Integrating stakeholders in eco-innovation

The notion of stakeholder is fundamental to eco-innovation, as it is associated with partners in the value chain, but also with organizations outside the company (such as professional networks or NGOs). To rapidly bring eco-innovative concepts to fruition, the indirect view consists in taking into account points of view outside the company, via stakeholder networks.

In this fact sheet, you'll find the keys to working in a multidisciplinary group on the notion of stakeholder networks at different key moments upstream of an eco-innovation process (otherwise known as the Front End of Eco-Innovation, or FEEI).

The FEEI has three main questioning stages that structure the form:

• how to identify eco-innovation opportunities based on stakeholder mapping?

• how to generate eco-innovative ideas from a selection of stakeholders?

• how to evaluate and select the most promising ideas?