Search Results

All English-language publications are shown here. You can find all publications, including the German ones here

Search terms: social + innovation

YearTitle / CitationDocument typeLinks / Downloads
2025

2025:  

From Waste to Value? Valuation and Materiality in Geographies of Industrial By-product Use

Citation:  

Angstmann, M. (2025): From Waste to Value? Valuation and Materiality in Geographies of Industrial By-product Use. Progress in Economic Geography, 3 (1), 100034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100034

Abstract / Keywords

Discussions about the environmental impacts of production and consumption are fuelling interest in strategies to transform industrial regions. While economic geography and regional development research extensively cover sustainable innovation and green regional development, innovation diffusion, demand-side aspects, and market emergence are often neglected. This paper illustrates how an enhanced valuation perspective that integrates materiality more directly helps to assess dynamic social processes of valuation in the case of low-carbon, resource efficient solutions. Through a path tracing approach, the paper assesses how two industrial by-products, slag sand and fly ash, evolved into highly valued secondary resources in Germany’s Ruhr. Regional availability, market devices, and institutional work influence different dimensions of market valuation in waste-to-value processes. Insights on different phases of the development provide hint on how to organise and foster regional circular solutions. Findings may inform research and policy to advance emerging green industries, market creation for sustainable resources, and industrial decarbonisation, where the materiality of technologies and resources plays a key role.

Market valuation, Decarbonization, Materiality, Secondary resources, Industrial symbiosis, Economic geography

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2023

2023:  

High-tech development for "left behind" places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem

Citation:  

Butzin, A. & Flögel, F. (2023): High-tech development for "left behind" places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17 (2), 307-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad041

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2023

2023:  

Organizational Social Practice Theories for Social Innovation Research.

Citation:  

Rabadjieva, M. & Zirngiebl, M. (2023): Organizational Social Practice Theories for Social Innovation Research. In Howaldt, J. & Kaletka, C. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Innovation (11-17). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2023

2023:  

Social Innovation Measurement

Citation:  

Terstriep, J., Krlev, G., Mildenberger, G., Strambach, S., Thurmann, J.-F. & Wloka, L.-F. (2023): Social Innovation Measurement. In Howaldt, J. & Kaletka, C. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Innovation (438-447). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Book Review: Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler (eds) Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation

Citation:  

Terstriep, J. (2022): Book Review: Alex Nicholls and Rafael Ziegler (eds) Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation. Critical Studies in Innovation, 38 (3). https://doi.org/10.13169/prometheus.38.3.0374

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields

Citation:  

Rabadjieva, M. & Butzin, A. (2022): Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields. In Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (eds.), The Economics of Social Innovation (16). Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291510

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Favourable social innovation ecosystem(s)? – An explorative approach

Citation:  

Terstriep, J., Rehfeld, D. & Kleverbeck, M. (2022): Favourable social innovation ecosystem(s)? – An explorative approach. In Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (eds.), The Economics of Social Innovation (25). Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291510

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Green social innovation – towards a typology

Citation:  

Schartinger, D., Rehfeld, D., Weber, M. & Rhomberg, W. (2022): Green social innovation – towards a typology. In Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (eds.), The Economics of Social Innovation (20). Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291510

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

I-Care - Technical and social innovations for care of the elderly

Citation:  

Schmidt, C. & Evans, M. (2022): I-Care - Technical and social innovations for care of the elderly. Research and Development at the Westphalian University. Research Report 2018-2021, 16. Gelsenkirchen: Westfälische Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences.

Document type:  

Report

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

I-Care – Technical and social innovations for care of the elderly

Citation:  

Schmidt, C. & Evans, M. (2022): I-Care – Technical and social innovations for care of the elderly. Research and development at the Westphalian University: research report 2018-2021, 16. Gelsenkirchen: Institute for Work and Technology, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences.

