In order to improve the innovation climate in Germany and Europe, representatives of research-intensive large companies and meanwhile the EU are calling for the introduction of an “innovation principle”, which should [...]
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Cooperation between corporations and NGOs offer the potential to generate or co-develop sustainable business models and practices. At the same time they are suposed to contribute to the organisational development and [...]
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The aim of the collaboration between the ECN and the IÖW was an adaption of the methodology of the IÖW WeBEE model for the Netherlands as well as the application of the model in order to achieve first results for value added [...]
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On behalf of the think tank Denkwerk Demokratie, IÖW has examined the conditions for a mobility transition as well as its implications for the German automotive industry. Denkwerk Demokratie is financed by trade unions and [...]
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Prosumers play a major role within the discussion about the shaping process of the energy turnaround. Furthermore and in line with the amendment process of the EEG 2017, participation possibilities of tenants were discussed [...]
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Based on the study “Mieterstrom: Legal Classification, Forms of Organisation, Potentials and Economic Efficiency of Tenant-run Electricity Models” commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the [...]
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For the launch of a new green power tariff in May 2017, Greenpeace Energy commissioned the IÖW to conduct a brief study. The aim of the study was to analyze potential value-added and employment effects in 2030 by the [...]
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With this project, the IÖW aims to show which regional economic effects might be associated with the production, installation and operation of straw-fired heating plants, i.e. to what extent regional value added and [...]
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The project examines the complex concept of alternative economy with an explorative approach, it points out possibilities of social, economic and ecological effects and deduces needs for action for the state politics of North [...]
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Main objective of the project is to support the German Federal Environment Agency in its plethora of activities to strengthen green public procurement (GPP). To realise it, different activities are envisaged which refer to [...]
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Since 1994 the IÖW/future Ranking of Sustainability Reports regularly assesses the extra-financial reports of the largest German companies on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the other. The basis [...]
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Due to the energy transition, all stakeholders in the energy industry are facing fundamental challenges. They have to realign and coordinate their positions, strategies, decisions and actions. This also applies to private [...]
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The German „Energiewende“ is understood as a project of societal transformation with the goal to create a resilient energy system. Due to path-dependency, such transformation cannot be achieved by public regulation only, but [...]
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The central objective of the project is to identify possible development pathways for heat supply in the existing housing stock, which take into account social needs, are accepted by stakeholders, and enable a reduction of [...]
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In a brief study, resulting effects of a change in the distribution mechanism of the costs for the EEG apportionment were examined. The re-design proposed an extension of the basis for the EEG apportionment which not only [...]
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