The goal of this paper is to present eco-innovation implementation in Poland and in some European countries. I assess factor influencing on ecoinnovation in small medium enterprises. Both current and expected energy and material prices are particularly important for pushing firms to reduce pollution, decrease hazardous substances and increase recyclability of products. Cost savings are an impor...

The eco-innovation journey can be defined as deliberate shifts undertaken by firms to move away from unsustainable practice (Ehrenfeld, 2008). Such shifts might include changes in technologies, and ways of thinking about these to improve environmental performance e.g. resource productivity. The Literature on innovation provides rich accounts of the factors which might stimulate the development ...

Eco-innovation always needs inspiration. This paper presents eco-innovative examples for 40 TRIZ inventive principles. These examples cover a wide range of products and processes. They are novelty, creative and eco-friendly.

This study aims to contribute to the literature on the microeconomics of eco-innovation from a behavioural perspective. To this end, the Carnegie School ́s model of the ́initiation of inno-vation ́ was condensed into the empirically applicable model of the ?Composed Eco-Initiation Structure? (CEIS). The CEIS focuses upon the following three variables: general environmental goals, regulation-speci...

This paper reports on progress of the OECD project on Green Growth and Eco-Innovation, in the area of business model development for radical and systemic eco-innovation. The outcomes from this workshop will be fed into a final report which is expected to be completed by the summer of 2012.

Industry has been upgrading its production processes through ecoinnovation combining environmental and economic benefits, thus reducing some resource burdens which otherwise lie outside economic accounting. Some companies have shown interest in evaluating investment options for resource burdens and total value added across a whole-system value chain. Our EC research project developed a method f...

The theoretical and empirical innovation literature stresses the importance of regional factors and location conditions for location choice of firms and their innovation success. Innovation activities are not equally distributed in space because agglomeration effects and specific regional infrastructures may promote innovation activities. Concerning environmentally oriented innovations, the so-...

The value of water resources and bodies has been acknowledged in terms of environmental, ecological, and landscape vision and sight because water itself is closely interrelated to the existence and expansion of humanity. The eco-design and eco-innovation of rural-housing in reservoir environment with sustainable tourism and mass-tourism development are under rising pressure of prohibited housin...