Abstract

The discussion about the globalisation of markets and the location debate is fraught with fear and often factually misleading. The authors relativise existing fears and show that the increased division of labour between similarly structured societies increases the scope for action. They provide indications of where the scope for action lies and convey the conviction that networking based on the division of labour can also be a good basis for sustainable development. - Globalisation and sustainability have risen to become everyday political buzzwords. The study is therefore initially dedicated to the analytical and empirical clarification of globalisation on the one hand and sustainability on the other. Subsequently, the associated economic, social, political and ecological processes are brought into context. On this basis, it can be shown that, contrary to the widespread belief that "nothing works anymore", there are indeed starting points for a national policy of sustainability under the conditions of a globalising economy. A strategically bundled social innovation policy could be in a position to utilise existing scope for political design on the one hand and to open up new scope for design in the first place on the other. Above all, it is also clear that the economic upheavals require institutional change and new regimes in the national, but above all in the international economy...

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