Sustainable Innovation

The European Commission has identified six key-enabling technologies (KET) which they consider essential in order to boost Europe’s competitiveness, employment prospects and long-term term growth. Previous research already...

This project aims to assess to which extent Local Content Requirements (LCR), a industrial policy that increasingly is being employed by governments in developing and emerging economies to create local manufacturing capacities,...

Innovation is mostly seen as something positive for economic and also societal development. It is conceived as worthy of support, meaning policy makers have been enthusiastically promoting innovative activities. However,...

How peer communities advance sustainable innovations Innovation studies have traditionally focused on firm activities. However, enabled by digital technologies, peer collaboration has become an essential element of innovation...

The project aims to examine the relationship between the procurement officer and the gender of the CEO of a firm that wins a public contract. The International Trade Center (ITC) estimated that currently women-owned businesses...

The project aims to examine quantitatively the connection between firms’ participation in public procurement and their innovation activity. Thus far, the literature has established a conceptual link between public procurement and...

Contact: Rainer Quitzow. Energy transitions take shape within unique techno-economic, political and social settings. Systematic analyses of such processes at the country-level can help further our understanding of the drivers...