Multicriteria analysis for the assessment of energy innovations in the transport sector

S. Scarpellini, A. Valero, E. Llera and A. Aranda

Energy, 2013, vol. 57, issue C, 160-168

Abstract: In the current context of environmental and global challenges, eco-innovation has become one of the European Union's priorities. A proper measurement system is a need for the promotion, long-term decision making and progress assessment of eco-innovative activities. Public and private sectors have to refocus their activities in order to pursue maximum profits, not only economic but social and environmental. Conventional indicators and metrics for innovation measurement are not suitable because they do not take into account these three dimensions of the sustainability in a balanced analysis. After identifying the minimum requirements of a method for measuring eco-innovation, a simplified multicriteria analysis based on saving-investment curves is proposed and applied to the transport sector. This approach is suitable to determine how actions should be prioritized providing the basis for further assessments.

Keywords: Eco-innovation; Energy efficiency; Metrics; Sustainable transport; Indicators; S/I curves (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.12.004

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