knowledge based economy and sustainable development

Recycling Economy and Sustainable Development

Economic development is the main theme of social progress. By recalling the economic development, the necessity and inevitability of sustainable development is fully demonstrated. With the acceleration of economic globalization, the influence for sustainable development is increasing. There is a complex opposite and united relationship between economic globalization and sustainable development....

Innovation as a Factor (determinant) for Sustainable Development of Smes in the Knowledge-based Economy

1 Innovationen in Unternehmen ermöglichen die Entwicklung des Marktes und damit die Befriedigung der Bedürfnisse der Kunden. Jedoch ist festzustellen, dass der Innovationtransfer und die Innovationsimplementierung in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen extrem abhängig vom Stand der Forschung und der Entwicklung des Finanzkapitals in großen Unternehmen sind. „Innovation ist keine Garantie ...

Political Economy, Capitalism and Sustainable Development

After a critical review of conventional approaches to sustainability, this paper contrasts orthodox (neoclassical) economic theory with a political economy approach, arguing that such an approach focusing on the historically specific organizational form of production and the inherent characteristics of the capitalist mode of production is crucial for exploring the preconditions, the content and...

Sustainable Capital? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European “Knowledge-based Bio-economy”

As an EU policy agenda, the ―knowledge-based bio-economy‖ (KBBE) emphasizes bio-technoscience as the means to reconcile environmental and economic sustainability. This frames the sustainability problem as an inefficiency to be overcome through a techno-knowledge fix. Here ecological sustainability means a benign eco-efficient productivity using resources which are renewable, reproducible and th...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable development are very closely linked. The indigenous knowledge systems of the peoples of the South constitute the world largest reservoir of knowledege of the diverse species of plant and animal life on earth. For many centuries, their indigenous agricultural systems have utilized practices and techniques which embody, what one scientist has ca...