Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies at Low Readiness: A Technical Note on Scaling Assumptions

Authors

  • Bogumila Idzikowski Department of Sustainability Assessment, Podkarpacie Centre for Emerging Materials, Rzeszow, Poland Author
  • Dympna Finucane Department of Innovation Management, Barrow Valley Centre for Emerging Materials, Athy, Ireland Author
  • Katarina-D Jovanic Department of Process Engineering, Kolubara Institute of Advanced Technology, Valjevo, Serbia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22673166

Keywords:

Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies at Low Readiness; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies at Low Readiness has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to
something a wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept
pace. We pull together the current evidence for life cycle assessment of emerging technologies at low readiness, covering the
methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers
and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the
evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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