Klaus Fichter is lead guest editor of a Special Issue published by the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Radical system innovations are slow to transform markets. Borderstep investigated how such processes can be accelerated by an activating state.
The Bitkom Building Survey analyzes how digital technologies - e.g. building automation - can contribute to reducing emissions in the building sector.
More than 50 partners were working together on the northeast German model region for smart energy, as part of the collaborative WindNODE project.
In the EU-EcoCloud project, the energy consumption and energy efficiency potentials of cloud computing services in the EU were determined.
The project, which was funded by the BMBF under the research priority "Economics of Climate Change", aimed to determine whether digitisation will lead to more or less climate protection overall.
The ArKol research project was developing novel thermal solar collectors for use in building facades. Borderstep supported the project consortium on behalf of Fraunhofer ISE.
More support for green start-ups: This is what Green Start-Up Investment Alliance aimed to achieve. The hands-on project searched for ways to promote environmental and climate protection.
The project aimed to develop an overall political concept for social change processes towards a Green Economy. Success factors for transformation processes were derived from case studies.
Borderstep has compiled data and facts on the data centre industry, its economic importance and its sustainability potential for eco e. V..
The TEMPRO project developed solutions to significantly reduce data center energy consumption. It focused on a holistic approach to energy management.
StartGreen@School strengthened a sustainable start-up culture at schools nationwide for the first time. All participants learned what sustainable business means.
Increasing digitization is leading to ever greater networking of products and plants. Borderstep has investigated the effects on energy and resource requirements.
ProSHAPE developed a control approach and business models that enable decentralized energy management in quarters.
The main goal of SHIFT was to enable relevant actors and intermediaries to support sustainable entrepreneurship more effectively.
The short study provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on direct and indirect effects of digitisation on climate protection.
With the support of artificial intelligence, it should be possible in future to plan and operate data centres in the Frankfurt area in such a way that negative effects on the environment are reduced.
The project developed an evaluation model with which the economic, ecological and social impact of startup support programmes can be recorded, assessed and improved.
The project analysed the structural change in the automotive industry triggered by globalisation, digitalisation and climate protection.
Radical system innovations only slowly lead to the transformation of markets. The project investigated how such processes can be accelerated by an activating state.
The overall objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate an energy-efficient, standardised data center with liquid-cooled servers in which the waste heat is converted into cold.
The Sustainability4All project has encouraged the early and lasting integration of climate protection and other sustainability concerns into newly founded, innovative companies.
S4S tested the development of innovative solutions to business sustainability challenges through new forms of collaboration between students and companies.
In order to achieve ambitious environmental goals, an additional push of environmental innovations is needed. The aim was to develop strategies for promoting environmental innovations.
