Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation

✍ Scribed by Horbach J.

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realization of a sustainable development. The book links the experiences of different research projects with the aim to develop a system of indicators to evaluate sustainable effects of (environmental) innovations. A comprehensive framework for an indicator system is established that allows to include different environmental innovation fields such as process innovations in the steel production, substitution of dangerous chemicals, organisational innovations in the field of waste disposal or sustainable water management.

✦ Table of Contents

Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation (Sustainability and Innovation)......Page 1
0.front-cover......Page 2
1.Methodological Aspects of an Indicator System for Sustainable Innovation......Page 7
2.The Innovation Effects of Environmental Policy Instruments......Page 26
3.Indicators for a Sustainable Technology Development — A Dynamic Perspective......Page 47
4.Indicators for Lead Markets of Environmental Innovations......Page 75
5.Policy Impacts on Macroeconomic Sustainability Indicators when Technical Change Is Endogenous......Page 99
6.Indicators for Innovations Towards Prevention of Toxic Risks......Page 111
7.Environmental Innovations in the Chemical Industry - Case Studies in a Historical Perspective......Page 128
8.A Sustainable Innovation Scorecard for the Electronics Industry Innovation System......Page 145
9.Water Management Towards Sustainability — An Indicator System to Assess Innovations......Page 180
10.List of contributors......Page 205