Sustainable Innovations in Energy Entrepreneurship
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2022) | Viewed by 2515
Special Issue Editors
Interests: innovation; sustainability; sustainable innovation; sustainability transitions; process studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy production and consumption are responsible for a considerable part of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. Most of these energies come from fossil sources. Rapid and far-reaching change from fossil energy to renewable energy can significantly contribute to sustainability (IPCC report, 2018). Sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives in the green energy sector through sustainable innovations can serve as examples of how entrepreneurs and ventures can alleviate the externalities created by energies and resource exploitation (Johnson and Schaltegger, 2020). For example, by selling certificates documenting CO2 emission reductions through planting trees, reducing footprint carbon, developing products using solar energy, transforming production waste into energy, etc., sustainable entrepreneurs and ventures have created a market for carbon emission compensation (York, Hargrave and Pacheco, 2016; York and Venkataraman, 2010). Sustainable innovations are defined as innovations that significantly reduce their negative or improve their positive economic, environmental, and/or social effects, such as technology, product or service, organizational or commercial methods, and institutional change (Aka, 2019; Barbieri et al., 2016; Franceschini et al., 2016; OECD, 2010). Such innovations have attracted increasing interest in the transition toward sustainability at multiple levels (international, national, regional, sectorial, organizational, individual). However, designing, creating, and managing such sustainable innovations can be a challenge for engineers, entrepreneurs, managers, and governments. The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage and mobilize researchers to prompt enriching debates, exchange useful information, and provide transferable knowledge around sustainable innovations in energy entrepreneurship.
Prof. Dr. Kadia Georges Aka
Prof. Dr. Alidou Ouedraogo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainability
- Energy sector
- Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable innovation
- Governance
- Transition
- Business model
- Circular economy
- Multiple levels analysis
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