Speakers
Maj Munch Andersen
Department of Management, Technical University of Denmark,
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Nanotechnologies for Climate Friendly Construction-
opportunities and challenges in the Knowledge Economy
Maj Munch Andersen is a senior scientist at the Department of Management, Technical University of Denmark. She specialises in innovation research at the firm, interfirm and innovation system level as well as policy and indicator analysis. Empirically, she focuses mainly on eco-innovation analysis within nanotechnology and construction.
She wrote the first Danish Ph.D. in eco-innovation in 1999, which was also one of the first Ph.D.s in this field in the world. She has previously worked for seven years as innovation researcher at the Copenhagen Business School as well as four years with innovation policy within the Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. She was among other things in charge of developing a green industrial development strategy. Her strategy work together with René Kemp fed into the EU informal council meeting on eco-innovation in 2004, which set eco-innovation high on the political agenda in the EU.
Maj Munch Andersen has experience from many international projects on eco-innovation. She has done significant work on indicators of eco-innovation and been leading actor in European pilot projects on the issue. She was project leader on the project 'Eco-innovation indicators' carried out for the European Environment Agency. Maj Munch Andersen is a member of the think tank of the Nordic Innovation Centre on "Nordic Environmental Technology" as well as the Eco-innovation Expert Panel connected to the Vinnova project of DG Enterprise. Since 1995 she has been an active participant in the DRUID innovation research network and is organising a session on eco-innovation for the 2009 DRUID conference.
Within nanotechnology she has been project leader of the Danish Green Nanotechnology Foresight in 2005, and leader of the "NanoByg" project in 2006, looking into Danish nanotech opportunities in construction. She is currently leader of the ongoing innovation research project “Green Nanotechnology in Nordic Construction” (GNNC). In 2005 she co-organized the conference: "Technologies of tomorrow: Environmental opportunities and challenges from Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and ICT" for the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen. In 2007 she organized the workshop "NanoByg" at Risoe National Laboratory, Roskilde, highlighting Danish nano-construction opportunities. In 2008 she organized a one-day session on green nano-construction at the NanoTech Northern Conference (NTNE), Copenhagen.
Relevant recent publications:
- Kemp, R and Andersen, M. M. (2004), Strategies for eco-efficiency innovation, Strategy paper for the EU Informal Environmental Council Meeting, July 16-18 2004 Maastricht, VROM, Den Haag.
- Andersen, M.M. and B. Rasmussen (2006) Nanotechnology development – environmental opportunities and risks. Risø-R report, Roskilde.
- Andersen, M.M. (2007), Developing Eco-innovation Indicators, Report for the EEA, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen.
- Andersen M.M. and Molin M. (2007), NanoByg: A survey of nanoinnovation in Danish construction, Report number Risoe-R-1234(EN), Risø National laboratory, Roskilde/Denmark, http://www.risoe.dk/rispubl/reports/ris-r-1602.pdf
- Andersen M.M. (2008), Review: System transition processes for realising Sustainable Consumption and Production, in Tucker A et al., System Innovation for Sustainability 1, Green Leaf Publishing, Sheffield, 320-344.
- Andersen M.M. and Foxon T. (2009) Greening the Innovation System – aligning policies for climate change and innovation, paper for the DRUID conference, Copenhagen, June 18-20 2009.
- Andersen, M.M. and M.R. Geiker (2009) Nanotechnologies for Climate Friendly Construction – key issues and challenges. Paper for the NICOM3 conference, Prague, Maj 30-June 2, 2009.
- Geiker, M.R. and M.M. Andersen, (forthcoming 2009) Nanotechnologies for sustainable construction, in Khatib, J. (ed) Sustainability of Construction Materials, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, (forthcoming).