Wolfgang Gerstlberger

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the 2009 European Manufacturing Survey for the Danish sub-sample including 335 manufacturing firms to study the interaction between product innovation and companies' activities aimed at improving the energy efficiency of production facilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, case study research in Upper Austria, Germany (Northern Hesse) and the USA (Silicon Valley) has been carried out to investigate the sustainability of newer systemic approaches for the regional support of innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study service innovation in product companies (servitization) by considering the relationship (moderation) between product companies and service suppliers, and propose that there are three main business dimensions that product companies have to manage in servitization and that the support of service suppliers can moderate the effects of these dimensions on the benefits obtained from the product-service system (PSS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comparative analysis of sustainability governance in the Baltic Sea countries, outlining some of the challenges in sustainability governance, including limited knowledge about sustainable development amongst municipal development planners and decision-makers, deficiencies in policy integration, intersectoral cooperation, municipality and stakeholder cooperation and urban management practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of local knowledge related to renewable energy systems (RES) in the development of local sustainable innovation strategies and found that local knowledge can provide indirect support for RES, as a starting point for the implementation of other policy criteria.