on evaluating these two aspects, but it is necessary to know how related factors, such as thinking profile group members, influence generation concepts during creative process. This study proposes a metric an...

Tensions between economy and environmental issues due to hyper and mass production leads to reflection about a new model of innovation. To shift from intensive innovation to sustainable innovation, we propose an approach which involves the design of a sustainable product’s diffusion system. Our hypothesis is that both the product and the business model should be redesigned in tandem, combining ...

The bio-thermodynamic structures of a mixed native species plantation, a conifer plantation and an Acacia mangium plantation in Southern China were quantified over a period of 15 years based on eco-exergy methods. The efficiencies of structural development and maintenance were quantified through an integrated application of eco-exergy and emergy methods. The results showed that the storage of e...

The swift decline in the quantity and quality of natural resources public’s increased awareness about it is putting steep pressure on manufacturing services firms to follow eco-friendly practices. United Nations has made imperative for organizations ensure sustainability their operations. This study investigates whether management system within an organization helps them achieve environmental i...

Sustainability concerns are gaining ground as a better way to do business, because of its contribution to the triple bottom lineeconomically, environmentally, and socio-culturally (Graci & Dodds, 2008; Taylor, 2008). From this motive, the term Green has evolved in various business sectors with aim to substitute the use of toxic materials with non-toxic materials and non-sustainable practices/pr...

Eco-innovation denotes developing green practices using environmentally friendly innovative approaches or technologies. Although eco-innovation has been broadly applied in different industries, such as low-carbon production and manufacturing, how to implement innovation education for sustainable development (ESD) rarely studied. Therefore, this research considered a reflective cooperative learn...

The health care industry with its overburdening reliance on innovation, and patents, depends on medicinal ecological knowledge to derive eco-friendly products with minimum side effects from plants and other natural genetic resources. Most indigenous and local communities are situated in world’s most biological rich and diverse, areas with abundance in natural resources, however economically dis...

PKM partners are PKK women's group AthaNia RT.24 in Berangas Timur Village, Alalak District, Barito Kuala Regency, South Kalimantan Province. Waste management is still an environmental problem, one of which RT.24. Supported by the condition with minimal knowledge, it adds to problems related waste management. The objectives this community service activity 1) Increase knowledge about management,...