Overview
- Illustrates the links between innovation systems and sustainable development
- Offers comprehensive insights into the Brazilian sugarcane sector and its unique character
- Includes a detailed case study that demonstrates how innovation systems work
Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development. It first examines the question why sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is considered a superior alternative to fossil fuel compared to other biofuels produced on an industrial scale and subsequently analyzes the most dynamic areas within the sugarcane sector with regard to relevant actors, technologies and markets in order to determine if the sector can be considered an innovation system. The empirical research presented here is based on multiple research methods and derives its data from interviews with Brazilian experts of the sugarcane sector and by a thorough literature review. The book will be of special interest to researchers and practitioners interested in understanding the key mechanisms in successful innovation systems that promote a transition towards sustainable development and mobility.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (5 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
After finishing his Diploma in Business Administration, Felix Kaup worked more than four years for several associations and as an international project manager within bioenergy projects in Latin America and South Africa. During his employment with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research he worked as a researcher on biofuels and wrote his doctoral thesis. For more than eight years Felix Kaup has been working in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil
Book Subtitle: The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector on Its Path Towards Sustainability
Authors: Felix Kaup
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16583-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16582-0Published: 08 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36764-4Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16583-7Published: 28 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 280
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Economics, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Sustainable Development, R & D/Technology Policy, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture