Probing "green" industry enterprises in the UK: A new identification approach

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-104

  Shapira, Philip ^a,b   Gök, Abdullah ^a   Klochikhin, Evgeny ^a   Sensier, Marianne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Definition of industries; Green industry; Measurement

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MEASUREMENTS;

GREEN JOBS; GREEN MANUFACTURING; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; SEARCH TERMS; TEXT MINING;

INDUSTRY;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MANUFACTURING; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84900563450     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.10.023     Document Type: Article

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