Sustainability Considerations & Triple-Helix Cooperation in Regional Innovation Systems Reine Karlsson, Professor Ecodesign, Research Director, TEM Foundation at Lund University, Lund, Sweden Mikael Backman, Project leader, resund Environment Academy & Senior research fellow, IIIEE, Lund University Lund, Sweden AnnaKarin Djupenstrm, Business Excellence Specialist, Stora Enso Oyj, Helsinki, Finland Facilitating Sustainable Innovations - Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development June 26-28, 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Production Nature Communication is difficult Resistance to change The need for change to achieve sustainable success Business as usual New goals Business idea People can grow as drivers, it they are trusted and have freedom of action, and appropriate instruments for navigation. Sustainability value for recycled material Different dimensions of investments Money - to reduce future costs and improve the future added value, Present environmental load - to reduce future environmental loads and improve the renewable resource production and Present social capital - in reduction of social risks and to improve the build up of new social capital. Present activities Future need for different abilities Learnings The sustaianbility value of our learnings is dependent on their future usefulness How can investment thinking be integrated in the core of the environmental and social dimensions of the sustainability science? Sustainability Considerations & Triple-Helix Cooperation in Regional Innovation Systems Reine Karlsson, Mikael Backman & AnnaKarin Djupenstrm Facilitating Sustainable Innovations - Sustainable Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development June 26-28, 2008, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands