Content -- 1. Innovation and Sustainable Development: Introduction -- Innovation and Sustainable Development - Lessons for Innovation Policies? Introduction and Overview -- Can a Market Economy Produce Industrial Innovations that Lead to Environmental Sustain ability? -- 2. Guiding Principles for Sustainable Industrial Innovations -- Industrial Innovation Strategies - Towards an Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Economy -- The Firm's Perspective of Industrial Innovation Strategies Towards an Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Economy -- Business Strategies for a Sustainable Society -- Services Instead of Products: Experiences from Energy Markets - Examples from Sweden -- 3. Policy Issues: Requirements and Consequences -- The Policy Concept Behind the Dutch National Environmental Policy Plans -- The Role of RTD Policy and the Adequate Policy Mix - Comprehensive Policy Approaches and Problems of Implementation -- 4. Annex -- Research and Technology Policies and Sustainable Development - the Situation in the USA, Japan, Sweden and The Netherlands -- The Authors.

This book is the result of a workshop of the "Six-Countries-Programme" - the international network of political decision makers, scientists, industrialists and practitioners in innovation. It gathers papers from experts for sustainbale development and those for innovation and innovation policy to bridge the gap between these two communities and to develop mutual understanding. It shows the still very open character of the discussion about the links between innovation and sustainable development and also displays the gaps, deficiencies and necessities for completion not only in scientific analysis but also in political actions. Yet it makes clear how the concept of sustainable development can serve as guiding principle for future innovation policies and that it also offers business opportunities.