Fernando Javier Díaz López- PhD in International Economic Development, University of East Anglia
- Executive Director at HEC Paris
Fernando Javier Díaz López
- PhD in International Economic Development, University of East Anglia
- Executive Director at HEC Paris
Executive Director Climate & Earth Centre, HEC Paris.
Associate Professor extra-ordinary, Stellenbosch University.
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Introduction
Fernando is the director of the Climate & Earth Centre @ HEC Paris. He is also the associate editor of the Cleaner Waste Systems (Elsevier) and Applications of Circular Economy Journals. He is Associate Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University and a Research Fellow at SEEDS (Unife) and INNOGREN (U. Alcala).
An applied researcher & scholar, Fernando works in strategy and policy aspects of eco-innovation, circular business models, and transformational climate resilience in business.
Current institution
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September 2020 - October 2021
Technopolis Group
Position
- Principal consultant
Description
- Principal consultant / investigator on innovation for sustainability, climate action, circularity and green growth.
March 2015 - present
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Associate professor (extra-ordinary) at the Department of Industrial Engineering, research group of Sustainability Systems.
October 2007 - July 2009
Education
October 2002 - December 2007
September 2000 - September 2002
September 1995 - July 2000
Publications
Publications (61)
This paper analyses 143 cases about the implementation of various and often interlinked, integrative, Resource Efficiency Measures (REMs). These REMs have been brought in a framework distinguishing on the one hand a cluster of supply side measures, demand side measures and life cycle measures with a synergistic mode of operation. They further have...
This VSI focuses on what cross-cutting insights might be gained from research to increase the energy/materials circularity and the contribution of eco-innovation, cleaner consumption, and waste management to produce a logical body of knowledge that may lead to increased resilience and a sustainable Planet. The articles’ collection shows development...
Through careful investigation into the role of eco-innovation as a catalysing factor in the societal transition towards sustainability, this Handbook proposes more appropriate measures of innovation as a driver of change. It examines innovation from various perspectives, including labour, trade, the circular economy and energy, to illustrate a more...
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Cooperatives address societal challenges embracing values beyond mere profit-oriented production. Considering the ongoing shift to achieve efficient use of resources and increased circularity, cooperatives should be better equipped to incorporate circular economy (CE) and eco-innovation (EI) into their strategies (compared to regular enterprises)....
It is well-attested that reaching environmental sustainability is now an objective for governments, citizens, and firms. To reach set sustainability, it tests firms’ ability to eco-innovate (EI) or innovate in processes to achieve environmental sustainability. The application of circular economy (CE) or the process where energy and resources are re...
Currently, it is possible to identify that the convergence of innovation and sustainability has generated concepts such as: sustainable innovation, green innovation, and eco-innovation. From these definitions it is possible to recognize innovations that benefit the environment or minimize negative impacts on the planet. In this sense, the objective...
Este artículo se centra en en un estudio comparativo sobre la gestión de programas de apoyo público para el desarrollo de ecosistemas de eco-innovación, con particular atención en la gobernanza y la financiación. En el presente análisis de casos se adopta un enfoque longitudinal para el análisis de los programas de eco-innovación, desde el diseño h...
This guidebook is a resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the intersection between climate and R&I policies, particularly those analysing emerging cleantech ecosystems in island states and particularly in nations with less advanced entrepreneurial ecosystems.
This guidebook is organised as follows: this first section presents som...
This document provides information related to the topic of financial incentives acting as a barrier to eco-innovation in Mexico. In particular, it focuses on public R&D grants as an example of a particular type of financial policy incentives.
This chapter is organised as follows. Following an introduction, sections two and three briefly presents...
This chapter presents the overall conceptual framework behind the Handbook. This is followed by a section dealing with messages about fundamental uncertainties and the avenues of research guiding this book. The concluding section presents the different chapters included in this Handbook.
La innovación verde puede desempeñar un papel central en la transición a un nuevo modelo de desarrollo sostenible en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Este documento desarrolla un marco conceptual para la intervención pública en este ámbito, considerando distintas tipologías de instrumentos y elaborando recomendaciones para la implementación...
La innovación verde puede desempeñar un papel central en la transición a un nuevo modelo de desarrollo sostenible en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Este documento presenta una selección de estudios de casos de implementación de instrumentos de política pública que constituyen buenas prácticas internacionales. El análisis de cada programa...
Este documento analiza factores para el desarrollo y difusión de conocimiento e innovación para tecnologías asociadas a los Usos Directos de Energía Geotérmica en México, en el contexto de las políticas para la transición energética durante el periodo 2008-2020. Se utilizó el enfoque de los Sistemas de Innovación Tecnológica, por su utilidad para i...
