Description: Das Projekt "Industrial Innovation Triggered by Ecology" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Universität St. Gallen, Institut für Technologiemanagement.Innovations are fundamental for a company's survival and an economy's sucess. In industry they are carried out through R- and D-projects. Even though many researchers have examined the dynamics of technological change and innovations few efforts have been made - to examine the link between innovations and ecology - to connect innovations with project selection processes and decision mechanisms in R and D. The aim of the IIIBE-Project is to model the relationship between innovation, economy and ecology. The research question asks which factors trigger during the R and D project selection process ecology-friendly industrial innovations. From the results rules of thumb for companies or even politicians can be derived to push innovations in a direction beneficial for CO2 reduction. Leading Questions: What is the 'state-of-the-art' in environmentally oriented behaviour in Swiss companies? How to trigger ecological innovations in an uncertain environment? How can economical and ecological aspects be joined/combined? How can cost reductions be used as an ecological tool?
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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Ökologie ? Kohlendioxid ? Industrie ? Umweltorientierte Unternehmensführung ? CO2-Minderung ? Emissionsminderung ? Industrieforschung ? Innovation ? Kostensenkung ? Modellierung ? Forschung und Entwicklung ? Entscheidungsprozess ? Ökonomie ? Technischer Fortschritt ? Umweltfreundliche Technologie ? Verfahrensforschung ? competitiveness of companies ? ecological innovations ? innovation management ? management of competences ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 1996-07-01 - 1999-06-30
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