Section: New Results

Green-IT Innovation Analysis

Participant : Laurent Lefevre.

Green IT has recently appeared as a mandatory approach to take into account of energy efficiency in Information Technology. This research investigates the Green IT area and its opportunities for innovation. Main motivations for Green IT have been analyzed and we have proposed new definition of Green IT including social, environmental and economic concerns. We have proposed a new model of a virtuous circle that appears in Green IT: while Green IT has its own motivations, resulting research feeds other research field in a virtuous circle. Innovation in this particular sector paves the way for further innovation by means of original research not foreseen at first thoughts.

This analysis is joint work with IRIT (Toulouse - C. Herozog, J.-M. Pierson) [19] .