Producing Green Knowledge and Innovation

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 systemsnamely, the natural environment of society, economic system, media-based and culture-based publicand civil society, and political systemto create a sustainable knowledge economy.

Examines the eight essential elements of a green university, including green corporate governance Provides a model for greening a university modelled after the Quintuple Helix Model of Innovation Determines the scope of green knowledge and innovation through green universities

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.