Document type:  

Report

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Introduction: Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics - the economics of social innovation

Citation:  

Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (2022): Introduction: Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics - the economics of social innovation. In Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (eds.), The Economics of Social Innovation (11). Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291510

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Learning Methods and Digital Technology for Tackling Social-Ecological Aspects in Entrepreneurship Education

Citation:  

Hamburg, I. (2022): Learning Methods and Digital Technology for Tackling Social-Ecological Aspects in Entrepreneurship Education. In Tacgin, Z. & Hagan, A., Enhanced Learning Environments: Technology and Innovation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions

Citation:  

Krlev, G. & Terstriep, J. (2022): Pinning it down? Measuring innovation for sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 45, 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.11.005

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2022

2022:  

The Economics of Social Innovation

Citation:  

Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (eds.) (2022): The Economics of Social Innovation. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003291510

Document type:  

Book collection

Links / Downloads:  


2021

2021:  

Measuring Social Innovation

Citation:  

Terstriep, J., Krlev, G., Mildenberger, G., Strambach, S., Thurmann, J.-F., & Wloka, L.-F. (2021): Measuring Social Innovation. In Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., & Schröder, A. (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Social Innovation (263-286). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909357.00024

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2020

2020:  

Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics – the economics of social innovation

Citation:  

Terstriep, J. & Rehfeld, D. (2020): Bridging local embeddedness and global dynamics – the economics of social innovation. European Planning Studies, 28 (5), 853-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1766106

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  

2020

2020:  

Business models & social innovation: Mission-driven versus profit-driven organisations

Citation:  

Cipriani, T. K., Deserti, A., Kleverbeck, M., Rizzo, F. & Terstriep, J. (2020): Business models & social innovation: Mission-driven versus profit-driven organisations (Published online). International review of applied economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2020.1781066

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  

2020

2020:  

Entrepreneurial education for persons with disabilities: a social innovation approach for inclusive ecosystems

Citation:  

David, A. & Krüger, D. (2020): Entrepreneurial education for persons with disabilities: a social innovation approach for inclusive ecosystems. Frontiers in education (5), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00003

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2020

2020:  

Favourable social innovation ecosystem(s)? An explorative approach

Citation:  

Terstriep, J., Rehfeld, D. & Kleverbeck, M. (2020): Favourable social innovation ecosystem(s)? An explorative approach. European Planning Studies, 28 (5), 881-905. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1708868

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  

2019

2019:  

Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields

Citation:  

Rabadjieva, M. & Butzin, A. (2019): Emergence and diffusion of social innovation through practice fields. European Planning Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1577362

Document type:  

Journal article

Links / Downloads:  


2019

2019:  

Indicators for measuring social innovation

Citation:  

Kleverbeck, M., Krlev, G., Mildenberger, G., Strambach, S., Thurmann, J.-F., Terstriep, J. & Wloka, L. (2019): Indicators for measuring social innovation. In Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Schröder, A. & Zirngiebl, M. (eds.), Atlas of social innovation - 2nd volume: A world of new practices (98-101). München: oekom Verlag.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2018

2018:  

Actors and roles in social innovation

Citation:  

Butzin, A. & Terstriep, J. (2018): Actors and roles in social innovation. In Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Schröder, A. & Zirngiebl, M. (eds.), Atlas of social innovation: new practices for a better future (77-80). Dortmund.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2018

2018:  

Building blocks of a typology of social innovation: investigating the relationship between social innovation and social change

Citation:  

Rabadjieva, M., Schröder, A. & Zirngiebl, M. (2018): Building blocks of a typology of social innovation: investigating the relationship between social innovation and social change. In Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Schröder, A. & Zirngiebl, M. (eds.), Atlas of social innovation: new practices for a better future (84-87). Dortmund.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads:  


2018

2018:  

Creating spaces for innovations in education and lifelong learning

Citation:  

Schröder, A., David, A. & Hamburg, I. (2018): Creating spaces for innovations in education and lifelong learning. In Howaldt, J., Kaletka, C., Schröder, A. & Zirngiebl, M. (eds.), Atlas of social innovation: new practices for a better future (169-171). Dortmund.

Document type:  

Article in

Links / Downloads: