Sentences with phrase «social innovations tend»

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More recent efforts, branded as corporate social responsibility, tend to have dual objectives to create economic and social value simultaneously, such as initiatives to spark clean technology innovation.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

Drawing partly on more sociological literature, and the systems innovation literature (Unruh, 2002), tends to support a view that we are now «locked in'to carbon - intensive systems, with profound implications: «Carbon lock - in arises through technological, organizational, social and institutional co-evolution... due to the self - referential nature of [this process], escape conditions are unlikely to be generated internally.»