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Measuring eco-innovationLessons from the Eco-Innovation Observatory
NETGREEN Policy Workshop, Brussels, 11 March 2015
Michal Miedzinski
Technopolis Group
A Cerro Tololo Sky (Chile)
Credit: Roger Smith, AURA, NOAO, NSF
• European knowledge hub on eco-innovation for policy makers, business and researchers
• Supports the EU’s Eco-Innovation Action Plan (Eco-AP)
• Duration: 2009–2012, 2012-2013, 2014-2016
• Core partners: Technopolis Group (leader), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Wuppertal Institute, BIO by Deloitte and WAAT, with support from Triple E, Cleantech Group and University of Ferrara.
The Eco-Innovation Observatory
• Reports, briefs and presentations
• Eco-Innovation database and scoreboard
• EU28 country profiles
• On-line database withinteractive charts
• 200+ eco-innovation business practices from across Europe
• Glossary and more
www.eco-innovation.eu
The EIO in short
Setting the scene: what is eco-innovation?
Eco-innovation is any innovation that reduces the use of natural resources (including materials, energy, water, biomass and land) and decreases the release of harmful substances across the whole life-cycle.
Source: EIO, November 2010
Measuring eco-innovation
2013 Eco-Innovation Scoreboard (EIO 2014)
Source: EIO 2013
Welcome to Planet Earth
Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA
2013 Global Eco-Innovation Scoreboard (EIO 2014)
What next for eco-innovation metrics
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Cost avoidance (regulatory requirements,
anticipation of new standards)
Cost saving (material and energy cost savings
due to efficiency gains)
New markets and customers(new competitive products and services)
Resilient business models (adapting business models to global challenges;
focus on delivering "performance")
Source: EIO 2012
Source: Miedzinski 2013
INCREMENTAL
ADAPTATION
RADICAL
CHANGE
SUB-SYSTEMS
(value chains,
sectors etc)
SYSTEM LEVEL
(society-, economy-
level transition)
DEGREE
OF CHANGE
SCOPE
OF CHANGE
ELEMENTS
OF THE SYSTEMS
(products, services,
technologies)
product
improvement
product
sharing
new resource
light products
industrial
ecology
INCREMENTAL
INNOVATION
TRANSFORMATIVE
SYSTEM INNOVATIONSYSTEM
ADAPTATION
RADICAL
INNOVATION
process
improvement
(e.g. EMAS)
material
efficient
manufacturing
extended
producer's
responsibility
functional
sales
sustainable
city
sustainable
mobility
eco-labels and
eco-vouchers value chain
optimisation
AGENTS OF
CHANGEVALUE
CREATION
• Conceptual and methodological hurdles
• Further reflection needed on scope and causal assumptions framing existing measuring systems
• Availability and quality of data
• Current systems strongly relying on proxies
• Limited access to data allowing for making strong assumptions about impacts of innovation
• Usefulness of metrics for end users
• Need to take into account the needs of users
• (Often) less is more…
• Visualisation
• Further work needed on visualising data
Selected challenges for eco-innovation metrics
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Thank you
Contact:
Michal Miedzinski ([email protected])
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