Innovation in a company committed to sustainability culture

  1. Alvarez, M. J.
  2. Jaca, C.
  3. Ormazabal, M.
  4. Rincon, J.
Book:
Ensuring sustainability. New challenges for organizational engineering

Publisher: Springer

ISSN: 2198-0772,  2198-0780

ISBN: 9783030959661,  9783030959678

Year of publication: 2022

Pages: 23-33

Type: Book chapter

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95967-8_3 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

Sustainable development goals

Abstract

Sustainability and the circular economy are the answer to today's challenge of resource depletion and waste generation. The transition to circular economy requires technological and process innovations: However, the capacity for innovation has often been a point of difficulty, and the problem is worse in small-sized companies because of the scarcity of resources. Our aim is to show how a company committed to sustainability overcomes the obstacles in the innovation process.

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