Sustainable Innovation across Key Sectors and Societal Challenge 5: Insights from and for Poland

The European Union (EU) targets growth based on smart, sustainable and inclusive economies, which can be promoted through profound changes in the European economic sectors largely spurred by the increasing importance and penetration of ICT throughout the European societies. Opportunities for industrial sectors to renew themselves are largely provided by sustainable innovations. This policy brief looks at the sectoral relevance of the SI initiatives collected in the CASIPEDIA against the challenges of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials. The policy brief discusses how key policy developments at the national level are related to SI and connects the sectoral analysis on SC5 with policy developments at the national level. There isn’t any cross-sector strategy that could be acknowledged as document representing coherent sustainable policy of the Polish government. Remarks about sustainable growth are scattered among several brief documents, which describe sustainability from a different perspective and with different emphasis.