This page contains information about the cycLED project (especially its WP8). This European FP7 project aims to optimise the flows of resources across all the life cycle phases of LED products (DG Research, January 2012 – June 2015, 4.1 M€). Dr. Cédric Gossart was the principal investigator of the Work Package n°8 (« Analysing barriers to eco-innovation », 251 k€).
Documents available for download:
- Deliverable n°8.1: cycLED_D8.1_Regulatory barriers to eco-innovation.
- Deliverable n°8.2: cycLED_D8.2_Barriers to LED ecodesign.
- Deliverable n°8.3: cycLED_D8.3_Solutions to barriers to eco-innovation in the LED sector.
- Deliverable n°8.4: cycLED_D8.4_Policy Brief.
- Self-assessment tool for LED firms to identify their barriers to eco-innovation (available in six languages):
- Research articles and presentations in English:
- Are Litigated Patents More Valuable? The Case of Light Emitting Diodes. With A. Özaygen and M. Özman, SSRN Working Papers, 25/11/2016, https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875824. Updated version forthcoming in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy.
- Barriers to Eco-Innovation in the LED Sector: A Multilevel Perspective. With A. Özaygen, SSRN Working Papers, 25/11/2016, https://ssrn.com/abstract=2875847.
- Lighting transition: Overcoming barriers to eco-innovation in the LED sector. 7th IST conference, Wuppertal, 8 September 2016. slides-ist2016. draft_paper-ist2016.
- The social aspects of ecological transitions: The case of lighting. Innovation Forum VII, Session 14, Paris, 10 June 2016. Slides-Gossart – Session 14.
- Planetary Boundaries and innovation: What role for ICT in defining a safe operating space for humanity? Innovation Forum VII, Session 17, Paris, 10 June 20160. Slides-Gossart – Session 17. DRAFT-Paper.
- Patent Litigations as a Barrier to Innovation: The Case of LEDs. Poster presented in the 13th Globelics International Conference, 23-25 September 2015, Havana, Cuba. Poster-Globelics.
- Lighting and climate change: Contributions from the LED sector. International conference « Our common future », UNESCO, Paris. Slides-CFCC15.
- Patent Litigations as a Barrier to Innovation: The Case of Light Emitting Diodes. Guest speaker (with A. Özaygen) in the MOTI seminar, Grenoble Business School. Slides-GEM. Paper-GEM.
- Lighting up transition in the LED sector: How to overcome eco-innovation barriers at the niche level? 5th IST conference, Utrecht. Slides_STRN; Gossart-paper_STRN.
- Eco-innovation dynamics in the LED sector. 15th ISS conference, Jena. Slides_ISS; Gossart_ISS_paper.
- Analysing barriers to eco-innovation: The case of the LED sector. The Governance of a Complex World conference, Turin. Slides-GCW.
- Popularisation articles in French:
- Policy Workshop « LED eco-innovation and diffusion: What can policy makers do? » (see below).
Date: Thursday 19 May 2015 (11h00-13h00), prior to the Smart Lighting conference, to the Metropolitan Solutions conference, and to the final conference of the European project cycLED.
Objective: Provide solutions to policy makers and town planners seeking to support LED eco-innovation and the diffusion of ecodesigned LED technologies.
Participants: Policy makers, town planners, and other ecoinnovation and policy experts (government, municipalities, industry associations, …). Free of charge by invitation only (for contact details, see the programme).
Location: Meliá Hotel (central Berlin: Friedrichstraße 103), Berlin 10117, Germany.
Distant access (VoIP): The number of distant participants is limited to 25 (we will be online at 10h45). Distant participation enables listening to the presentations, seeing the slides in real time, and asking questions with the chat function. In order to connect to the meeting room, click here (detailed information on Distant access).
Background information: cycLED_D8.4_Policy brief-Feb-2016 (a summary article is available in French here).
Workshop output: Questions of participants will be answered during the workshop, and voiced to EU policy makers by means of an updated version of the policy brief, to be published by the European Commission’s project cycLED. Live twits will be posted from https://twitter.com/cycLEDeer.
Agenda: 
Download a pdf version of this programme; download the presentation of the policy brief and the audio recording of its presentation by Dr. Gossart (15′ long): audio policy brief.
Browse the website of our guest speaker Dr. Schulte-Roemer; download her presentation: Lighting cities and the audio recording of her speech (starts at minute 7): audio Nona Schulte-Römer.