Paiva T., Farinha L.(2020) Technological Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Knitwear Industry of Seia and Gouveia Counties, Portugal. In Farinha L., Raposo, D. (eds) Handbook of Research on Driving Industrial Competitiveness With Innovative Design Principles. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3628-5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3628-5.ch003
Title
Technological Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Knitwear Industry of Seia and Gouveia Counties, Portugal
Subject
Competitiveness
Date
2021-01-08T13:15:34Z 2021-01-08T13:15:34Z 2020
Description
Industrial competitiveness is linked to sustainable business practices if firms want to be competitive and position themselves as sustainable companies. This chapter analyses how the knitwear industry integrates the sustainable concerns into their strategy and mission and how they adopt new ways of production, performance, and product definition, mainly through technological innovation and therefore improve their industrial competitiveness. The study is exploratory applied into all the knitwear industries of two counties of the Centre Region of Portugal. The innovation, mainly technical, adopted expresses the sus- tainable concern to the limit of the law and business revenue. It seems that the business environmental concerns showed have a paradoxical behaviour as they don’t translate into a clear contribution for the sustainable development and to an industrial competitiveness concern. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
