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Facilitating Sustainable Innovations - Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development June 26-28, 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Sustainability Considerations & Triple-Helix Cooperation in Regional Innovation Systems.
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Facilitating Sustainable Innovations - Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development June 26-28, 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Sustainability Considerations & Triple-Helix Cooperation in Regional Innovation Systems Reine Karlsson, Professor Ecodesign, Research Director, TEM Foundation at Lund University, Lund, Sweden Mikael Backman, Project leader, Øresund Environment Academy & Senior research fellow, IIIEE, Lund University Lund, Sweden AnnaKarin Djupenström, Business Excellence Specialist, Stora Enso Oyj, Helsinki, Finland
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The need for change to achieve sustainable success New goals Business idea Business as usual
People can grow as “drivers”, it they are trusted and have freedom of action, and appropriate instruments for “navigation”.
Different dimensions of investments • Money - to reduce future costs and improve the future added value, • Present environmental load - to reduce future environmental loads and improve the renewable resource production and • Present social capital - in reduction of social risks and to improve the build up of new social capital.
The sustaianbility value of our learnings is dependent on their future usefulness Future need for different abilities Learnings Present activities
Facilitating Sustainable Innovations - Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development June 26-28, 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands How can investment thinking be integrated in the core of the environmental and social dimensions of the sustainability science? Sustainability Considerations & Triple-Helix Cooperation in Regional Innovation Systems Reine Karlsson, Mikael Backman & AnnaKarin Djupenström