Indicator systems for sustainable innovation : with 9 tables

Aresearch programmeinitiated and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activitiesthat contributeto the realization of a sustainable development.This book links the experiences of different sub-projects with the aim to develop a system of indicatorsto evaluate sustainable effects of (environmental) innovations. A comprehensive framework for an indicator system has been establishedthat allowsto include different environmental innovation fields such as process innovations in the steel production, substitution of dangerous chemicals, organisational innovations in the field of waste disposal or sustainable water management