Instruments for Supporting Environmental Innovations - Status Quo and Evaluation

Instruments for Supporting Environmental Innovations - Status Quo and Evaluation

Client/Allowance

Umweltbundesamt (UBA)

Period: 23.10.2006 – 31.03.2007

In order to use natural resources more efficiently in the future and to minimize environmental pollution, far-reaching new technological developments, as well as product, operational and organizational innovations have in part become compulsory. Against this background, the question arised as to how environmental policy can support such innovational activities. The research and development project maked the following contributions: (1) an overview of the most important instruments for the promotion of environmental innovations in Germany, (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of those instruments, including a gap and deficiency analysis, (3) a presentation of foreign best practice examples (instruments and environmental approaches), as well as (4) suggestions for prioritized, environmental starting points for the further development of the instruments and the illustration of additional research requirements.

Project members

Klaus Rennings

Klaus Rennings

Project Coordinator
Acting Head

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Christian Rammer

Christian Rammer

Deputy

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Client/Allowance
Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Dessau, DE
Cooperation partner
Freie Universität Berlin, Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik, Berlin, DE

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