The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have awakened us to care about the inseparable relationship between economic development and environmental/societal wellness. The framework setting of SDGs has also explicitly shown that much of what humans “can do for something new” is constrained by, and should be concerned with, environmental conditions.

Scholarly and practical challenges emerge, however, against the backdrops. Practically, human beings are paying the price of what they have done to "successful" economies and businesses that actually are harmful to the environment. Enterprises and industries have been transforming themselves by updating their business models. Although innovative, some of the new business models do not consider their own relations/contributions to the well-being of the environment and public health. For example, bike-sharing as an innovative and entrepreneurial system for economies has contributed greatly to monetary growth, but improperly managed bike-sharing businesses have also left severe pollution on our earth. Scholarly, few are committed to a deeper understanding of the environmental impacts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship development, especially in emerging economies. Unsupported theses are still left and need further examinations. In short, a lot has been done in understanding CIE's influences on the environment, but less on vice versa.

This Special Issue aims to invite papers conceptually discussing and/or empirically investigating issues of environmental impacts generated during creative, innovative, or entrepreneurial activities in various dimensions (economic, social, or even political). Such studies can broaden our traditional foci on the single-way relation of environmental impacts caused by businesses and industries. For this Special Issue to be successful, we aim to advance knowledge of the mutual impacts between the environment and CIE activities. We welcome both original research and review articles.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Environmental constraints (natural, regulative, industrial) that lead to unconventional ways of implementing CIE processes
• Environmental constraints on CIE policy and education
• The influences on, and of, leadership, intellectual capital, and business ethics practices
• The role of technology in impeding/facilitating the phenomena/issues above
• Stakeholders, partnerships (alliances, networks, public-private projects, supply chain, co-marketing, etc.), and value co-creation (VCC)
• Cross-cultural (-industry, -sector, -economies, -geographic location, etc.) comparisons
• Environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR)
• Methodological issues and case studies
• Non-profit CIE (e.g., social innovation/social entrepreneurship)