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Open Sustainability Innovation Gives Companies a Competitive Advantage

By GEP- Admin on September 20, 2011 Comments Off on Open Sustainability Innovation Gives Companies a Competitive Advantage crowdsourcing, Frank-Martin Belz, green innovation, Green Marketing, Ken Peattie, open innovation, sustainability, Sustainability innovation, sustainability marketing, sustainability marketing transformations

Makes the point that companies need a long-term and open approach to thinking about sustainability and innovation that will require companies to adopt a more collaborative perspective and a more open approach to innovation. The increasing adoption of open innovation is important in getting sustainability innovations out of market niches to allow them to spread across a whole industry sector.

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