Background report about strategies for eco-innovation

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State Secretaries of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment and

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Transport

Table of contents

INTRODUCTION 4

1. ON INNOVATION 6

1.1 What is innovation? 6

1.2 The innovation system perspective and policy 11

1.3 Innovating in the knowledge economy 13

1.4 Incremental versus radical innovation 14

1.5 The knowledge aspects of innovation 15

2. ECO-INNOVATION AND ECO-EFFICIENCY 16

2.1 Eco-innovation 16

2.2 Eco-efficiency 17

2.3 Knowledge aspects of eco-innovation 19

2.4 GPT and the environment 21

3. BARRIERS TO ECO-INNOVATION 22

4. FIRM STRATEGIES AND ECO-INNOVATION 27

4.1 the relationship between firm strategy and innovation..27

4.2 The distribution of environmental management systems .28

5. THE COMPETITIVENESS OF ECO-INNOVATION 31

5. 1 A false dichotomy 31

5.2 The costs of environmental protection 40

5.3 Growth trends and potentials related to eco-innovation 41

6. POLICY AND ECO-INNOVATION 45

6.1 Many policies affect eco-innovation 45

6.2 Policy styles 46

6.3 Timing and coordination 48

6.4 Lead markets as a model by policy 49

6.5 Policy integration52

6.6 Eco-innovation in EU policy documents 55

6.7 Sweden’s national strategy for eco-business 59

6.8 The Netherlands’ strategy of transition management 61

6.9 The Draft Innovation Action Plan..63

7. Conclusion 69

References 73