Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy-Based Projects, and Digitalization by Omrane, Amina; Kassmi, Khalil; Akram, Muhammad Wasim;

Short description:

Sustainable Entrepreneurship is nowadays considered as a discipline at the cross-roads of many others. This book describes recent cases, techniques and tools proposed for leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners who are involved and responsible for making strategic decisions in their companies and aiming at sustainable development.

Long description:

Sustainable Entrepreneurship is nowadays considered as a discipline at the cross-roads of many others. This book describes recent cases, techniques and tools proposed for leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners who are involved and responsible for making strategic decisions in their companies and aiming at sustainable development.

This book highlights the use of new business models/methods that can be employed by organizations and researchers to save millions of dollars, to enhance the economic growth, as well as to resolve environmental and social issues, via sustainable networks, renewal energy distribution, and social/green entrepreneurship. It will provide a comprehensive discussion of practical techniques, like Machine Learning, Robotics, Photovoltaic solar energy, in the field of renewable energy, and other digital tools, such as digital marketing, crowdsourcing platforms, and digital currency. Meanwhile, it will enlighten the way for entrepreneurs and decision makers by helping them to learn how to grow their business. The focus will be on how to benefit from these techniques to develop sustainable and renewable energy-based projects, as well as digitalized new ventures.

The book walks the reader through the latest emerging trends in digitalization that can support practitioners, managers, entrepreneurs, and researchers to help them appreciate the application of sustainable solutions in various functional domains.

Table of Contents:

1. The Era of a Digitalized World: Pandemics and Academia. 2. Innovation for Sustainable Development: The Role of Knowledge Management. 3. How to Improve Environmental Performance via Green Innovation- oriented Practices and Managerial Environmental Concerns?. 4. The promotion of social entrepreneurship in Morocco in the service of sustainable development. 5. Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Fossil Free Sustainable Enterprise. 6. Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries in Pakistan. 7. Which Factors Affect Consumer Purchase Behavior in the Digital Marketing arena in Kolkata, India?. 8. Motivational factors behind the participation efforts in crowdsourcing with moderating effect of trust in digital crowdsourcing platforms. 9. Understanding the Relationship between Digital Currency and Search Engine: An Empirical Analysis. 10. Water quality improvement with a solar desalination station. 11. Design and realization of a pilot solar desalination plant in Douar El Hamri in the province of Berkane (Morocco). 12. Cooking with a Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal Cooker in a Moroccan climate. 13. Thermal modelling of photovoltaic ovens and hotplates. 14. A Hot plate operated by photovoltaic solar energy. 15. Autonomous Photovoltaic installations and injection into the electricity network at the technopole of Oujda (Morocco). 16. Migration and Livelihood Sustainability: A Case Study of Migratory Workers of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. 17. The Urban Poor and their Financial Behaviour: A Case Study Of Slum-Dwellers In Lucknow (India).