Sustainable Innovation & Digitalization

Sustainable Innovation & Digitalization

Reaching climate-neutral economies and societies in a just and equitable way requires innovation of both technological and social systems. The digital transformation offers an opportunity to accelerate the environmental transition but also create challenges to economic and energy systems.

Our work

We rely on an extensive toolbox of empirical methods - including econometric analysis, expert elicitations, big data analytics, systematic review methods and structured qualitative case studies. We explore the determinants of sustainable innovation, the design of innovation policies, the role of digitalization in the development and diffusion on environmental-friendly technologies. We examine the repercussions of innovative systems on social and economic outcomes, including distributional and equity issues. We use this empirical knowledge to generate scenarios of future technological innovation and to evaluate policies to ensure they will lead to more prosperous and resilient societies

ONGOING
UPTAKE

Bridging current knowledge gaps to enable the UPTAKE of carbon dioxide removal methods

ONGOING
AdJUST

ADVANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHALLENGES, POLICY OPTIONS AND MEASURES TO ACHIEVE A JUST EU ENERGY TRANSITION

ONGOING
CircEUlar

Developing circular pathways for a EU low-carbon transition

ONGOING
CircoMod

Circular Economy Modelling for Climate Change Mitigation

ONGOING
GEOCEP

Global Excellence in Modeling Climate and Energy Policies

ONGOING
LOCALISED

Localised decarbonisation pathways for citizens, local administrations and businesses to inform for mitigation and adaptation action

ONGOING
EDITS

Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations

ONGOING
2D4D

Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization

CLOSED
ECO-DEKS

External knowledge sourcing strategies for environmental innovation in the industrial sector of Nigeria

CLOSED
INNOPATHS

Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe

Herman K. S., Kim Y. J., Shayegh S. & Xiang J.

A critical review of green growth indicators in G7 economies from 1990 to 2019

Sustainability Science , - 2023