Types of eco-innovations applied in the survey
| Type | Definition | Author | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated eco-innovations | They relate to integrated innovations that make the process of production or the product more eco-efficient than similar processes or products. | Andersen (2008); Kemp and Pearson (2007) | ITEC |
| Environmental technologies of pollution control | They pollution control-related technologies, such as wastewater treatment, clean-up of pollution released in the environment, new cleaner manufacturing processes and/or that use the resources more efficiently, equipment to treat waste, and noise control. | Kemp and Pearson (2007) | TAMB |
| Organizational and macro-organizational innovation | It introduces organization methods and management systems to deal with environmental issues in the production and products. It includes systemic solutions among organizations | Kemp and Pearson (2007); Andersen (2008) | IORG |
| Add-on eco-innovations | They are products (artifacts or services) that improve the customer’s environmental performance, including technologies and services that clean, dilute, recycle, measure, control and transport the pollution as well as the ones that improve the supply of natural resources and energy. | Andersen (2008) | IADI |
| Green innovation systems – alternative products | Alternative production and consumption systems that are environmentally more benign than the existing ones. | Kemp and Pearson (2007); Andersen (2008) | ISIS |
| General Purpose | Technologies of general use that affect the economy and may contribute for a series of other innovations | Andersen (2008) | EPG |
| Type | Definition | Author | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated eco-innovations | They relate to integrated innovations that make the process of production or the product more eco-efficient than similar processes or products. | ITEC | |
| Environmental technologies of pollution control | They pollution control-related technologies, such as wastewater treatment, clean-up of pollution released in the environment, new cleaner manufacturing processes and/or that use the resources more efficiently, equipment to treat waste, and noise control. | TAMB | |
| Organizational and macro-organizational innovation | It introduces organization methods and management systems to deal with environmental issues in the production and products. It includes systemic solutions among organizations | IORG | |
| Add-on eco-innovations | They are products (artifacts or services) that improve the customer’s environmental performance, including technologies and services that clean, dilute, recycle, measure, control and transport the pollution as well as the ones that improve the supply of natural resources and energy. | IADI | |
| Green innovation systems – alternative products | Alternative production and consumption systems that are environmentally more benign than the existing ones. | ISIS | |
| General Purpose | Technologies of general use that affect the economy and may contribute for a series of other innovations | EPG |
Notes:
ITEC (Integrated ecologic innovations); TAMB (Environmental technologies of pollution control); IORG (Organizational and macro-organizational innovation); IADI (Add-on eco-innovations); ISIS (Green innovation systems – alternative products); EPG (General Purpose)
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