International dataset on eco-innovation parks

This dataset presents information on 168 European and non-European eco-innovation parks, defined as eco-industrial park or eco-innovative areas combining residential and industrial activities.

Each eco-innovation park is characterized according to 78 attributes with general information (e.g. type of park, size of park), a set of eco-criterion (e.g. waste management, material flow, renewable energy), a set of success factors (e.g. financial incentives, cooperation with science and technology institutions) and information sources (i.e peer-reviewed papers or reports and online materials).

The environmental activities of the park are defined by 12 eco-criteria, 8 of which having sub-eco-criteria to precise the action undertaken (e.g. eco-criterion water management with sub-eco-criterion wastewater treatment). Similarly, a set of 8 predefined success factors is used as potential parameters for the identification of successful development and operation of eco-innovation parks. A full description of the attributes is provided on the worksheet “metadata”. The worksheet “data” contains the information on the 168 eco-innovation parks.

For this desktop research, efforts were made to collect the data rigorously. Uncertainty may however remain regarding the reported information (no guarantee for complete and accurate information). Part of the data made here available were described in the report "international survey on eco-innovation parks" available under: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1164587