Eco-Innovation and the Economics of Innovation in Environmental Policy and Practice
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 235
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental policy; public choice economics; energy economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The academic literature on sustainability and environmental policy has increasingly turned its attention to how entrepreneurship and innovation can act as catalysts for sustainability and better environmental policy. That attention, while productive, opens the necessity for greater examinations of those innovations and the economics that underlie them.
A recent plethora of entrepreneurial innovations, especially those that engage in actions outside traditional regulatory approaches, have been shown to have significant potential to improve environmental outcomes. We hope that authors examine this wide breadth of entrepreneurship and innovation in sustainability.
In this Special Issue, we invite authors to examine the economics of innovation in the environment. Analyses of innovative policy approaches, non-regulatory approaches, and market-focused innovations are invited. This applies to both novel innovations as well as examinations of existing ones. Authors should examine both the innovation and the economics that underlie them, as well as how those innovations impact sustainability.
Empirical authors using quantitative or qualitative methodologies are also invited to submit theory-driven examinations surrounding the underlying economics of innovation in sustainability.
Dr. Ryan M. Yonk
Prof. Dr. Ravi Roy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- innovation
- sustainable systems
- free market environmentalism
- evaluation
- environmental economics
- regulatory reform
- sustainability
- markets
- voluntary environmentalism
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