Innovation is not always for the best and sometimes changes which seem positive at the time turn out to have hidden or unexpected consequences. Richard Owen and colleagues have been looking at this challenge and have developed a framework for thinking about ‘responsible innovation’. You can find a link to the (open access) core article
Sustainability
Sustainability-led innovation toolkit
This toolkit contains various tools which can help deal with the challenges of innovation management for sustainability Click on the link for more details on a particular tool Value stream analysis Value analysis Scenarios
Michael Pitts interview
Michael Pitts is Sustainability Manager with the UK Technology Strategy Board (now called InnovateUK). In this interview he talks about some of the challenges around sustainability and innovation. A transcript of the interview is available here You can find out more about the organization here:
Green buildings
green building ATKINS_Case_Study2 (1) This is a case study describing the approach taken by the engineering consultancy Atkins to the design of green buildings.
Green supply chains
Green-Innovation-Management This is a case study of green supply chain management in the automobile industry.
Natura
Natura case. This is a case of a Brazilian company which has grown significantly on the back of providing sustainable cosmetics products and related services.

Activities

Cases

Deeper Dives
- Sector Innovation Patterns
- Search strategies for peripheral vision
- Responsible innovation framework
- Policy Deployment Cases
- Intelligent design
- High involvement innovation – deep dive
- Deep dive: Frugal innovation
- Deep dive – Supply chain learning
- Deep dive – Servitization
- Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI
