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Introduction
The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) define sustainable innovation as:
Sustainable innovation is a process where sustainability considerations (environmental, social and financial) are integrated into company systems from idea generation through to research and development (R&D) and commercialisation. This applies to products, services and technologies,
as well as new business and organisation models (Charter, 2007)
Sustainable innovation is a new and evolving area and also relates to eco-innovation (see www.cfsd.org.uk/eco-i-net)
Sustainable Innovation conference proceedings (2005-2014)
Activities
Research
In 2006-7 with support from the South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA), CfSD was awarded a project entitled 'Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Innovation & Design' (see www.cfsd.org.uk/coe-sid). This produced a range of high quality outputs including five research reports and eight events
Conferences
CfSD is in the 20th year of the international 'Sustainable Innovation' conference series - see Sustainable Innovation 2015. Details of previous conferences can be downloaded from the box at the top left of this site
Workshops
CfSD have organised a number of workshops focused on sustainable innovation (see http://www.cfsd.org.uk/Sustainable%20Innovation/index.html )
Network
CfSD organise ad hoc meetings focused on issues related to 'business, innovation and sustainability'
Reports
CfSD have compiled a summary of the key conclusions from the 'Sustainable Innovation' conferences from 2003-2006 (click here for Sustainable Innovation report). In addition, the report is supported by a summary of all papers presented at these conferences (see www.cfsd.org.uk/si03_si06)
For more information
Contact mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk
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