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{"title":"Electronic waste management scenario in Bangladesh: policies, recommendations, and case study at Dhaka and Chittagong for a sustainable solution","authors":"Hridoy Roy,&nbsp;Md.Shahinoor Islam,&nbsp;Shafaul Haque,&nbsp;M.H. Riyad","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bangladesh produces 3 million metric ton (MMT) of e-waste, including ship-breaking yards, each year. The leachate from dumped e-waste contains toxic heavy metals and organics that are detrimental to animals, humans, and the environment. The proper legislation and systematic e-waste management strategies have not yet been established in Bangladesh. This study reported the upgradation of the e-waste policies, e.g., the Factory Act, 1965 to Hazardous Waste (e-waste) Management, 2021 of the government of Bangladesh (GoB). A field survey was conducted for an in-depth understanding of the current scenario of e-waste management in Dhaka and Chittagong and total e-waste streamflow has been presented. The usage trend of electronic products (cell phones, refrigerators, television, computers, and air conditioners), the average lifetime of these products, and knowledge of e-waste were explored by the face-to-face questionnaire-based interviews. Cell phones were found to be the significant contributors to e-waste in Bangladesh. The study suggests that systematic e-waste management policies can improve the total scenario. An integrated e-waste recycling facility based on life cycle analysis (LCA) and materials flow analysis (MFA) must be introduced. The recycling process has been discussed, and recommendation has been pointed out for Bangladesh. Based on the study, printed circuit boards (PCBs)-based metal recovery business model from mobiles and computers worth $1 billion/yr by 2030 has been proposed. State-of-the-art technologies in recycling plants and disposal site selection criteria are essential factors for the safer management of e-waste in Bangladesh. Environmental awareness has to be developed for a sustainable and long-term e-waste management system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 3","pages":"Article 100025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000256/pdfft?md5=af04b2ecb2567817d18013d4f289e47a&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000256-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87878423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban entrepreneurship and sustainable businesses in smart cities: Exploring the role of digital technologies","authors":"Leo-Paul Dana ,&nbsp;Aidin Salamzadeh ,&nbsp;Morteza Hadizadeh ,&nbsp;Ghazaleh Heydari ,&nbsp;Soroush Shamsoddin","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The entrance of sustainable and digital technologies into urban entrepreneurship is a new approach that provides a fertile ground for innovation in businesses. Hence, businesses use new models and methods of entrepreneurship in the context of smart cities to increase their capability and become more sustainable, which leads to their development and expansion. This research aims to investigate the effects of urban entrepreneurship on sustainable businesses in smart cities considering the role of digital technologies. The statistical population of this study is all active technology-based firms located in Tehran in 2022. Then, according to Cochran's formula, 315 firms were selected randomly as the sample. This research is an applied and descriptive-survey research and is quantitative in terms of the type of collected data. The data were analysed using Smart PLS 3 software, structural equation modelling (SEM), and the partial least squares methods. As a result, research findings show that urban entrepreneurship creates and develops the studied firms in both quantitative and qualitative aspects by using and benefiting from digital technologies considering the new needs of cities and achieving business sustainability in smart cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000165/pdfft?md5=fff949f5c54fab3e7e587c0c8d76ea23&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000165-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73636906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sector coupling and business models towards sustainability: The case of the hydrogen vehicle industry","authors":"Caledonia T.C. Trapp ,&nbsp;Dominik K. Kanbach ,&nbsp;Sascha Kraus","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of sector coupling has been gaining increased momentum in political discourses during the past few years but it has only recently received the attention of international academics. The private sector is particularly relevant to foster sector coupling through entrepreneurial action – specifically, innovative business models for more sustainable technologies are needed to promote a transition towards more sustainability. So far, however, the literature on business models from a sector coupling perspective is scarce yet strongly emerging. To address the identified research gaps and enhance the current knowledge on the emerging hydrogen vehicle industry and sector coupling, this study adopts a qualitative and exploratory research approach and builds on information gained in 103 semi-structured interviews to discuss emerging business models in Germany. In particular, 33 business cases have been analyzed. Anchoring business model theory to the concept of sector coupling, this study identifies 12 business model archetypes in the emerging hydrogen vehicle industry and its value chain. It can be shown that, while the market is still emerging and the market players are not defined and are evolving, companies are currently engaged in finding their position along the value chain, fostering vertical integration, and promoting cooperation between the different sectors. While this study is relevant for both the academia and the industry, it is particularly interesting for policy makers shaping the future of sustainable development, specifically considering integrated energy systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100014"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000141/pdfft?md5=64d8f58768fe0127df3056bfed8a2272&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000141-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84660516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational sustainability identity: ‘New Work’ of home offices and coworking spaces as facilitators","authors":"Ricarda B. Bouncken,&nbsp;Artur Lapidus,&nbsp;Yixin Qui","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Increasingly, firms need to cope with challenges related to sustainability and ecological transformation while also experiencing an ongoing transformation by implementing New Work forms, a trend even more accelerated by the Covid 19 pandemic. The current study submits the concept of an ‘Organizational Sustainability Identity’ (OSI). It represents a firm's