Over past decades concepts like sustainability and industrial development are slowly coming to the same operational logic. This is indicated by a growing interest to explore and describe the synergy between developments in the Circular Economy (ID) and Industrial Digitalization (ID). There is agreement on their complementarity evolution paths, but...
Over past decades concepts like sustainability and industrial development are slowly coming to the same operational logic. This is indicated by a growing interest to explore and describe the synergy between developments in the Circular Economy (ID) and Industrial Digitalization (ID). There is agreement on their complementarity evolution paths, but...
The departure point of the paper is the assumption that the future impact of digitalisation on climate’s Earth is unknown. While acknowledging that digital technologies can bring about a major decarbonisation of economic sectors, the paper argues there is insufficient policy attention to critical aspects of the sustainability impacts of digital sol...
This chapter focuses on how digitization can accelerate convergence in science and innovation, examining how it can support design, operation, and adaptive learning for the system as a whole and for actors along supply chains and markets. It briefly reviews key tenets of convergence science and innovation (CI). The first key enabler of CI is the co...
Conventional science, technology and innovation (STI) agendas have fueled powerful economic growth and social progress around the world. However, negative outcomes associated with such growth progressively cumulated in a set of interconnected grand challenges like climate change, hunger, and other goals of sustainable development. Societal-scale so...
The Maastricht Manual on Measuring Eco-innovation offers guidance on the measurement of eco-innovation in order to provide high quality data for research and policies to support the green economy.
The Maastricht Manual has been designed for researchers, policy makers and statisticians from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and other organisation...
This paper published at Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, written by experts of eco-innovation, offers guidance on the measurement of eco-innovation for a green economy. This is done through definitions, an explanation of important issues for understanding, a dis- cussion of the various ways in which eco-innovation (in its different forms) can be meas...
Esta publicación es un aporte para que los países de Latinoamérica avancen, individualmente y como región, en la definición de los retos y las estrategias de política que −desde la perspectiva del desarrollo científico y tecnológico, la innovación y la transferencia de tecnología− les permita hacer de los sistemas nacionales de innovación (SIN) una...
The questions the inno4sd STI Policy Roadmaps for the SDGs guidelines respond to include:
What is roadmapping, and what are key design features of roadmaps?
How to adjust roadmapping techniques to apply it to design and implementation of STI policies?
How to design and implement STI for the SDGs policy roadmaps?
These guidelines address this gap...
The paper reviews the literature, over the last three decades, to map out the existing body of knowledge of the themes associated with the concepts of ‘eco-innovation’ and ‘green economy’. The aim is to better understand the cohesion, integration, inter- relatedness, evolution and exposure in the scientific literature of the concepts. A bibliometri...
This policy brief contains advice for Eco-innovation policy which requires accurate assessments of the environmental consequences of innovations. This is because it is difficult to assess the positive or negative macro-environmental impacts of innovations, because they are not inherent to a technology, but a product of physical, behavioural, social...
This report is the result of two research activities of the European Commission's funded initative ELAN network. The first research activity (A1) corresponds to the assessment of the needs of the European industry to enter into collaboration with Latin America and the Caribbean. The second research activity (A2) involves the evaluation of the state...
Paper submitted to the Joint Actions on Climate Change conference, 8-10 June, Aalborg, Denmark.
Different bodies of literature have attempted to explain what factors and events drive industries throughout processes of environmental change. The latter is a gradual, historical process of evolution from lower to higher degrees of development. Based on concepts derived from evolutionary economics, greening technological progress and resource-base...
Eco-innovation holds the promise of facilitating the achievement of environmental goals while supporting economic welfare. This idea has been appealing to policy makers and politicians, as it resolves an apparent trade-off between environmental quality and economic prosperity.
Eco-innovation policies aim to stimulate the development and deployment...
This paper exemplifies the use of qualitative research methods in eco-innovation research using large volumes of data. The document presents a method for performing a computer-aided content analysis of a large pool of publications, and it is used to pre-identify factors related to sustainability and innovation in the chemical sector. NVivo® was use...
The POLFREE project explores drivers and barriers to resource efficiency and creates a vision
for a resource efficient economy in Europe. The purpose of this report is to shed light on
changes to business model that support resource efficiency. This report also provides an
attempt to identify how business overcame barriers to resource efficiency wh...
This report focusses on the barriers that businesses may experience upon increasing their
resource efficiency. The content of this report is as follows:
· Chapter 2 presents a brief literature review and describes the conceptual framework
for conducting the business barrier analysis.
· Chapter 3 to 7 describe the results of the barrier analysis bas...
Inclusive innovation literature provides manifold examples and some answers as to how projects can achieve the full potential of the BoP market and what factors can be considered important in determining the likelihood of an innovation’s success. But the existing literature and methods for analysis are mostly oriented towards firms’ strategies or p...
