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Innovations Towards Sustainability: Conditions and Consequences

Innovations Towards Sustainability: Conditions and Consequences

Paperback

Series: Sustainability and Innovation

EconomicsEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 3790816493
ISBN13: 9783790816495
Publisher: Physica-Verlag
Published: Sep 6 2007
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In 1999, the German federal ministry of education and research (BMBF) decided to include two new priorities in its environmental research policy portfolio. One was concerning socio-ecological research aiming at a better understandingofthe socialdimensionofthe sustainabilitytriadandthe other onewasoninnovationorientedresearchaiming atabetter understandinghow companies and public authorities can in?uence innovation activities towards the sustainability objectives. The latter priority led to two new programme lines, one targeting at the company level and the other one targeting at the publicpolicylevelundertheheadlineofframeworkconditionsforinnovations towards sustainable development(RIW). The projects funded under the RIW programme were analysing the - tential innovation impact of environmental policy measures on the one hand and the sustainability impact of other policies, such as innovation policy, on the other hand. The design of the RIW programme included in addition an international outreach dimension with the organisation of international c- ferences as well as the establishment of collaboration platforms among the funded projects in order to allow for more general conclusions. The RIW programme followed the BMBF tradition to foster multi- or interdisciplinary cooperation, notablyinvolvingacademicsfromeconomics, policysciences, and law.

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