Producing Green Knowledge and Innovation: A Framework for Greening Universities

by Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa Liyanage

Overview

The knowledge and innovation meant for knowledge-based economies (KBEs) are branded as green knowledge and innovation/ethical human capital, blended with the natural system as modeled by the Quintuple Helix Model of Innovation. However, due to bureaucratic challenges and myths, conventional universities produce knowledge and innovation in the sense of traditional disciplinary knowledge, which are not adequate to meet the goals of sustainable development.

This book provides a model for greening a university which in turn can produce green knowledge and innovation in the mainstream knowledge production process. This model, which is based on research, can be adopted by the conventional universities in other regions. Such a process results in providing benefits to stakeholders of the university at the micro-level. At the macro-level, it blends with the other knowledge systems—namely, the natural environment of society, economic system, media-based and culture-based publicand civil society, and political system—to create a sustainable knowledge economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030978495
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2022
Series:	Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shantha Indrajith is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management Department at Botho University (Gaborone, Botswana). He started out as a practicing lawyer with a special interest in environmental law.

Table of Contents

1. Associated Problem with Greening Universities.- 2. Scope for Green Knowledge & Innovation.- 3. Ethics For Greening Universities.- 4. Institutional Change For Greening Universities.- 5. In Search of a Framework for Greening University-Document Analysis.- 6. In Search of Framework for Greening University-Thematic Analysis.- 7. Processes of Green Knowledge and Innovation at Universities.- 8. Green University- Management theory: Process approach.- 9. Green University-Management Theory: Systems Approach.- 10. Methodology.