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The main purposes of this chapter are to present how the relationship between law and ethics has been depicted in the literature of engineering ethics education, assess this relationship, and encourage the inclusion of law – understood not as mere legal rules but as a system of norms – in engineering ethics education (EEE). The review shows multiple fruitful connections between ethics and law but, at the same time, a lack of an in-depth discussion related to these connections. The authors argue that law should be seen as a fundamentally interpretative endeavor, and this interpretation should inform EEE where it includes law. The authors assert that established literature leaves unclear how law and ethics are combined in courses and classrooms. In response, they describe four possible relationships between ethics and law: disconnected domains, law as what one needs to go beyond with ethics, law and ethics as parallel perspectives, and the integration of law and ethics. Their hope is that this chapter will stimulate and re-ignite a discussion about the role of law within EEE.

Business model innovation (BMI) plays a key role in driving sustainability transitions, yet its interplay with the broader socio-technical system is often overlooked. This study investigates BMI in the emerging niche of insectbased food and feed in Sweden, employing a combined Business Model Design Space (BMDS) and dynamic capabilities perspective. Drawing on interviews with ten insect firms, we examine how firm-level dynamic capabilities shape BMI strategies and interact with the BMDS. Our findings show that firms adopt different strategies to navigate the opportunities and constraints they perceive within the BMDS. We introduce a novel typology that outlines how firms perceive and respond to the BMDS through two dimensions: BMDS Sensing (systematic & intuitive) and BMDS Enactment (fit-and-conform & stretch-and-transform). This typology identifies four distinct BMI seizing modes: Analytical Adaptation, Analytical Shaping, Instinctive Adaptation, and Instinctive Shaping, highlighting how firms interpret and enact the BMDS through BMI. By integrating dynamic capabilities theory with the BMDS framework, we address the gap of accounting for varied perceptions of the BMDS among different actors. We show how firms exercise strategic agency in shaping and responding to systemlevel dynamics, offering new theoretical insights that bridge firm-level and system-level perspectives on BMI within emerging niches.

Efforts to develop the wild berry industry in Sweden and internationally call for increased knowledge about the consumer perspective. Our objective is to investigate attitudes, product associations, consumption patterns, and foraging behaviour regarding bilberries, with an online survey using a nationally representative sample (N = 2010). The data were analysed with regression and multinomial testing using a Bayesian approach as well as with correspondence analysis on a check-all-that-apply task. Results indicate that bilberries are consumed regularly in Sweden and a majority of consumers (56.5 %) reported foraging for bilberries during 2023. The factors considered most important when purchasing bilberries are Swedish origin and good sensory characteristics (taste and texture). Consumers' associations with bilberry products were described by three multifaceted dimensions: familiar/unfamiliar (also related to hedonics), natural/artificial (also related to sourness/sweetness), and utilitarian/exclusive (also related to situational appropriateness). Fresh bilberries were more likely to be perceived as 'traditional' and 'everyday' by consumers in Northern vis-a`-vis Eastern or Southern Sweden, and women associated both fresh and frozen bilberries with being 'artificial' more than men. The results provide important insight for actors that promote a sustainable wild berry industry that acknowledges the voice of the consumer.

This book deals with ethical and sustainability issues that are being manifested by the development and use of state-of-the-art digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, voice assistant technologies, blockchain, augmented/mixed reality, and wearables/implantables in certain cultural contexts, on the presupposition that the technology is received differently in different cultures. A range of cultural values and perspectives are incorporated into the discussions in this book, and cross-cultural research methodologies are employed in several chapters. However, how should and can culture be integrated into discussions about ethics, sustainability, and digital technologies? Why is such integration necessary and important? This introductory chapter explains the research background, objectives, and academic, practical, and social significance of the studies in the publication, offering the viewpoint of culture as suture, and describes the features of the book. An overview of each of the following chapters is also presented.

CONTEXT

Driven by strategic objectives such as regional development, increased domestic value added, improved labour conditions and reduced environmental impacts, a range of actors are pursuing innovation related to the Swedish wild berry value chain.

OBJECTIVE

Our objective is to analyse the structure, functions and directionality of the Swedish wild berry innovation system and draw implications for ongoing efforts to develop the value chain.

METHODS

Our study is based on 18 semi-structured interviews, participant observations and a range of secondary sources. We use an analytical framework based on the agricultural innovation systems approach and pay specific attention to reflexivity, directionality and non-human materiality.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION

The Swedish wild berry innovation system is fragmented as incumbent berry companies are absent from efforts to develop and reconfigure the value chain. The fragmentation is a result of the partly conflicting objectives among actors in the innovation system. There is a need for broader governance networks to navigate trade-offs and enable the commercialisation of new solutions. Successful innovation likely hinges on institutional change, particularly when it comes to efforts to improve labour conditions for migrant workers.

SIGNIFICANCE

Our study contributes empirically to research on non-timber forest product value chains and offers insights for actors pursuing innovation related to Swedish wild berries. We contribute to theoretical development in the agricultural innovation systems literature by incorporating attention reflexivity, directionality and non-human materiality.

Here you will find an open letter written by Tito Designori, a Chief Education Officer of the management and engineering school Impulsia, informing the community of scholars about the abdication from his role. Recalling the times of pedagogical province Castalia, the life of its rector Joseph Knecht, Tito engages in a poetic account about the reinvention of Castalia into Impulsia - the School of Impact, a school that would be directly aimed at creating change in the world. Notwithstanding its name, he witnesses the decline of teaching in the school, its failure to educate students to take responsibility for the world, and its complicity in its crisis. He tells the story of two teachers using arts-based pedagogy in Impulsia, in an effort to light a fire in the students and connect their education to what really matters. Tito remains silent about whether the teachers’ efforts were successful, and somewhat surprisingly ends his accounts in the midst of the teachers’ careers. However, from his stories and analyses, he seems to imply that he finds some hope in their life stories that might bring teaching back to the school

Recent geopolitical and economic crises underline the need for a European transition towards a more sustainable food system. Scholars and policymakers have called for a re-territorialization of food production to strike a better balance between local, regional and global value chains. This paper explores the role of re-territorialization through an analysis of the emergence, development and current transformation of the Swedish wild berry value chain. The analysis combines the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions with a socio-techno-ecological system approach and draws on interviews, informal conversations, participant observations and a range of secondary sources. The resulting case narrative shows how processes of de-territorialization may result in regimes that fail to address sustainability potential and problems. It also highlights that processes of re-territorialization challenge established regimes by promoting niches that represent different, albeit complementary, value chain configurations. Apart from a rich empirical narrative that brings useful knowledge to stakeholders to the Swedish wild berry value chain, the paper contributes to the theoretical understanding re-territorialization, shows how the ecological dimension can be accounted for with the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions and presents a number of general policy implications.