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Actualités

OECD Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit

12-sept.-2011

This toolkit aims to provide a practical starting point for businesses around the world to improve the efficiency of their production processes and products enabling them to contribute to sustainable development and green growth. It includes an internationally applicable common set of indicators helping businesses measure their environmental performance at the level of a plant or facility. In addition to the Toolkit's web portal, the user guide booklet is now available.

Just published: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth

12-sept.-2011

Innovation is key to green growth. It helps decouple growth from natural capital depletion and contributes to economic growth and job creation. Business is the driver of innovation, but governments need to provide clear and stable market signals. This book explores policy actions for the deployment of new technologies and innovations as they emerge: investment in research and development, support for commercialisation, strengthening markets and fostering technology diffusion. Competition will be essential to bring out the best solutions.


Evénements

OECD/European Commission/Nordic Innovation Joint Workshop on the Future of Eco-Innovation: The Role of Business Models in Green Transformation

du 19-janv.-2012 au 20-janv.-2012

Firms and entrepreneurs are exploring green business opportunities increasingly based on systemic thinking and radical innovations with the aim of capturing and creating value from new business models. Both the OECD and Nordic Innovation (NI) are currently conducting business case studies on business model-based eco-innovation. This workshop, which was held in Copenhagen, showcased good practices from these studies and showed enhanced understanding of the role that new business models play, as well as establishing a network of experts and innovators in this area.



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