Measuring Eco-Innovation (MEI): final report is out
The Final Report of the FP6 project 'Measuring Eco-Innovation' (MEI) is available here (26 March 2008).
Worth reminding is the definition of eco-innovation discussed during this project. The final definition emphasises the actual effects (the environmental performance) over the stated aims:
'Eco-innovation is the production, assimilation or exploitation of a product, production process, service or management or business method that is novel to the organisation (developing or adopting it) and which results, throughout its life cycle, in a reduction of environmental risk, pollution and other negative impacts of resources use (including energy use) compared to relevant alternatives' (p. 7).
This definition is innovative and relevant
This definition focuses on the environmental effects rather than the environmental aims, and on the eco-innovation's institutional context. In my opinion it is thus innovative with regard to common approaches of eco-innovation, in the literature as well as in policy initiatives such as (with due respect) ETAP or Europe INNOVA. This makes it particularly relevant to the discussion initiated in this forum.
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