40 Innovation Policy and Sustainable Development - IWT

an account of the Austrian programme on
Technologies for Sustainable development,
in particular the two thematic sub-programmes
on the House and the Factory of
Tomorrow. They are not limited to technology
development but include the necessary
complements of demonstration projects and
knowledge dissemination. The integration
of multiple goals and multiple types of innovation
is a characteristic of the programme
design. As in the other cases evaluation
therefore is a rather complex issue.
SUMMARY:
TOWARDS POLICY-INTEGRATION
The Summary of Patries Boekholt attempts
to draw some conclusions referring back to
the objectives of the conference, namely to
see whether a closer integration of innovation
policy and environmental policy on
the overlap of innovation for sustainable
development, is feasible. If the effectiveness
of general innovation policy is not clearly
established by direct measurement we do
know that it is the policy mix that works
on the level of innovation systems.
Environmental policies have demonstrated
some effectiveness in changing behaviour in
addressing focussed technological challenges.
The challenge now is to extend these more
targeted approaches towards a systemic
change process affecting the broader business
community. We will need further policy
innovations in the field of policy integration.
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