Multistakeholder Committee for Sustainable Innovation: Creating an Ethical Code in the Jewelry Business. The Experience of the Italian Ethics Committee of Color Gemstones (Assogemme)

Collaboration, contamination, and wide participation are the common denominators of innovation and sustainability. is work aims at studying engagement as the basis for innovative projects that respond to an objective of social and environmental sustainability, and describes the multistakeholder committee as the ideal container for realizing the engagement. collaborative sustainability is defined as an effective and credible action for the creation and dissemination of sustainability of the supply chain. is chapter explores the experience of the Ethics Committee of Color Gemstones, by Assogemme, in Italy, analyzing its planning andoperation activities. It is set up with the aim to produce a sustainable innovation process, aimed at the creation of “new” standards for traceability of jewelry products made with color gemstones, and at the definition of an ethical code for the companies of this business.