Joint fact-finding in practice: Review of a collaborative approach to climate-ready infrastructure in Rotterdam

Joint fact-finding has been advanced as a method for helping stakeholders grappling with technically intensive policy and planning challenges to collaboratively engage in research and arrive at shared sets of facts to inform their decision-making. This paper introduces joint fact-finding and considers its application in the context of...

Innovatieprestatie in Nederlandse Topsectoren = Innovation performance in Dutch top sectors

The goal of the European Committee is to achieve 3% of the GDP by 2020, which could create 3.7 million jobs within the European Union. For achieving this target, the European Commission continued the track of the Lisbon Strategy into the 2020 Strategy enacting amongst other the initiative “Innovation Union”. Given the importance of innovation,...

Global sustainability accounting-developing EXIOBASE for multi-regional footprint analysis

Measuring progress towards sustainable development requires appropriate frameworks and databases. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is undergoing continuous refinement with these objectives in mind. In SEEA, there is a need for databases to encompass the global dimension of societal metabolism. In this paper, we focus on the...

Product services for a resource-efficient and circular economy - A review

Since the 1990s, Product Service Systems (PSS) have been heralded as one of the most effective instruments for moving society towards a resource-efficient, circular economy and creating a much-needed 'resource revolution'. This paper reviews the literature on PSS in the last decade and compares the findings with those from an earlier review in...

Agenda voor Nederland. Inspired by technology

Wetenschap, technologie en innovatie vormen een essentiële sleutel voor de toekomstige ontwikkeling van een welvarend en duurzaam Nederland. Nederland is goed gepositioneerd en heeft op veel gebieden wetenschappelijke topposities. De vraag is hoe we die sterke internationale positie kunnen behouden door ons te richten op de belangrijke...

The Impact of Horizon 2020 on Innovation in Europe

The EU’s stagnation on many innovation indicators led to a number of efforts to spur a turnaround. One of most visible projects has been the Horizon 2020 strategy, which devotes unprecedented levels of funding to the promotion of R&D and innovation. But does this strategy address the right issues to promote innovation? Is Horizon 2020 right to...

Quantifying the direct and indirect rebound effects for consumers as a response to energy-saving technologies in the EU-27

We estimate the rebound effect for residential space heating at the EU-27 level, which occurs when an improvement in energy efficiency results in additional energy consumption. Three types of rebound effects are distinguished, namely the direct effect, indirect effect and the embodied energy. We demonstrate that the magnitude of the direct...

Is the response to the climate change and energy challenge a model for the societal challenges approach to innovation

Eigen inkomsten geen panacee voor bezuinigingen

De bekostiging van de cultuursector is als gevolg van de bezuinigingen aan het veranderen. Het Rijk zet in op meer ondernemerschap en eigen inkomsten, maar is dat genoeg?

Modeling peak oil and the geological constraints on oil production

We propose a model to reconcile the theory of inter-temporal non-renewable resource depletion with well-known stylized facts concerning the exploitation of exhaustible resources such as oil. Our approach introduces geological constraints into a Hotelling type extraction-exploration model. We show that such constraints, in combination with...

A comprehensive review of the evolving and cumulative nature of eco-innovation in the chemical industry

Different bodies of literature have attempted to explain what factors and events drive industries throughout processes of environmental change. The latter is a gradual, historical process of evolution from lower to higher degrees of development. Based on concepts derived from evolutionary economics, greening technological progress and resource...

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