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Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit
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Product-Service Innovation workshop and panel session at 2011 World Student Environmental Summit

[2011-05-20] From May 17-22 the World Student Environmental Summit took place at BTH in Karlskrona. WSES: “The World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) is a student-run convention on fundamental contemporary sustainability issues. It provides a platform for students all over the world to gather together to ask meaningful questions and create solutions towards alternative futures. Top-class personalities from science, humanities and...

  • May 21, 2011
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Towards sustainability-driven innovation through product-service systems

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems. Abstract Many current sustainability considerations in industry constrain design space by emphasizing reduced material and energy flows across product life cycles. However, there are also opportunities for sustainability awareness to extend design space and drive innovation. Product-service systems (PSS) in particular can be a...

  • May 6, 2011
Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives
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Assessing the value of sub-system technologies including life-cycle alternatives

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Glocalized solutions for sustainability in manufacturing. Abstract Emerging from an industrial case study in the aerospace industry, the paper proposes an approach to evaluate sub-system technology concepts from a life cycle perspective.  The approach is composed by 5 main phases that aims to drive product designers...

  • May 4, 2011
Design of user-centred wireless sensor technology in sports – an empirical study of elite kayak athletes
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Design of user-centred wireless sensor technology in sports – an empirical study of elite kayak athletes

Research paper published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD’11. Abstract University research is demanded to be more need-driven and user- centred in order to address and solve problems and needs of the market. In the present study a group of athletes and coaches has been analysed on their lead user characteristics. Some of the...

  • January 12, 2011