| Contents | 6 |
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| Foreword | 8 |
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| Preface | 10 |
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| List of Contributors | 12 |
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| Part I New Approaches to Environmental Innovation Policy | 15 |
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| Windows of Opportunity for Radical Technological Change in Steel Production and the Influence of CO2 Taxes | 16 |
| 1 Introduction | 16 |
| 2 The Smelting Reduction Technology and the Conditions of Technological Competition in Ironmaking | 19 |
| 3 The Model PANTA RHEI | 23 |
| 4 Could a Carbon Tax Open a Window of Opportunity? | 25 |
| 5 Conclusions | 28 |
| References | 29 |
| Comment: Approaches to the Modelling of Innovations for Sustainable Economic Systems | 31 |
| 1 Survey of Various Model Types | 31 |
| 2 The Paper by Lutz et al. on Windows of Opportunity for Radical Innovations in Steel Production and the Influence of CO2 Taxes | 33 |
| References | 35 |
| Environmental Innovation Policy. Is Steering Innovation Processes Possible? | 37 |
| 1 Introduction | 37 |
| 2 Technological Change from an Evolutionary Economists Point of View | 38 |
| 3 Ecological Problems as Development Traps | 42 |
| 4 Suggestions for an Environmental Innovation Policy | 45 |
| 5 How to Handle Conflicts | 52 |
| 6 Concluding Remarks | 54 |
| References | 55 |
| Comment: Moderating Instead of Steering? | 59 |
| 1 Evolutionary and Innovation Economic Analysis of the Structural Patterns of the Innovation Process | 59 |
| 2 The Analysis of the Dynamic Nature of Environmental Problems and Difficulties for Internalizing Externalities | 61 |
| 3 Conceptualising a Dynamic Innovation Policy | 62 |
| 4 General Conclusions | 65 |
| References | 65 |
| Transition Management in the Electronics Industry Innovation System: Systems Innovation Towards Sustainability Needs a New Governance Portfolio | 67 |
| 1 Introduction | 67 |
| 2 Problems and Policy Developments in the Electronics Industry | 68 |
| 3 Theoretical Considerations | 69 |
| 4 Transition Processes in the Electronics Industry Innovation System | 74 |
| 5 Meso-Level Transition: Pathways to Sustainable System Innovations in the Electronics Industry | 82 |
| 6 Managing Transition in the EEIS: Problems and Suggestions | 93 |
| References | 96 |
| An Example of a Managed Transition : The Transformation of the Waste Management | 99 |
| Subsystem in the Netherlands (1960-2000) | 99 |
| References | 106 |
| Comment: Management of Industrial Transformation: Potentials and Limits from a Political Science Perspective | 107 |
| References | 111 |
| Part II Innovations and Sustainability | 113 |
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| Leading Innovations to Sustainable Future Markets | 114 |
| Co-Evolution: Sustainability Through Innovation and Cultural Change | 115 |
| The Generation of Sustainable Future Markets as Innovation Process | 116 |
| Search and Discovery Pathways for Sustainability Innovations | 117 |
| Process Competencies for the Generation of Sustainable Future Markets | 118 |
| Interpreneurship: Interactive Methods in Company Dealings | 120 |
| Using the Lead User Approach for Sustainability Innovations | 122 |
| From Lead User to Lead Market | 124 |
| References | 126 |
| Comment: Sustainable Future Markets and the Formation of Innovation Processes | 128 |
| References | 131 |
| Directional Certainty in Sustainability- Oriented Innovation Management | 132 |
| 1 Innovation as an Ambivalent Mode of Change | 132 |
| 2 Starting Point for Directional Certainty (Overview) | 136 |
| 3 Risk Reduction Criteria | 137 |
| 4 Timing in Innovation Processes | 139 |
| 5 Ex Ante Control | 142 |
| 6 Ex Post Control | 145 |
| 7 Forward Integration Through a Test Phase with Potential Users | 145 |
| 8 Individual Provisions for Directional Certainty ( Overview) | 147 |
| 9 Conclusion: Risk Reduction as a Self-Contained Sustainability Principle | 148 |
| References | 149 |
| Comment: Innovation Ability and Innovation Direction | 151 |
| 1 Innovation Ability Drivers and Restraints | 152 |
| 2 Innovation and Risk | 155 |
| 3 Two Approaches Towards a Sustainability-Oriented Design of Innovations | 159 |
| 4 Conclusion | 160 |
| References | 161 |
| Part III Arrangements in Society and Economy Towards Sustainability | 164 |
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| Deceleration Revealed Preference in Society and Win- Win- Strategy for Sustainable Management. Concepts and Experimental Evidence | 165 |
| 1 Introduction | 165 |
| 2 Reasons for and Development of Acceleration in Business and Society | 166 |
| 3 The Consequences of Acceleration | 169 |
| 4 Sustainable Management Instead of Acceleration: Deceleration as a Win- Win Strategy of Companies | 171 |
| 5 Is There a Preference for Deceleration? Measuring the Willingness to Pay for Deceleration16 | 173 |
| 6 Summary and Outlook on Future Research | 188 |
| Comment: Deceleration as a New Paradigm of Economic Science? | 190 |
| 1 Consistent with Their Own Claims? | 190 |
| 2 Continuation of the Discourse | 194 |
| References | 196 |
| Assessment Criteria for a Sustainability Impact Assessment in Europe | 197 |
| 1 Introduction | 197 |
| 2 Legal Frameworks and Institutional Reforms | 198 |
| 3 Assessment Criteria | 200 |
| 4 Towards an Application | 209 |
| 5 Conclusions | 211 |
| Acknowledgements | 212 |
| References | 213 |
| Comment: Regulatory Choice and Responsive Regulation for Sustainability | 216 |
| 1 Introduction The Problem of Regulatory Choice | 216 |
| 2 Responsive Regulation and the Role of Self- Responsibility | 217 |
| 3 Behavioural Models | 218 |
| 4 Conclusion | 220 |
| References | 221 |
