Working Papers
- Foxon, T. and Andersen M.M. (2009) Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Transforming Innovation Systems for Eco-Innovation, paper for the Druid Summer 2009 Conference, Copenhagen 17-19 June, 2009.
A deeper understanding of eco-innovation dynamics is strongly needed for informing both climate and innovation policies. The paper argues that the fact that environmental problems have largely been neglected by evolutionary economic research illustrates a lack of genuine systems thinking within this line of thought, despite the prominence of systems ideas. The paper proposes a strong paradigmatic explanation of eco-innovation based on a combination of innovation systems thinking and an evolutionary capabilities approach.
Deutsche Bank Research; Green buildings: A niche becomes mainstream. 12/04/2010.
The paper argues that the uncertainty on the profitability of investments in green buildings and their long earning-back period hold investors at bay. The difficult comparability of country situations and of certificates on green buildings entail a scarcity of data on profitability. The asymmetry between owner cost and tenant benefit compounds the earning-back issue.
- Andersen, M.M. (2008) Policies for Climate Change in the long Run: Wiring up the Innovation System for Eco-innovation, paper for the DIME Workshop
"Innovation, sustainability and policy” Bordeaux 11-13 September, 2008.
Policies for climate change have never received as much attention worldwide as now. At the same time another key policy trend is an increasing synthesis between environmental and innovation policy, a synthesis, it is here suggested, that is captured by the “eco-innovation” concept. This paper suggests that the innovation system frame based on evolutionary economic theory may guide the development of these new eco-innovation policies in important ways. The paper seeks to uncover the theoretical underpinnings and new rationales associated with these policies.
- Arundel A. and Kemp R. (2009) Measuring eco-innovation, paper written for the Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the OECD.
This paper offers a discussion of eco-innovation and methods for measuring it. Eco-innovation is a new concept of great importance to business and policy makers, covering many innovations of environmental benefit. It argues that eco-innovation research and data collection should not be limited to such environmentally motivated innovations, but should encompass all products, processes, or organizational innovations with environmental benefits.
- Speirs, J. et al (2008) Adapting Innovation Systems Indicators to assess Eco-Innovation.
A large amount of work has analysed systems approaches to innovation and investigated associated methods of innovation measurement. However, relatively little of this literature has discussed the measurement of eco-innovation. Policies and measures to promote eco-innovation are hampered by a lack of relevant data and indicators. Hence, the research reported here aimed to assess whether innovation systems theory and indicators could be adapted to measuring eco-innovation.
