Innovation and Technology
Brief description
Social and technical innovations can make an important contribution to sustainable development. Social innovations frequently prove to be the prerequisite for implementing technical innovations but also often go much further. The IÖW assesses new technologies in terms of sustainability. In the process, we take account of the technical, social, economic as well as ecological opportunities and risks of these technologies and highlight structuring possibilities. A particular concern of ours is to embed sustainable technologies in political and market contexts.
Ongoing projects
SteuerBoard Energie Control mechanisms in the polycentric energy system of the future
Knowledge platform for a sustainable digitization strategy ‘Energiewendebauen’ Accompanying research ‘Energiewendebauen’ – module digitization
Digitisation and sustainability at EU level Opportunities and risks of digitisation for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at EU level
SustAIn – Sustainability Index for Artificial Intelligence
Effects of digitalisation on society and the protection of biological diversity
Development and revision of award criteria for the German Ecolabel ‘Blue Angel for textiles
Peer Innovation – Sustainable household sector innovations in collaborative networks New data sources and methods for collecting the contributions of online communities to innovation and sustainability
Opportunities and Risks of Digitization in Agriculture from the Perspective of Natural and Environmental Protection
Digitalization for Sustainability: Science in Dialogue
Indirect positive contributions from renewable energies to nature conservation InPositive
DiTex – Digital Technologies as Enabler of a Resource-efficient Circular Economy: Pilot Test in the B2B Textile Industry
Analysis of specific measures to increase demand for recycled plastics and products containing recycled plastics
Business models for reducing plastic waste along the value chain: Towards innovative trends in retailing Innoredux
Electricity neighbours: social-ecological self-sufficiency through renewable energies and sector coupling? A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin.’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin
Alternative Economies in and for Berlin A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin
Team
- Hannes Bluhm
- Dr. Swantje Gährs
- Dr. Torsten Grothmann
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Hirschl
- Dr. Esther Hoffmann
- Jannes Katner
- Dr. Florian Kern
- Dr. Steffen Lange
- Ria Müller
- Jonas Pentzien
- Ulrich Petschow
- Dr. Jan Peuckert
- Friederike Rohde
- Dr. Frieder Rubik
- Prof. Dr. Tilman Santarius
- Sabrina Schmidt
- Lukas Torliene
- Christina Vogel
- Eva Wiesemann
- Dr. Carla Young