Community Innovation in Sustainable Development: A Cross Case Study
Although in sustainable development field, innovative
solutions have been sought worldwide by environmental groups,
academia, governments and companies for many years, recently,
citizens and communities have emerged as a new group and taken
more and more active role in this field. Many scholars call for more
research on the role of community and community innovation in
sustainable development. This paper is to respond to the calls. In
this paper, we first summarize a comprehensive set of innovation
principles. Then, we do a qualitative cross case study by comparing
three community innovation cases in three different areas of sustainable
development according to the innovation principles. Finally,
we summarize the case comparison and discuss the implications
to sustainable development. A unified role model and innovation
distribution map of community innovation are developed to better
understand community innovation in sustainable development..
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[2] K. Rennings, "Redefining innovation-eco-innovation research and the
contribution from ecological economics," Ecological economics, vol. 32,
no. 2, pp. 319-332, 2000.
[3] G. Seyfang and A. Smith, "Community action: a neglected site of
innovation for sustainable development?" WP EDM, pp. 06-10, 2006.
[4] ÔÇöÔÇö, "Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: towards a
new research and policy agenda," Environmental Politics, vol. 16, no. 4,
pp. 584-603, 2007.
[5] N. Bergman, P. Connor, N. Markusson, L. Middlemiss, and M. Ricci,
"Bottom-up, social innovation for addressing climate change."
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University Press New York, 1988, vol. 132.
[7] E. Von Hippel, Democratizing innovation. the MIT Press, 2005.
[8] A. Botero, S. Vihavainen, and K. Karhu, "From closed to open to what?:
an exploration on community innovation principles," in Proceedings
of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the
Ubiquitous Era. ACM, 2009, pp. 198-201.
[9] F. Berkes, "Community-based conservation in a globalized world,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 39,
p. 15188, 2007.
[10] M. Khan, A. Chhetri, and M. Islam, "Community-based energy model:
A novel approach to developing sustainable energy," Energy Sources,
Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 353-370,
2007.
[11] G. Seyfang, "Community action for sustainable housing: Building a lowcarbon
future," Energy Policy, 2009.
[12] R. Yin, Case study research: Design and methods. Sage Publications,
Inc, 2009.
[13] K. Eisenhardt, "Building theories from case study research," Academy
of management review, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 532-550, 1989.
[14] G. Lee and R. Cole, "From a firm-based to a community-based model
of knowledge creation: The case of the linux kernel development,"
Organization Science, pp. 633-649, 2003.
[15] R. Williams and D. Edge, "The social shaping of technology," Research
policy, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 865-899, 1996.
[16] H. Chesbrough, "The era of open innovation," Managing innovation and
change, vol. 127, 2006.
[17] D. Jacobs and J. Brand, Adding values: the cultural side of innovation.
ArtEZ Press, 2007.
[18] E. Rogers, Diffusion of innovations. Free Pr, 1995.
[19] eCars! Now. (cited 2011 February 18). [Online]. Available: http:
//ecars-now.wikidot.com/
[20] C. ScottHanson and K. ScottHanson, The cohousing handbook: Building
a place for community. New Society Pub, 2005.
[21] K. McCamant, C. Durrett, E. Hertzman, and C. Moore, Cohousing: a
contemporary approach to housing ourselves. Ten Speed Press, 1994.
[22] Cohousing. (cited 2011 February 18) The cohousing association of the
united states. [Online]. Available: http://www.cohousing.org/
[23] eCars! Now. (cited 2011 February 18) S¨ahk¨oautot-nyt!: Electric
cars-now! in english. [Online]. Available: http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng
[24] Samso. (cited 2011 February 18) Samso energy academy: Renewable
energy denmark. [Online]. Available: http://www.energiakademiet.dk/
default uk.asp
[25] G. Meltzer, Sustainable community: Learning from the cohousing model.
Trafford on Demand Pub, 2005.
[26] G. Mulgan, "The process of social innovation," Innovations: Technology,
Governance, Globalization, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 145-162, 2006.
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solutions have been sought worldwide by environmental groups,
academia, governments and companies for many years, recently,
citizens and communities have emerged as a new group and taken
more and more active role in this field. Many scholars call for more
research on the role of community and community innovation in
sustainable development. This paper is to respond to the calls. In
this paper, we first summarize a comprehensive set of innovation
principles. Then, we do a qualitative cross case study by comparing
three community innovation cases in three different areas of sustainable
development according to the innovation principles. Finally,
we summarize the case comparison and discuss the implications
to sustainable development. A unified role model and innovation
distribution map of community innovation are developed to better
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