Andrea Bacher

Nation-wide Eco-innovation: Framework Conditions Determining Successful Cooperations Between the Private and Public Sector in Support of the Un Millennium Development Goals Andrea Bacher

This book analyzes framework conditions and circumstances determining the successful development and diffusion of eco-innovation in a country and the role that eco-innovations can play to support a country's sustainable development. Eco-innovation depends significantly on factors determined by cooperation between governments and the private-sector, in terms of macro-economic and regulatory context, education and training system, infrastructure and communication, market conditions. Within this book, also the role of public-private partnerships to achieve through eco-innovations the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is reviewed.