The building sector is responsible for a high environmental impact, namely during construction, maintenance, demolition, and lifetime. It then urgent to develop tools guiding all stockholders make buildings more sustainable. In order the sustainability assessment of building, it necessary survey most appropriate parameters this analysis organize them hierarchically. first certification rating w...

The following paper describes a possible way for the development of an assessment to classify business and industrial sites within the aspect of sustainability. Initially, a brief overview about the current status of the research in the field of sustainability is given. In transition to the Austrian sustainability dimensions, issue-relevant contents, with regard to this paper, will be carved ou...

Idea Management Systems (IMS) manage the innovation lifecycle from the moment of invention until ideas are implemented in the market. During the lifecycle the IMS supports collaboration, allows idea enrichment with comments, contextual data, or connected to other relevant ideas. Semantic technologies can improve the knowledge management capabilities of IMSs allowing relevant information to be e...

Start-ups, among other enterprises, play a major role in the development and/or commercialization of new technologies and the development of national economies, given that firms are the innovation locus for an entire society. In Italy, a recent regulatory intervention has focused on start-ups creating a framework where innovative start-ups are defined and regulated. Among innovative start-ups, ...

The assessment of sustainability in cropping system is an important issue for natural resources management and environmental protection. Incorporating the geographical information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) technologies, an initial idea of the crop sustainability assessing system was thus proposed, based on ecosystem services value (ESV) assessing criterions. The system is basically c...

Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, Berlin), as well as the anonymous reviewer for their most useful comments on the paper. The usual disclaimers apply. 2 Abstract We present the results of an online survey on the state of corporate sustainability in German companies. The survey focused on the meaning and relevance of sustainability to German companies, the motivations behind their commi...

Sustainability challenges in our time such as climate change, food security, water consumption, pollution,environmental degradation and other socio-economic concerns are the main challenges for present and futuregenerations. Therefore, society is increasingly sensitive to sustainability issues and seeks information to achieve sustainability. Nevertheless, in universities, still envi...

Sustainability challenges in our time such as climate change, food security, water consumption, pollution,environmental degradation and other socio-economic concerns are the main challenges for present and futuregenerations. Therefore, society is increasingly sensitive to sustainability issues and seeks information to achieve sustainability. Nevertheless, in universities, still envi...