报告时间：2010年12月1日下午1:30

报告地点：浙大玉泉校区热能工程研究所(能源清洁利用国家重点实验室)205会议室

报告题目：Eco-innovation research - state of the art and research needs

        2010年12月1日下午，欧洲经济研究中心副主任，欧洲著名的环境创新管理和能源管理及政策领域的专家，德国联邦政府环境科学和政策顾问，Klaus Rennings教授应邀来浙江大学做有关生态创新研究学术报告，并进行相关研究的相互探讨。Rennings教授将为浙大师生介绍其生态创新评测、节能创新影响要素和机制、煤燃烧发电的渐进创新和突破创新等项目研究。Rennings教授主要进行有关绿色创新管理和政策研究，目前的研究项目主要围绕节能和新能源战略和政策、排放交易、碳储存等管理和政策研究。

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Klaus Rennings教授个人简介

Dr. Klaus Rennings is Vice Head of the Research area “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management“ of the Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW) since 1994. He made his PhD 1994 at the University of Muenster, Institute of Transport Economics, with a thesis on “Indicators of Sustainable Development”. During the same time he was assistant at the "German Council of Environmental Advisors", an interdisciplinary advisory council of environmental scientists for the Federal Government. His main fields of research are:

• Specification of rules, indicators, and strategies for sustainable economic activities
• Determinants and economic impacts of environmental innovations
• Eco-innovation policies
• Sustainability Impacts Assessment

Klaus Rennings has widely published in journals such as Ecological Economics and Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He is experienced as leader of big national and international projects since 10 year, including the EU STRATA network Blueprint ("Blueprints for an Integration of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy") and the EU Project I.Q. Tools ("Indicators and Quantitative Tools for Improving the Process of Impact Assessment for Sustainability"). His ongoing project co-ordinations include two big projects funded by the German Ministry of Research, “Lead Market Strategies: First Mover, Early Follower and Late Follower” and “The Social Dimension of the Rebound Effect”. He is member of the committee environmental and resource economics of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).

Klaus Rennings is leading the research group “Innovation and Sustainable Development” at ZEW. This research area explores the implications of sustainable development for the political arena and, in particular, for firms. In past and ongoing projects, economists in this research area have investigated the determinants and effects of green innovations, developed applied equilibrium models for the representation of innovation behaviour, and have modelled the adaptive behaviour of households.

学术报告内容简介

Title: Eco-innovation research - state of the art and research needs

Abstract: During the past 15 years a lot of work has been done in eco-innovation research. Within the same time, the topic has received increasing attention from policy makers, e.g. specific and increasingly segmented policies for promoting eco-innovations have been introduced in several countries. The aim of this lecture is to present and discuss the latest state of research on eco-innovation. First it will present the different relevant underlying concepts that should be known to understand eco-innovation policy. Secondly, the question how to define and measure eco-innovations will be discussed. Third, results from innovation surveys on determinants and impacts of innovations in material and energy efficiency will be presented. This contributes some empirical evidence on the Porter hypothesis postulating a positive effect of environmental policy on competitiveness via innovation. Finally, an example is shown that questions if radical instead of incremental eco-innovations in coal-fired power plant are always preferable from a sustainability perspective.