Session

E Sustainability Science - Chances, Challenges and New Perspectives

E2 Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development

got to Session Results

Date: 25/09/2008
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Hall F.1

Target Audience: Science

Objectives:

Formulation of action needed for politics, science, economy. High lightening the contributions of research for sustainability to innovations

Format: Lecture with discussion
Language: German (English translation)

The session „Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development” represents a thematic cluster which addresses expected parallelisms between innovation processes and sustainable development. It serves as a staring point for seven intertwined projects, which investigate the basis and perspectives of sustainable innovations and pinpoints the needs and options for frame-setting and policies. In a joint and co-ordinated approach, the following aspects will be addressed:

• The parallelism of innovation and sustainability: a systematic comparison along the value chain.
• Potentials for sustainable development through concepts for hybrid value creation.
• Sustainable governance of international value chains: a case study-based approach.
• Enabling innovations in agriculture to ensure sustainable development in land use: Stakeholder driven roadmaps.
• Best practises in sustainability: A policy atlas.
• Variants of sustainable development: A political atlas.
• An integrated transfer strategy for sustainability.

Due to the early stage of the given projects, the session is seen as a highly welcome possibility to take up input from the audience based on the project outlines which will be presented.

Session Chair

von Gleich, Arnim
University of Bremen, Germany

Presentations

Introduction and context
Bovenschulte, Marc
Project managing agency for Innovation and Technology Analysis, Germany

Introduction and context
Mayer-Ries, Jörg
German Federal Environment Ministry, Germany

Nachhaltige Steuerung und Gestaltung von internationalen Wertschöpfungsketten: Ein Fallstudien basierter Ansatz.
Fischer, Klaus
Research Institute for Technology and Work, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Varianten nachhaltiger Entwicklung: Ein politischer Atlas.
Jacob, Klaus
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Hohe Potenziale für die Ressourceneffizienz: Ein technologischer Atlas.
Rohn, Holger
Geschäftsführer Trifolium GmbH, Friedberg, Germany

Die Parallelität von Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit: ein systematischer Vergleich entlang der Wertschöpfungskette.
Schmauder, Martin
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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Potenziale für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung durch hybride Konzepte der Wertschöpfung.
Schröter, Marcus
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
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Eine integrierte Transfer-Strategie für die nachhaltige Entwicklung.
Stender, Carola
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Ermöglichung landwirtschaftlicher Innovationen als Basis nachhaltiger Entwicklungen der Landnutzung – akteursgeleitete Roadmaps
Werner, Arnim
Centre for Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany
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Session Results

Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe

• The improvement of innovation ability contributes considerably to the aim of improving European competiveness
• The challenge is to identify the main influencing factors which drive the innovation processes in the direction of sustainability

Research priority areas for the foreseeable future

• Conceiving the complexity of innovation processes
• To find a well-balanced way between concretion and complexity

Other important issues or topics discussed during the session

Organisation

Dr. Marc Bovenschulte
PT-ITA
VDI/VDE-IT
Steinplatz 1
10623 Berlin
Tel.: (49) 030/310078-108
Fax: (49) 030/310078-216
bovenschulte@vdivde-it.de