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New Opportunities and Challenges for Green Technology Innovation

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 5362

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Dr. Xingwei Li

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College of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611830, China
Interests: construction and demolition waste; industrial ecology; green behavior; environmental psychology; green development; environmental management; supply chain management
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Dear Colleagues,

Green technology innovation is very important for different countries or regions, industries, and enterprises to enhance value and achieve sustainable development. Although scholars have made progress in green technology innovation, there are still many unresolved sciences in this field. Therefore, there is an urgent need to adopt diverse theories and methods to reveal the progress of green technology innovation in different countries or regions, industries, and enterprises. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of green technology innovation and their applications in diverse areas. Specifically, it aims to provide new contributions to green technology innovation in different industries, e.g., construction, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and agriculture. We welcome new discoveries that reveal green technology innovation from the perspectives of policy, strategy, network, behavior, efficiency, and performance. We welcome contributions based on theoretical foundations and using quantitative and qualitative methods, and encourage authors to provide empirical and theoretical research papers, critical literature reviews, and interdisciplinary research.

Dr. Xingwei Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • green innovation
  • environmental innovation
  • innovation strategy
  • innovation Network
  • innovation Behavior
  • innovation efficiency
  • innovation performance

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The Role of Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy for Sustainable Operations: The Case of Bike Industry
by Chiu-Yen Shen, Yung-Fu Huang, Ming-Wei Weng, I-Sung Lai and Hung-Fu Huang
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(10), 5986; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13105986 - 12 May 2023
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In this paper, sustainable design seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, and the health and comfort of building occupants, thereby improving financial performance. The basic objectives of sustainability are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive [...] Read more.
In this paper, sustainable design seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, and the health and comfort of building occupants, thereby improving financial performance. The basic objectives of sustainability are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments. A sustainable alternative to this production system is Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and circular economy (CE). The contribution of this paper is integrating sustainable production and design decisions of a supply chain in the adoption of I4.0 aimed at cost minimization, in which the decision variables include the production rate of engineered-to-order (ETO) components, design time of general components, and time period of advertising and sales promotions. The validation of the implementation of CE and its production and sale strategies are demonstrated through I4.0. The results presented in this paper may have significant practical value, notably with respect to manufacturers in the bike industry. Full article
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Supply Chain Management Maturity and Business Performance: The Balanced Scorecard Perspective
by Mirjana Pejić Bach, Amir Klinčar, Ana Aleksić, Sanda Rašić Jelavić and Jusuf Zeqiri
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(4), 2065; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13042065 - 05 Feb 2023
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This paper analyzes the connection between supply chain management maturity (SCMM) and business performance in light of the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework. The goal is to explore the relationship between SCMM and business performance from the financial and customer, innovation and learning, and [...] Read more.
This paper analyzes the connection between supply chain management maturity (SCMM) and business performance in light of the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework. The goal is to explore the relationship between SCMM and business performance from the financial and customer, innovation and learning, and internal processes perspectives. Industry characteristics (technological dynamism and the level of state support) are examined to determine their moderating effects. The survey was carried out on a sample of organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina to test if the BSC approach can be a relevant framework for assessing the effects of SCMM on performance, and whether, as in many countries’ political legacies, the role of the government is significant in this relation. PLS-SEM was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The obtained research results confirm a positive relationship between SCMM and business performance from the BSC perspective. This relation is strengthened when an organization operates in an industry with higher technological dynamism. Interestingly, the results confirm that the level of state support does not influence the contribution of SCMM to business performance. This paper provides a more comprehensive view of the role of SCMM and an additional understanding of its contribution to multiple perspectives of business performance. Furthermore, the relevance of industry characteristics for SCMM and business performance has been illustrated by testing the moderation effect of technological dynamism and the level of state support. Full article
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