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Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

Urban growth and the increase of the human environmental imprint has led to a growing interest in urban sustainability, a field mainly addressed by urban ecology and urban metabolism studies. The realisation that the urban material and energy flows are mai ...

2017

Societal impacts through participation: a critical investigation of participation as an enabler of societal impact of sustainability research

Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In this contribution we focus on the interlinkages between participatory knowledge production and sustainability transformations by proposing an empirical enquiry into transdisciplinary (TD) research projects. With hindsight to (un)sustainability the limit ...

2017

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Christopher Tucci, Bettina Lynda Bastian

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Skilled Indians in Europe: knowledge transfer and social impact

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Within the migration and development nexus, the recognition of skilled migrants as active agents of transformation, which function as bridges for the circulation of knowledge, ideas and talents between countries, has gained importance in recent times. Whil ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

Towards the implementation of a safety education program in a teaching and research institution

Thierry Meyer

Education is a continuing process for improving the level of knowledge including the pro-cess of learning and acquiring information. It is widely believed that constant exposure tonew ideas and skills makes people better workers, thinkers, and societal con ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

(De‑)Constructing Participation at the Science‑Policy Interface: A Critical Inquiry

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

This contribution puts the spotlight on participation of heterogeneous actors and diverse forms of expertise in knowledge production and its implications for governance of complex problems. With regard to tackling complex ‘global’ problems, multifaceted de ...

2017

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille

In light of the environmental consequences of linear production and consumption processes, the circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum as a concept and practice, promoting closed material cycles by focusing on multiple strategies from material recycling ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2017

Institutional Robotics Institutions for Social Robots

José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The way human beings engage with material things in our environment is experiencing rapid modification. Human and non-human, natural and artificial creatures are on the verge of building unprecedented relations of sociability. This paper takes this process ...

Springer2015

Electronic systems for health management

Giovanni De Micheli

Several important societal and economic world problems can be addressed by the smart use of technology. The past 40 years have witnessed the realization of computational systems and networks, rooted in our ability to craft complex integrated circuits out o ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Fostering Sustainable Innovation Within Organizations

Peter Michael Vogel

Over the past years many corporate business leaders have started to shift their strategy from a pure profit seeking one towards a balance in simultaneously striving to achieve economic, environmental and social goals (Elkington 1998; Preuss 2007; Roth 2009 ...

Springer2014

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