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Technological Innovation and Sustainable Development

Published:2020 Issue: Volume: Page:34-46
ISSN:2327-3429
Container-title:Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage
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Author:

Paiva Teresa¹^ORCID,Farinha Luis²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Studies in Education and Innovation, Portugal & NECE, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

2. Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal & NECE, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Abstract

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 sustainable 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.

Publisher

IGI Global

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