Emerging Markets – Eco-innovation practices and business opportunities for European SMEs in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America and Africa

The report explores the role of European SMEs in promoting a green economy. It analyses the challenges and opportunities for European eco-innovators that exist within the emerging markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The growing markets in these developing economies, along with the increasing recognition of the sustainability and environmental agendas have created, and also increased, demand for eco-innovations and eco-industrial technology and services. Through international collaboration, European eco-innovators can increase their competitive market advantages while simultaneously assist those countries in economic and technological leapfrogging and give added environmental value to the development process.