Despite the apparent potential of product-service systems (PSS) as a more profitable, resource efficient and socially responsible form of eco-innovation, there has seemingly been limited uptake of this type of business model. A current gap in the literature is that most of the available academic work on PSS has focussed on design strategies, enviro...
This EMInInn study discusses the conceptual difficulties, recent empirical findings and implications of green growth and eco-innovation. Its main aim is a survey on the issues and a discussion of the policy dimension, which shall be utilized to make progress with macro-indicators on eco-innovation in the EU.
El presente ensayo tiene por objeto contribuir al conocimiento para el desarrollo del tema de la economía sustentable en méxico. Por lo anterior, este trabajo intenta clarificar el tema de economía verde ante los retos de México, frente al cambio climático y al combate a la pobreza. Ante la falta de datos e indicadores sobre economía verde en Méxic...
The aim of this report is to capture eco-innovative activity and provide a detailed examination of the potential for eco-innovation in nine sectors: biotechnology, automotive, electrical and optical equipment, aeronautics and space, construction, knowledge intensive business services, wholesale and retail trade, textile and clothing, and food and d...
En la última década, el tema de la innovación para la sostenibilidad ambiental ha acaparado los titulares de un sinnúmero de publicaciones de diversa índole. A este tipo de innovación, se le ha asociado con una gran cantidad de conceptos, incluyendo: tecnologías verdes (greentech), tecnologías limpias (cleantech), innovación ambiental (environmen¬t...
This chapter provides a review of the evolution of the process of greening the chemical industry. It explains the concept of greening industries, firms and technologies followed by a brief note on business strategy and its relation to "greening". Next, a historical account on the relation between the chemical industry and the environment is present...
Terms associated to competitiveness and sustainability at the level of the firm can be easily found in publications of diverse nature, but to date hardly any definition has been provided. The previous supposes a burden for coupling theory and practice in the field of eco-innovation for sustainability and competitiveness. This review paper seeks to...
Among the many factors that drive innovation, emerging new technologies have always played a key role in the history of innovation. New technological developments open up new paths for inventing new products and processes and advancing current technology. Particularly important in this respect are those technologies that have a great potential to a...
This paper makes a distinction between three theoretical frameworks that have been highly influential in the discourse on innovation, competitiveness and sustainability: sectoral systems of innovation (SSI), technological innovation systems (TIS) and socio-technical systems (ST-Systems). These frameworks share a common systems approach to innovatio...
The main purpose of this report is to provide a deeper understanding on how the
systemic context may affect/ foster SCP. Section 15 presents systemic theories for
change, and analyses which novel policy instruments such theories suggest fostering
SCP. Section 16 presents lessons from a number of cases where systemic theories of
change where the bas...
This paper makes a distinction between three analytical frameworks that have been highly influential in the discourse on innovation, competitiveness and sustainability: sectoral systems of innovation (SSI), technological innovation systems (TIS) and socio- technical systems (including transitions) (STS). These frameworks share a common systemic app...
The main objective of this paper is to provide a methodological framework to identify eco-innovation strategies and drivers using micro-innovation data from small-scale surveys. The proposed method is used to measure eco-innovation strategies at the level of the firm, at the time it contributes to reducing biased and trivial choices for the identif...
The objectives of this research are: to provide an understanding of eco-innovation strategies in firms, using the case of the Mexican chemical industry as an example of advanced developing countries; to analyse how different levels of eco-innovation strategies can be assessed; and, to unveil those factors affecting the eco-innovation strategy adopt...
Es común que las empresas de países emergentes enfrenten barreras y elevados costos para invertir en tecnología que les permita alcanzar la frontera del conocimiento, desarrollar ventajas competitivas y lograr liderazgos en el mercado. Para adquirir tecnología de punta, las empresas pueden optar por una licencia tecnológica o bien, establecer una a...
Traditional or local knowledge is a sort of knowledge inherited from oral tradition within many indigenous communities worldwide. Appropriate technology emerges as an alternative to bring closer all the benefits of technological progress within the sustainable development framework. A case study of an indigenous community in Mexico -benefited from...
Traditional or local knowledge is a sort of knowledge inherited from oral tradition within many indigenous communities worldwide. Appropriate technology emerges as an alternative to bring closer all the benefits of technological progress within the sustainable development framework. A case study of an indigenous community in Mexico benefited from...
In the recent years, it has been the focus of attention of different actors the premise that technology can represent a sustainable solution for environmental problems. Different actors have contributed with many different analysis, tools and scopes. Some of them have been orientated to the analysis of the organization while some others to understa...
Este documento presenta una visión general del tema de la ecoinnovación, analiza el caso de una pyme mexicana en el sector químico y presenta una herramienta original para evaluar la gestión estratégica de tecnología, innovación y medio ambiente a nivel de empresa.
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This document presents an overview of the topic of eco-innovation, it analyses th...
