Integrating sustainability innovations into catching-up processes (ISI-CUP)

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Project period: 01.10.2006 - 31.03.2010

Sustainability innovations are particularly important for the catching-up process in threshold countries because global sustainability goals can be reached only when environmentally-friendly technologies are used in these fast-growing economies. Further, sustainability innovations can make an important contribution to the catching-up process when the countries undergoing this process also become providers of clean technologies on the global market.

This project will examine at conceptual and empirical level the leeway for shaping sustainability innovations. Based on its findings, it will then draft recommendations for technology and environmental policy action and for the development of a regulatory regime. Technology and country profiles will be also developed in order to determine from them the conditions necessary for integrating sustainability innovations into the respective country’s national catching-up process.  

 

Project partners:

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Fraunhofer Society), Dr Walz
Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin Institute of Technology), Professor Dr Blind

Further information is available on the project website.

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