Eco-design : strategies for dissemination to SMEs - Part I: overall analysis and conclusions. / Arnold Tukker, Gerald J. Ellen and Peter Eder.
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Prepared for the European Commission - JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Seville.
PUBLISHER'S ABSTRACT: "This synthesis report develops how eco-design in SMEs can be stimulated in the Community and it identifies best practises, bottlenecks and conditions for giving support. It analyses why SMEs apply eco-design to a lower extent than large firms, which support instruments and infrastructures are in place in the Member States in the field of integrated environmental protection and which role they can play for eco-design dissemination. The study concludes that the most effective measure is to strengthen a market environment that rewards environmentally sound products through a mix of instruments. For SMEs this would be especially effective if complemented by a dedicated initiative that (1) improves the visibility of current and future market opportunities; (2) transfers best practice of eco-design dissemination; (3) supplies technical eco-design information; and (4) includes a standing feed-back mechanism."