Die Automobilbranche durchläuft aktuell einen fundamentalen Wandel. Etablierte Akteure haben globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke rund um die Technologie des Verbrennungsmotors aufgebaut. Diese geraten aufgrund immer ambitionierterer Klimaziele jedoch zunehmend unter Druck. Gleichzeitig schreitet...

Die Weltwirtschaft steuert in Richtung ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Aufgrund einer immer stringenteren umwelt- und klimapolitischen Regulierung setzen sich neue nachhaltige Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle durch. Diese wiederum verändern Wettbewerbsbedingungen und Standortvorteile. Kluge...

Soil provides multiple benefits for human well-being that are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment on the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. In an attempt to reduce complexity for respondents, we express...

While digital transformations are taking place, we still have limited understanding as to how ecosystems and supply chains differ from a theoretical standpoint and how they relate practically. We study the evolution of the concept of ecosystems through a systematic review of the literature to...

Die Automobilbranche durchläuft aktuell einen fundamentalen Wandel. Etablierte Akteure haben globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke rund um die Technologie des Verbrennungsmotors aufgebaut. Diese geraten aufgrund immer ambitionierterer Klimaziele jedoch zunehmend unter Druck. Gleichzeitig schreitet...

Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express...

Purpose - The rapid adoption of the ecosystem concept in innovation contexts has led to a proliferation of differing uses. Scholars need to be crystal clear which concept of the ecosystem they are using to facilitate communication between scholars and allow for cumulativeness and creativity....

Purpose - Innovation ecosystems can emerge and grow organically, but the process can also be managed through conscious intervention. Therefore, this study observes different motivations and expectations for each group of actors. The lack of alignment between actors could have a negative...

Landscape composition has a crucial role in determining ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Human activities (e.g. urban expansion or agricultural intensification) have strongly modified the natural environment and ecosystem integrity. This paper presents an exemplary application of the...

Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystems productivity generating negative impacts on the global economy. Even though the economy is dependent on biodiversity or its ecological processes, few companies develop Biodiversity Conservation Actions (BCA) to benefit ecosystems, despite the growing number...

Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...

This study examines the impacts of ecosystem degradation on social welfare, focusing on the mangrove--fishery linkage in Indonesia. Using nationally representative household data combined with satellite information on spatiotemporal mangrove loss, the study finds that fishery households...

Soil enzymes are the most potent bioactive components of forest ecosystems. They are involved in carbon and nutrient cycling, and the ratio of ligninase to cellulase activity can be used to effectively track changes in the soil carbon (C) pools for microbial assimilation. However, our...

The products and the variety of direct and indirect benefits that humans receive from nature and the various ecosystems (agricultural, forest, grass, mountain, river, marine, etc.) are commonly known as ecosystem services. Agricultural ecosystems of different types and their specific...

Ecosystem business models are becoming widespread in the modern economy; their potential is increasingly understood by financial institutions. Banks become part of the ecosystems and some of them initiate their creation, seeing in this business model an opportunity for their development....

The Brazilian agricultural commodities market and the agribusiness sector are facing an increasing international demand for improved environmental standards, such as those regarding climate change and biodiversity loss. Although there are many studies on the structural determinants of...

The report is organized in four chapters that together provide a comprehensive assessment of entrepreneurship and startup performance in Romania. Chapter one examines the context of entrepreneurship in Romania through a cross-country comparison that covers key outcomes and structural pillars of...

[Gesamtfazit] Als Fazit dieser Arbeit ist festzustellen, dass die eingangs genannten Probleme Trittbrettfahrer, Verschmutzung und Übernutzung nicht vollständig auf die Theorie des Menschen als Homo oeconomicus zurückzuführen sind. Die Experimente konnten unterschiedliche Verhaltensweisen der...

Mobilitäts- und damit zusammenhängende Umweltthemen werden bislang kaum explizit für Kleinstädte beforscht. Im Fokus stehen Raumtypen mit hoher (Großstadt) bzw. geringer (ländlicher Raum) Nutzerdichte. Der Beitrag fasst den Forschungsstand für Kleinstädte zusammen und argumentiert, dass...

The First Green Building Movement that marked the beginning of an ideological revolutionof the era occurred in the Late 19th Century. Climate Change and Global Warming have alwaysbeen a major concern for humanity and justify the need for the development of innovative andgreener technologies to...

Crises reveal challenges embedded in contemporary rigid business models especially vividly. However, the change in consumer behavior is perpetual even in stable conditions. For example, demand for accountability of products and services is constantly increasing.Efficiently meeting the evolving...

The implementation of the “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” strategy in 2015 has led to the establishment of a mutually organic innovation ecosystem through various platforms among the government, corporations, VCs, universities, and research institutes. In addition, in the process of...

This report analyzes the start-up ecosystem in Tokyo and the greater surrounding area in Japan in the transition of the innovation model to a hybrid of traditional public sector-university-corporation research and development (R and D) combined with start-up agile innovation. It first introduces...