Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy"
25 September 2003 - 26 September 2003
The Blueprint network is designed to examine the relationship between S&T and environmental policies considering the complexity of factors influencing innovation and environmental decisions in firms. The objective of the network is to promote dialogue between the socio-economic research community, policy makers, industry and intermediate organisations in Europe in order to enhance policy coherence in addressing sustainable development issues.
Over the past decades, environmentally oriented innovations have emerged in all areas of the economy due to ecological pressures and corresponding responses from regulation and markets. Rate and direction of environmentally benign technological and organisational progress however differs depending on the type of innovation. While pollution problems have been countered quite successfully through the use of cleaner processes at the production side, product integrated environmental innovations still suffer from poor market incentives. Most changes consisted of the picking of low-hanging fruits.
At the conference the final Blueprint policy paper with recommendations for co-ordinating environmental and innovation policy on the EU and Member State level will be presented and discussed. The intention of the Blueprint policy paper is to support framework conditions being able to integrate environmental considerations into all phases and all kinds of innovations: processes, products, organisations and entire systems.
Statements will be given by members of the European Commission, national ministries and industry. In addition parallel workshops will be organised on: ,- Strengthening instruments for eco-innovation on the firm level, such as Integrated Product Policy and Emissions Trading ,- Strengthening the Seville Process and the Cardiff Process ,- Transition programmes at the EU and Member State level
The final policy paper is based on discussions held in a series of five workshops in Brussels from January 2002 to April 2003. More than 100 network members contributed to these workshops and took part in the discussions.
Venue: ,Fondation Universitaire (Club of the University Foundation),rue d'Egmont 11,B- 1000 Bruxelles
Further information are available at the network webpage "http://www.blueprint-network.net"Application to the network coordinator: ,Klaus Rennings, Centre for European Economic Research ,E-mail: rennings@zew.de
or to ,Jens Hemmelskamp ,University of Heidelberg ,Email: hemmelskamp@zuv.uni-heidelberg.de,
Over the past decades, environmentally oriented innovations have emerged in all areas of the economy due to ecological pressures and corresponding responses from regulation and markets. Rate and direction of environmentally benign technological and organisational progress however differs depending on the type of innovation. While pollution problems have been countered quite successfully through the use of cleaner processes at the production side, product integrated environmental innovations still suffer from poor market incentives. Most changes consisted of the picking of low-hanging fruits.
At the conference the final Blueprint policy paper with recommendations for co-ordinating environmental and innovation policy on the EU and Member State level will be presented and discussed. The intention of the Blueprint policy paper is to support framework conditions being able to integrate environmental considerations into all phases and all kinds of innovations: processes, products, organisations and entire systems.
Statements will be given by members of the European Commission, national ministries and industry. In addition parallel workshops will be organised on: ,- Strengthening instruments for eco-innovation on the firm level, such as Integrated Product Policy and Emissions Trading ,- Strengthening the Seville Process and the Cardiff Process ,- Transition programmes at the EU and Member State level
The final policy paper is based on discussions held in a series of five workshops in Brussels from January 2002 to April 2003. More than 100 network members contributed to these workshops and took part in the discussions.
Venue: ,Fondation Universitaire (Club of the University Foundation),rue d'Egmont 11,B- 1000 Bruxelles
Further information are available at the network webpage "http://www.blueprint-network.net"Application to the network coordinator: ,Klaus Rennings, Centre for European Economic Research ,E-mail: rennings@zew.de
or to ,Jens Hemmelskamp ,University of Heidelberg ,Email: hemmelskamp@zuv.uni-heidelberg.de,