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Innovations for Sustainability: The Distinct Role of Grassroots Innovations

Innovations for Sustainability: The Distinct Role of Grassroots Innovations

Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 34
ISBN13: 9781522535003|ISBN10: 1522535004|EISBN13: 9781522535010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3500-3.ch002
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Marco Tortora. "Innovations for Sustainability: The Distinct Role of Grassroots Innovations." Grassroots Sustainability Innovations in Sports Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities, IGI Global, 2018, pp.23-56. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3500-3.ch002

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M. Tortora (2018). Innovations for Sustainability: The Distinct Role of Grassroots Innovations. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3500-3.ch002

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Marco Tortora. "Innovations for Sustainability: The Distinct Role of Grassroots Innovations." In Grassroots Sustainability Innovations in Sports Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3500-3.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter introduces innovation as the key element to promote sustainability from the bottom. In doing so, the chapter aims to find if there is just one possible ways to contribute in innovative terms to the path towards sustainability or if there should be different ways and strategies. Starting from the necessary relationship between sustainability and innovation, the chapter presents different typologies of innovation to focus finally on that special kind of innovation that generates at the bottom level of society in local areas defined as niches in the Transition Studies literature. This is the case of grassroots innovation. The chapter presents its main characteristics in order to distinguish it from sustainable innovations, defined in both theoretical and managerial terms, and social innovations.

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