holistic inclination toward sustainability and the ecological transformation. New Work, often understood to advance work satisfaction, creativity, and entrepreneurship might particularly facilitate the evolvement of an OSI, such as by providing more autonomous and humane work while lowering CO₂ emissions. We systematically examine New Work related to home offices, coworking spaces, and hybrid multilocal work at the backdrop of supporting the construction of an OSI. In essence, New Work can contribute to the evolvement of an OSI by improving humane work, bridging factual activities that reduce CO₂ emissions, and especially by supporting social interactions which facilitate the construction of a shared identity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100011"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000116/pdfft?md5=5aa1b2eed7143d2abe514397c79f598f&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000116-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87450611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovation drivers for export performance","authors":"Luis Camilo Ortigueira-Sánchez ,&nbsp;Dianne H.B Welsh ,&nbsp;William C Stein","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>According to the research-based view of the firm, innovation is a key capability that can foster a sustainable competitive advantage and explain firm heterogeneity in export performance. However, few studies have focused on the effect of innovation on export performance in the context of low levels of innovation, which developing markets are characterized by. Since exports are considered the first market entry mode, it is critical to understand the effect of innovation on exports. In this paper, we test the effect of innovation on export performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Peru that have received government innovation subsidies, with a theoretical model that incorporates innovation inputs, innovation types, and performance. We test the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling from 237 SMEs. The findings show that government innovation subsidies, human capital, and cooperation have a positive effect on innovation types. Likewise, innovation types positively affect production and export performance. Production performance mediates the relationship between innovation types and export performance. This research article advances the study of innovation and export performance in an emerging market context, which are characterized by a weak innovation system and low investments on innovation. Likewise, it holds policy implications for both science, technology and innovation policy and foreign trade policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277303282200013X/pdfft?md5=ce1d96267248cd21ce44362a8bd2fdd4&pid=1-s2.0-S277303282200013X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91479246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis & prognosis of sustainable development goals using big data-based approach during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Muskaan Chopra ,&nbsp;Dr. Sunil K. Singh ,&nbsp;Anshul Gupta ,&nbsp;Kriti Aggarwal ,&nbsp;Brij B. Gupta ,&nbsp;Francesco Colace","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The world has changed considerably in the previous two decades. Today, people are facing extreme poverty, global warming, and unwanted climate changes. The economic gap between countries is continuously growing. Moreover, with the expanding influence of technology, governance is getting more difficult. To address these issues, the UN announced Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also called Global Goals, in 2015. These goals fill in as an overall source of inspiration to annihilate poverty, protect the environment, and guarantee that all individuals live in harmony and thrive by 2030. The 17 SDGs are interconnected in that they recognize that activities in a single region sway result in others and that improvement should adjust to social, monetary, and natural sustainability. The SDGs intend to kill poverty, hunger, AIDS, and gender discrimination against women and girls. The COVID-19 epidemic, on the other hand, has hampered attempts to accomplish the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a result, the impact of these SDGs must be thoroughly studied and analyzed. As a result, the purpose of this research is to examine the SDG before and after Covid-19, as well as how they have influenced various national and international markets. The research also assesses the 17 SDGs in each of India's 29 states in depth. Since SDGs have a larger scope, this paper predicts the SDG-9 scores of few countries like UAE, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, China, Bhutan, and USA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100012"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000128/pdfft?md5=cd68cd71519f59b2a4c069041743e1f3&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000128-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74795459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The transition towards the implementation of sustainable mobility. Looking for generalization of sustainable mobility in different territories by the application of QCA","authors":"Cayetano Medina-Molina ,&nbsp;María de la Sierra Rey-Tienda","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mobility emerges as one of the axes on which cities base their response to the challenges of sustainability. It is a complex phenomenon where elements located at different levels interact, meaning that it is increasingly being studied from a multi-level perspective. There are numerous smart mobility initiatives around the world, although there are doubts about their generalisation. The purpose of this article is to stablish the configurations of elements that determine the degree to which a city is making changes to implement sustainable mobility solution, and to study if those are generalisable across continents. Based on the data of 60 cities from different continets provided by the Urban Mobility Readiness Index, the configurations of elements that explain both the transition towards the implementation of sustainable mobility solutions and the denial of this phenomenon are established, three in each case. QCA was applied to a model that use the multilevel perspective.The main contribution is that infrastructures maintain the pivotal role, although the joint presence of other elements is also required, including certain characteristics of the city, such as its innovative character, as well as a high population density. Individual experiences can be extrapolated between cities on different continents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000153/pdfft?md5=c77b554f4b90f4f4468abbfefa50d62a&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000153-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85460940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of adoption of climate smart agricultural technologies among potato farmers in Kenya: Does entrepreneurial orientation play a role?","authors":"Patrick Andati ,&nbsp;Eucabeth Majiwa ,&nbsp;Marther Ngigi ,&nbsp;Robert Mbeche ,&nbsp;Josiah Ateka","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important strategy for supporting farmers against climate change challenges. However, CSA adoption among smallholder farmers particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low. This article investigates the factors that influence CSA adoption among smallholder potato farmers in Nyandarua County, Kenya. We specifically focus on the role of the farmers’ entrepreneurial orientation (reflected in the farmers’ innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking), a contribution that has received limited research attention. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 350 potato farming households and analyzed using descriptive statistics, principal component analysis (PCA) and a multivariate probit regression model. Based on PCA analysis, the study considered six categories of CSA practices; soil nutrient management, crop management, crop protection, seed management, water harvesting, and crop quality improvement. The multivariate probit results show that farmers' entrepreneurial orientation had mixed influence on CSA adoption. While farmers’ innovativeness had a positive influence on crop management and improvement practices uptake, its influence on water harvesting technologies was negative. Similarly, proactive farmers were more likely to adopt seed management practices, whereas risk-takers were more likely to adopt protection and water harvesting technologies. Potato producers' willingness to engage in seed multiplication was linked to use of crop protection, seed management, and water harvesting technologies, indicating a path that could help potato farmers’ access clean seed. Other important factors influencing CSA adoption included access to financing through mobile-based applications, gender, land size, trust in extension officers, household income, and farm characteristics. The study discusses the implications of these findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100017"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000177/pdfft?md5=67541818ae25bcc7889ee7a409163726&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000177-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82711544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hyperinflation potential in commodity-currency trading systems: Implications for sustainable development","authors":"Yorgos D. Marinakis,&nbsp;Reilly White","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable Development implies slowing the rate of utilization and eventual depletion of non-renewable resources such as oil and metals. Non-renewable resources are now commonly traded, often as derivatives, through electronic trading exchanges and studies the impact of that trading on sustainable development are underrepresented. Commodity-currency research since 2003 to some extent has focused on the relationship between commodity prices – including non-renewable resources – and the exchange rates of the currencies of the nations that are extracting those commodities. To a lesser extent, other research on non-renewable resource development has focused on technology and innovation. Here we address one issue at the core of non-renewable sustainable development: the question of commodity-currency linkages and spillovers and their effects on price stability. Our research tool is an economic interpretation of the Lotka-Volterra equations. Using Lotka-Volterra parameters from the fit to actual CAD XCT data, we find that carrying out the currency-commodity dynamics over several centuries demonstrates the possibility for cyclical unsustainable hyperinflation. Devaluing or inflating the currencies or commodities is not a solution to hyperinflation. The solution to hyperinflation is to increase β (the effect of the commodity on the currency) and/or δ (the price decrease rate of the commodity when the currency is absent) and/or decrease γ (the inflation rate of the commodity in the presence of the currency).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000037/pdfft?md5=a762da62816943150ec89db8ce2622a1&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000037-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81745315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable maintenance of power transformers using computational intelligence","authors":"Nadia Nedjah ,&nbsp;Luiza de Macedo Mourelle ,&nbsp;Ramon Alves dos Santos ,&nbsp;Leonardo Torres Bispo dos Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2022.100001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The technical and financial management of power substations involves the evaluation of the operational condition of power transformers. Evaluation is an essential stage for maintaining electricity supply and resource efficiency by guiding the process of maintaining and/or upgrading a transformers park. This process aims at identifying assets with critical operational condition in a substation that may convey risks to operators, installed equipment and customers. The use of computational intelligence techniques aims at assisting the evaluation process, which is not simple because it requires combining measurements that evaluate different aspects of the power transformers. A deep technical knowledge of chemical, electrical and physical measurements is necessary to infer a correct diagnosis. Thus, computational intelligence techniques can reduce the need for human expertise, since they are able to extract patterns of known information and optimize the identification of critical assets. In this paper, computational intelligence techniques are applied aiming at composing a numerical index, termed Health Index, for asset prioritization. Prioritization helps classify assets based on criticality levels. Information regarding the measurements used to compose the index is based on measurements done on real transformers. In this work, computational intelligence techniques are especially explored for the composition of the Health Index, as there are no publications with the application of these techniques to solve this kind of prioritization problem. We seek the most appropriate set of methods to support decision making in prioritizing assets for maintenance. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is evaluated, seeking strategies that add greater sustainability, flexibility, simplicity and high accuracy rate in asset prioritization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100001"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773032822000013/pdfft?md5=1f1a031be566f6aaca1c012e274492bd&pid=1-s2.0-S2773032822000013-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90861710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}