Environmental Technologies and Eco-innovation in the Czech ...

Introduction
Using environmental technologies and supporting eco-innovation have been
the centre of attention all over the world. The European Commission considers this
sphere crucial for the future economic development of the EU. Therefore, a number
of programmes have been implemented both at the European and national levels to
support environmental technologies that are focused on the widest range of ecoinnovation
and environmental technologies so that they can be applied in all industrial
branches. The main objective of this publication is to introduce the issue and map the
current state of environmentally friendly technologies in the Czech Republic.
The publication’s orientation is based on the definitions of the terms “ecoinnovation”
and “environmental technology”. These set the general framework for
the entire publication. The division of the publication based on industrial sections is
supposed to primarily cover branches where a high potential of eco-innovation and the
use of environmentally friendly technologies can be expected in the Czech Republic.
Selected branches are described rather generally, while in other cases information is
focused on specific technologies, providing a clear picture of the application of specific
environmental technologies in practice. This publication primarily provides initial
information in order to arouse interest in environmentally friendly technologies in the
general and the professional public without striving to exhaustively describe all the
specifics of environmental technologies and eco-innovations in a given sector.
Releasing this publication during the Czech Republic’s EU presidency can be used
as a method of presenting eco-innovation and environmental technologies not only
through research and development and actual production processes, but also by
providing examples of the practical application of certain technologies.
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