Framing Sustainability Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Key Takeaways

• Business practices have moved along a continuum, with an increasing attention to environmental, social, and health concerns.
• Corporate practice has evolved from rudimentary pollution control to product design changes that take into consideration the full life cycle of products including their energy and material inputs.
• As a consequence of new knowledge and evolutionary learning, sustainability issues are now in the forefront as companies experiment with ways to optimize performance across economic, social, and environmental factors.