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Boosting Efficiency and Green Growth through INduced INnovation under Technological Heterogeneity.
An Elusive Goal or a Feasible Reality?
BEGIN is a research project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) and hosted by the University of Patras (Nov 2020-Mar 2024)
B.E.G.IN. at a glance
B.E.G.IN. at a glance
The project concerns the inquiry of green growth and resource efficiency under technological heterogeneity through the lens of innovation to investigate the complex relationships and underlying mechanisms affecting the former.
The recent policy framework of the Sustainable Development Goals Initiative and the recently launched European Green Deal, provides the ideal foundation for B.E.G.IN. to related the research conducted in its framework with the new growth strategy and make policy suggestions on the field.
From an empirical evidence-based policy perspective, the project B.E.G.IN. aspires to shed light on the distorting role of technological heterogeneity in the quest of comprehending the patterns of green growth.
In the same context, the project is aiming at bringing to the forefront the interplay between induced innovation, knowledge spillovers, resource scarcity and competitiveness among others, to advocate that the transition to a sustainable trajectory passes through a customised innervation instead of a one size-fits-all policy approach.
Scientific & Social Impact of B.E.G.IN.
Scientific & Social Impact of B.E.G.IN.
The scientific, academic as well as social impact of B.E.G.IN. is placed around comprehending the mechanisms affecting green growth and boost efficiency in the era of environmental degradation, climate change and resource scarcity in order to achieve a sustainability through a smooth transition.
Output is expected to be a valid source of information to policy and decision makers as well as the public audience about the necessity of promoting green growth to preserve scarce resources, mitigate climate change and environmental degradation in conjunction to the benefits of adopting green innovation and technology to achieve sustainability.
The scientific as well as the social impact of B.E.G.IN. is evidenced by the fact that the policy aspects and related implications of the recently published paper “Green growth & sustainability transition through information. Are the greener better informed? Evidence from European SMEs” have been published in Science for Environment Policy, a news service published by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).
Science for Environment Policy is a free service that provides news of the latest environmental research that has been specially selected by independent scientific advisors. Readers gain a unique insight into the vital scientific issues relevant to current EU environmental policy.
Our research has been sent out to over 20,000 policymakers, academics and business people across Europe to assist in the development of effective, evidence-based policies. The article "Factors promoting green growth include access to information on funding opportunities", based on the above paper, is freely available by the DG for Environment!
Importance of B.E.G.IN.
Importance of B.E.G.IN.
The importance of B.E.G.IN. is multifold:
Sheds light to the concept and mechanisms of green growth through innovation and spillovers to achieve sustainability which is an under-explored area so far.
Can be seen as the workhorse to build a strong and solid research capacity, which in conjunction to the development of a research agenda pave the way to create a strong and independent academic profile aiming at producing high quality outputs consistently.
Contributes to the extroversion and internationalisation of the research activity through its outputs.
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