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The term, "disruptive innovation" was popularized by the American academic Clayton Christensen and his collaborators beginning in 1995, [2] but the concept had been previously described in Richard N. Foster's book Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage and in the paper "Strategic responses to technological threats", [3] as well as by Joseph ...
One framework proposed by Clayton Christensen draws a distinction between sustaining and disruptive innovations. [23] Sustaining innovation is the improvement of a product or service based on the known needs of current customers (e.g. faster microprocessors, flat screen televisions).
Green engineering encompasses numerous ways to improve processes and products to make them more efficient from an environmental and sustainable standpoint. [5] Every one of these approaches depends on viewing possible impacts in space and time. Architects consider the sense of place. Engineers view the site map as a set of fluxes across the ...
The private sector, as the chief engine of economic activity on the planet, and a major source for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, must be involved in trying to achieve sustainability." Sustainopreneurship is a candidate to be the accentuating factor to give even more leverage to forces emerging from world of business activities to ...
The idea of eco-innovation is fairly recent. [1] One of the first appearances in the literature was in a 1996 book by Claude Fussler and Peter James. [2] In a subsequent article in 1997, Peter James defined eco-innovation as "new products and processes which provide customer and business value but significantly decrease environmental impacts". [3]
Sustainability is regarded as a "normative concept".[5] [22] [23] [2] This means it is based on what people value or find desirable: "The quest for sustainability involves connecting what is known through scientific study to applications in pursuit of what people want for the future."
Companies leading the way in sustainable business practices can take advantage of sustainable revenue opportunities: according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills the UK green economy will grow by 4.9 to 5.5 percent a year by 2015, [72] and the average internal rate of return on energy efficiency investments for large ...
The Innovator's Dilemma proved popular; not only was it reprinted, [5] but a follow-up book entitled The Innovator's Solution was published. [6] His books Disrupting Class [7] about education and The Innovator's Prescription [8] about health care both utilize ideas from The Innovator's Dilemma.