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Eco-innovation helped shift Eco-innovation helped shift
the sustainability focus into
a different domain from the
the sustainability focus into operational core, such as supply
chain partnerships. Companies
a different domain from the started developing new business
relationships with suppliers
operational core, such as supply as well as with the customers
and other value chain partners
chain partnerships. Companies so that it was able to harness
the sustainability benefits
started developing new business with a win-win situation for
both partners. United Nations
Environmental Programme
relationships with suppliers as well (UNEP) realized the value of the
tool and subsequently developed
as with the customers and other the UNEP Eco-innovation
methodology and toolkit. UNEP
value chain partners so that it was started disseminating the tool
to the developing countries
able to harness the sustainability with technical support in terms
of capacity building and pilot
benefits with a win-win situation applications. Sri Lanka also
became a country to implement
Eco-innovation in the first round
for both partners. of pilot applications in 2013 as
the National Cleaner Production
Centre (NCPC), Sri Lanka was
keen in interest to promote
such new tools to the industrial
organizations in the country.
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