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Innovating nature-based solutions: learnings from the EU Horizon 2020 RECONECT project
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.9663
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2024-06-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-DOI
Journal
Volume
6
Issue
1
Start Page
114
End Page
130
Citation
Blue-Green Systems 6 (1): 114-130 (2024)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
IWA Publishing
This paper proposes a specialised framework that integrates the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and the Commercial Readiness Index (CRI) to assess learnings from a Horizon 2020 (H2020) project on innovation development via the selection and enhancement of supporting tools and technologies for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) implementation and evaluation. We developed and applied the methodology to scout NbS-related innovations that are at a certain TRL and had the potential for commercial exploitation, and then included tailored activities to help these solutions to reach at least CRI-1 (i.e. have the business model outlined, initial market research done, business case formulated). The tools and technologies were assessed through a lens of innovation, explication, and upscaling. As a result, novel guidelines tailored for NbS innovations were established to introduce a participatory approach in TRL and CRI evaluations to support commercial exploitation for upscaling NbS into mainstream society through market uptake of H2020 frameworks.
Subjects
commercial exploitation
Commercial Readiness Index
Horizon 2020
Nature-based Solutions
Technology Readiness Levels
DDC Class
333.7: Natural Resources, Energy and Environment
600: Technology
658: General Managament
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