ECO-INNOVATION IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBALIZATION EFFORTS

Realisation of eco-innovation is a response to a human behaviour after the Industrial Revolution, when it began to regard natural resources as an unlimited way of realizing their own plans and business opportunities. Often a ruthless approach without environmentally friendly production and production process led to depletion of natural resources and devastation of the natural environment. This is currently reflected on its overall situation and we see the great efforts of states and individual policies to mitigate the situation. The implementation of eco-innovation is subject to national regional policies of the individual states. Over all these we can see organizations, eco-innovation policies of larger clusters such as the EU, various intergovernmental agreements or treaties that govern individual state policies. Eco-innovation efficiency is an important indicator of the national eco-innovation effort and its determination is important in the comparison of states. It also serves as a tool for efforts in increasing eco-innovation and reducing the environmental impacts of the industry, which may be more or less the result of globalization. The measurement of eco-innovations is carried out by establishing different indicators of eco-innovation efficiency. The individual metrics then compare the results of individual countries. The contribution deals with different eco-efficiency measurement metrics and their impact on the following eco-innovation performance of other countries. It draws conclusions of the impact of globalization efforts on realizing eco-innovation and mitigating the consequences of non-ecological behaviour and attitude over the last decades.