Objective To identify and analyze the driving forces, strategies, the role of institutional regimes and of the key actors in the creation and diffusion of different types of environmental innovations in SMEs. To formulate a general policy framework for stimulation of environmental innovations in SMEs, as part of an ecological modernisation strategy.OBJECTIVES: To identify and analyze the driving forces, strategies, the role of institutional regimes and of the key actors in the creation and diffusion of different types of environmental innovations in SMEs. To formulate a general policy framework for stimulation of environmental innovations in SMEs, as part of an ecological modernisation strategy. DESCRIPTION: The research focuses on the role of selected innovative small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) in the creation and the adoption of environmental innovations, which may be 'end-of-pipe as well as 'process integrated . The project examines the creation and diffusion of environmental innovations within five very different national systems of innovation in Europe (The Netherlands, Denmark, United Kingdom, Italy and Portugal) and different clusters of manufacturing industry (e.g. paint industry, textile and apparel industry, printing industry, mechanical engineering, foundries, food processing). In these clusters, environmental innovations are required in order to reduce emissions and SMEs play a crucial part in the creation and diffusion of such innovations. The project consists of three stages: i) for each industrial sector and for each country selected the major characteristics, the technological trajectories and the national institutional framework, including actors, and policies, are examined; ii) in each country four case studies are carried out to identify the key actors in and outside the SME influencing the innovation and diffusion process; iii)the insights of the first two stages are used to examine the driving forces behind the generation and diffusion of environmental innovations in SMEs in general, to identify the key players in the national institutional frameworks and to analyze the most successful strategies by SMEs for environmental innovations. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologymechanical engineering Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Economisch Instituut voor het Midden-en Kleinbedreijf EU contribution No data Address 33,Italïelaan 2701 AA Zoetermeer Netherlands See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Instituto de Apoio as Pequenas e Medias Empresas e ao Investimento Portugal EU contribution No data Address 73,Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca 1297 Lisboa See on map Total cost No data Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands EU contribution No data Address 97,Schoenmakerstraat 2600 JA Delft See on map Total cost No data ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY Denmark EU contribution No data Address 4000 ROSKILDE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Falmer Friston House BN1 9PH Brighton See on map Total cost No data Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Sarfatti 25 20136 Milano See on map Total cost No data
