Industry and Business
How can value creation be increasingly decoupled from resource consumption by giving consideration to sustainable product use strategies and consumption patterns?
In companies the necessary system innovations are gaining acceptance in terms of the set sustainability goals at a slow pace in some cases. Both technology and management are strongly oriented to developed structures and existing business models. The measures required for sustainable corporate development, such as future-oriented market analyses, targeted risk management, systematic selection of suitable technologies or also partnerships and network building with other companies or research institutes as well as the integration of stakeholders, are deferred in many cases.
Sustainability research can make a major contribution to enhancing economic competitiveness so as to enable more value creation and employment. At the same time value creation is to be decoupled from resource consumption and consideration is to be given to sustainable product use strategies and consumption patterns. In addition, the outstanding significance of climate protection makes a separate approach for climate protection strategies expedient.
Fields of Need
How do systems and value chains have to be designed in future with regard to sustainability aspects?
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(URL: http://www.fona.de/en/5712)
Climate Protection Strategies
What efforts have to be made in order to reduce the anthropogenic influence on the climate system and actively design an effective adaptation to climate changes?
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(URL: http://www.fona.de/en/5713)
Business Models
How can companies identify and utilize the sustainability potential existing within their scope of influence?
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(URL: http://www.fona.de/en/5715)
Production Systems
How can the sustainability potential in the industrial processing of resources be utilized to a greater extent?
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(URL: http://www.fona.de/en/5714)
Key Innovations
What innovations could play a key role in efforts towards more sustainability in industry?
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(URL: http://www.fona.de/en/5716)
fona - Research for Sustainabiity
Innovationen aus der Umweltforschung 
03/2007 - 02/2010
03/2007 - 02/2010
02/2007 - 01/2010
EcoMTex (only available in German) 
New Method to Assure the Origin and Quality of Food (only available in German) 
Research for Climate Protection and Protection from Climate Impacts (2004) 
Leitfaden "Studium und Forschung zur Nachhaltigkeit"