Green technology and eco‐innovation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe seven case studies of university‐industry cooperative partnerships at Nizhny Novgorod Architecture and Civil Engineering State University in Russia. It examines the relationship between green technology and innovation in order to explore how green technologies are developed into successful eco‐innovations following the liberalisation policy which started in the 1990s in the Russian research and development (R&D) sector.Design/methodology/approach – The research adopts a case‐study approach and conducts cross‐case comparative analyses in order to develop insights into the evolution of green technology projects in what was formerly a closed area (Gorky city) prior to the market reforms.Findings – The technical empirical data included in the cases illustrate how eco‐innovations can arise incrementally from highly structured technical problem spaces, in contradiction with previously published literature which has tended to treat them as more creative and radi...

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