Innovation biosphere : planet and brains in the digital and era / Eunika Mercier-Laurent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercier-Laurent, E. (Eunika), author.

Series:

FOCUS

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact charges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley : ISTE Ltd, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses those involved in research or R&D. It introduces the principles of eco-innovation and the importance of the impact of their activity. This topic is considered in the context of natural and digital ecosystems powered by intelligent assistants (technology). Chapter 1 positions the innovation as a process and component of ecosystems including research, enterprises, technology (digital ecosystems) and environment. Sustainable success is a condition of survival and an expectation of those who invest in innovation. Chapter 2 describes the main elements to consider and gives some tips. Chapter 3 presents some selected initiatives at the national and European level and provides a way of measuring success.

Contents:

""Table of Contents""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""1: Innovation Landscape and Fields""; ""1.1. From intensive industrialization to intensive innovation: consequences of global business""; ""1.2. Computer science, the Internet and mass media""; ""1.3. Medicine and biotechnologies""; ""1.4. Nanotechnologies""; ""1.5. Agriculture and food industry""; ""1.6. Knowledge city, smart city, green city and wise city""; ""1.7. Tourism and business travel""; ""1.8. Fashion victims""; ""1.9. Responsible innovation?""

""2: Innovation Ecosystems""""2.1. The innovation biosphere""; ""2.2. Some definitions""; ""2.3. Innovation life""; ""2.4. Barriers, constraints and paradoxes""; ""2.5. Some paradoxes""; ""2.6. Measuring benefits""; ""2.7. Trends and future innovation""; ""3: Challenges and Innovation Policies""; ""3.1. Challenges for the next decades""; ""3.2. Main challenges: global, European and French perspectives""; ""3.3. Innovation policy""; ""3.4. Matching policy and challenges""; ""4: Experimentations and Results""; ""4.1. Ubiquitous or sustainable innovation""

""4.2. Selected actions around the world""""4.3. Europe""; ""4.4. Experiments in France""; ""4.5. Results and perspectives""; ""5: Environment and Sustainable Success""; ""5.1. Know, appreciate and protect what we have""; ""5.2. Problem solving""; ""5.3. Innovating in harmony with environmental intelligence""; ""5.4. Conditions for sustainable success""; ""Conditions for a Sustainable Future""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""End User License Agreement""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2015).

ISBN:

9781119053897

1119053897

9781119053880

1119053889

OCLC:

910103561