ABSTRACT
Businesses can join numerous networks 1 that assist their efforts to commercialize eco-innovation and improve resource efficiency. The partnerships and alliances in these networks can promote policies and business practices that result in increased sustainability. Many businesses are already in strategic partnerships with each other or national/sub-regional research and development (R&D) institutions. For example, Australian research bodies like the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) helped companies and institutions invest an average of 23 per cent of Australia's R&D spending in the environment industry in 2003. The Australian Government has made achieving an ‘Environmentally Sustainable Australia' one of its main research goals. The government is aiming for the Australian Environment Industry to become a AU4$0 billion dollar export industry by 2010.
