Ettlingen (near Karlsruhe) / Germany
5 May (evening) – 7 May 2010
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

Organisers: Rainer Walz, Katrin Ostertag, Carsten Gandenberger

Programme

Wednesday, 5th of May

19:00 WELCOME-DINNER at Watt’s Brasserie, next to Hotel Watthalden

Thursday, 6th of May

Session 1: Introduction

• 09:30 Linking economic catch up to sustainability innovations research: conceptual issues and a top down approach on capabilities of NICs in sustainability technologies
  Rainer Walz (Fraunhofer ISI)
  Discussant: Asel Doranova (Technopolis)

Session 2: Institutional context and organizational response to eco-innovation
Chair: Carsten Gandenberger (Fraunhofer ISI)

• 10:45 Urban Water Innovation Systems in Newly Industrializing Countries: Case studies of Brazil, China, India, and South Africa
  Jan Peuckert (TU Berlin)
  Discussant: Christian Binz (EAWAG-Cirus)
• 11:30 Eco-Innovation and Financial Performance in Africa
  Joseph Adelegan (Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research), Bo Carlsson, Sheri Perelli (Case Western Reserve University)
  Discussant: Carsten Gandenberger (Fraunhofer ISI)

12:15 LUNCH at Watt's Brasserie

Session 3: Global and local perspectives on eco-innovation
Chair: Zeeda Fatima Mohamad

• 14:00 Sustainability transitions in global technolo-gical innovation systems –The case of water recycling technology
  Bernhard Truffer/Christian Binz (Eawag-Cirus)
  Discussant: Jan Peuckert (TU Berlin)
• 14:45 Pursuing Co-benefit of Sustainable Growth and Green Innovation in China
  Wang Yi (CAS-IPM)
  Discussant: Jonathan Köhler (Fraunhofer ISI)

15:30 Coffee-break

Session 4: Sustainability transitions in infrastructures
Chair: Wang Yi (CAS-IPM)

• 16:00 LED technologies, a way to create sustainability in energy sectoral system of Innovation of NICs: A case of India
  Rajbeer Singh (Central University of Gujarat)
  Discussant: Zeeda Fatima Mohamad (University of Malaya)
• 16:45 Decarbonizing South Africa? Prospects and barriers to the energy transition
  Anna Pegels/Andreas Stamm (German Development Institute)
  Discussant: Malte Schneider (ETH Zürich)

17:30 End

19:30 DINNER at Hartmaier's Villa Restaurant, next to Hotel Watthalden

Friday, 7st of May

Session 5: Empirical evidence from technological catching-up processes
Chair: Katrin Ostertag (Fraunhofer ISI)

• 09:00 The role of absorptive capacity in technological learning in CDM projects: evidences from survey in Brazil, China, India and Mexico
  Asel Doranova (Technopolis)
  Discussant: Kristin Reichardt (Fraunhofer ISI)
• 9:45 The emergence of fuel cell technology and challenges to latecomer countries: Insights from Singapore and Malaysia
  Zeeda Fatima Mohamad (University of Malaya)
  Discussant: Christian Sartorius (Fraunhofer ISI)

10:30 Coffee break

Session 6: Climate change related innovation processes in NIC
Chair: Jonathan Köhler (Fraunhofer ISI)

• 11:00 Meeting India's Developmental and Climate Challenges: An Innovation-Cooperation Approach
  Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology)
  Discussant: Wang Yi (CAS-IPM)
• 11:45 Fostering and measuring low‐carbon transitions
  Malte Schneider (ETH Zürich)
  Discussant: Rajbeer Singh (Central University of Gujarat)

12:30 LUNCH at Watt's Brasserie, next to Hotel Watthalden

14:00 Session 7: Round Table "Green Growth in NIC – Challenges and Opportunities"
Chair: Rainer Walz (Fraunhofer ISI)

• Joseph Adelegan (Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research)
• Ludovico Alcorta (UNIDO)
• Wolfgang Eichhammer (Fraunhofer ISI)
• Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology)
• Wang Yi (CAS-IPM)

15:30 End