DIME WP 2.5 Workshop on Empirical Analyses of Environmental Innovations
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe
January, 17th-18th, 2008
Call for papers and pratical details
Programme
Thursday, 17th of January
12:00 Buffet Lunch at Fraunhofer ISI
12:45 Welcome
Katrin Ostertag, Vanessa Oltra
Session 1:
Environmental innovation – theoretical and methodological issues
Chair: René Kemp (UNU-MERIT)
- 13:00 Eco-innovation - theoretical and methodological considerations
Maj Munch Andersen
Disussant: Marko Hekkert (Utrecht University) - 13:30 Determinants of environmental innovation - Theoretical concepts and empirical evidence from different data sources
Jens Horbach (HS Anhalt)
Discussant: Albert Faber (MNP) - 14:00 The innovation effects of environmental policy instruments - a typical case of the blind men and the elephant
René Kemp (UNU-MERIT), Serena Pontoglio (CERIS)
Discussant: Jochen Markard (Cirus)
14:30 Coffee break
Session 2:
Systemic Analysis of Environmental Innovation
Chair: Katrin Ostertag (Fraunhofer ISI)
- 15:00 Analysing ecological innovations in production and consumption systems: Methodological consequences of a systemic approach
Frank Boons (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Discussant: Maj Munch Andersen (Risø) - 15:30 A complex systems methodology to transition management
Malte Schwoon (MPI Hamburg), Floortje Alkemade (Utrecht University), Koen Frenken (URU Utrecht), Marco Hekkert (Utrecht University)
Discussant: René Kemp, UNU-MERIT - 16:00 Dynamics of Innovation Systems: Empirical evidence for functional patterns
Simona O. Negro and Marko P. Hekkert (Utrecht University),
Discussant: Rainer Walz (Fraunhofer ISI) - 16:30 Public support of environmental innovations in the energy sector: challenges at the interface of sectoral technology policy, energy policy and national innovation systems
Jochen Markard, Steffen Wirth (Cirus)
Discussant: Christian Sartorius (Fraunhofer ISI)
17:00 Coffee break
Session 3:
Environmental innovation – firm strategies and consumption behaviour
Chair: Vanessa Oltra (GREThA)
- 17:30 Domestic micro-cogeneration in the Netherlands: an agent-based demand model for technology diffusion
Albert Faber (MNP), Marco Valente (Univ. L’Aquila), Peter Janssen (MNP), Koen Frenken (URU Utrecht)
Discussant: Eric Brouillat (Univ. Bordeaux) - 18:00 The role of knowledge, incentives and consumption behaviour in environmental innovations: An application to car purchases
Alex Coad (MPI Jena), Peter de Haan (ETH Zürich), Julia S. Wörsdorfer (MPI Jena)
Discussant: Koen Frenken (URU Utrecht) - 18:30 Leadership for sustainability through innovation and integration: The cases of renewable resources, chemicals and electronic products
Marcus Wagner (TU München), Patrick Llerena BETA, ULP Strasbourg)
Discussant: Katrin Ostertag (Fraunhofer ISI) - 19:00 The influence of perceived uncertainties on the diffusion of sustainable technology – A case study of four biomass conversion technologies in the Netherlands
Marc Marsidi, Simona Negro, Floortje Alkemade (Utrecht University)
Friday, 18th of January
Session 4:
Public policy and environmental innovation
Chair: Knut Blind, TU Berlin (tbc)
- 09:00 Energy , development and the environment: An appraisal three decades after the limits to growth debate
Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi,
St.Anna School for Advanced Studies
Discussant: Vanessa Oltra (GREThA) - 09:30 Determinants of environmental regulation and its role for the diffusion of environmental management systems
Jan Peuckert (TU Berlin)
Discussant: Marcus Wagner (TU München) - 10:00 Policy instruments for environmental innovations
Frans Oosterhuis, Onno Kuik (IVM, VU Amsterdam)
Discussant: Maider Saint-Jean (GREThA)
10.30 Coffee break
- 10:45 Policy vs. consumer pressure: Innovation and diffusion of alternative bleaching technologies in the pulp industry
David Popp, Tamara Hafner (Syracuse University), Nick Johnstone (OECD)
Discussant: Rainer Frietsch (Fraunhofer ISI) - 11:15 Regulation and Innovation: the case of renewable energy technologies
Rainer Walz, Mario Ragwitz, Joachim Schleich (Fraunhofer ISI)
Discussant: Frans Oosterhuis (IVM, VU Amsterdam)
11:45 Coffee break
- 12:00 Round Table: Environmental innovation research needs
Rainer Walz (Fraunhofer ISI, Chair), Peter Franz (BMU Germany), Nick Johnstone (OECD), Patrick Llerena (ULP Strasbourg), n.n.
13:00 Buffet Lunch at Fraunhofer ISI