ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that corporate sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship are symbiotically connected and together form a nexus of linkages that can be analysed at varying levels of micro- and macro-engagement. It provides a case for a multi-level approach to sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation and then examines the nature of sustainability entrepreneurship and innovation as operating at four interlinked levels. Four interlinked levels include: the level of the individual who undertakes innovative or entrepreneurial activities; the level of the firm within which the individual operates; the level of the infrastructure that surrounds a particular innovation or technology; and the level of society. Innovation has been characterised, at the intermediate level, as a technology-specific innovation system that is based on successful coalition-building of actors and institutions in the narrow context of the particular innovation. An ideal type of a geographic cluster approach to sustainability innovation and entrepreneurship is represented by the concept of industrial ecology.
