Les problèmes et solutions pour accéder aux innovations environnementales au sein d'entreprises et de collectivités

This article examines the obstacles and solutions which both private and public organizations confront in order to either have access to innovations resulting from environmental protection efforts, or to implement sustainability policies. This idea of "sustainable development ", which itself represents a major innovation for the beginnning of the 21st century in the environmental management domain, results from a variety of pressures which have been building up during the whole second half of the 20th century. This article posits that this concept of "sustainability "will probably allow the removal of resistances regarding recent innovations within the environmental technology domain, especially for small and medium enterprises. In other words, it does not suffice to examine problems and find solutions : one must also make them known, communicate them, and reach consensus in order to set up long-term policies that will implement these solutions sustainably. Indeed, the problem of innovation has always been its dissemination ? both inside and outside an organization (since the present perspective is that of environmental approaches). The solution that the author and his colleagues put forward is that of an on-going