Sustainable Innovation 2010


Creating Breakthroughs: Green growth, Eco-innovation, Entrepreneurship and Jobs
Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences

15th International Conference
8th-9th November 2010
RDM Campus
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Reviewed papers: Programme and Abstracts



Title

Market
transformation and policy

Organisational Dimensions and New Business Models

Sustainable Product Development, Eco-innovation and Technologies

Education, Training, Skills and Methodologies

Case Studies

Chair Tomoo Machiba
Senior Policy Analyst,
Green Growth &
Eco-Innovation, OECD
Luca Berchicci
Assistant Professor,
Rotterdam School University
Severin Beucker
Senior Lecturer,
Borderstep Institute
Kerstin Mey
Director, Research and Enterprise, University for the Creative Arts
Professor Gijsbert Korevaar
Programme Director,
Industrial Ecology,
Delft University of Technology

10.15

Combining Supply and Demand Side Instruments to Stimulate Innovation – the Case of the ICT Sector.

Stefan Werland, Florian Raecke, Holger Bär,
Freie Universität, Germany.

Resource Culture: Analysis of Resource Efficiency Innovations and Cultures of Trust - How to Advance Innovation for Sustainable Management in SMEs.

Holger Rohn, Anna Bliesner, Martina Schmitt, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Wuppertal, Germany. Dr. Sebastian Klinke,
University of Bremen, Germany.

Collaboration between Technology Institutes and Industries for Eco-innovation.

Sabina Scarpellini, Antonio Valero, Alfonso Aranda, Eva Llera, Ignacio Zabalza, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Design Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: a Study Focusing on an Educational Program.

Elif Kucuksayrac, Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design, Turkey

Analysing the Eco-Innovation Process in a UK Food Processing Firm.

Per-Anders Langendahl, Matthew Cook, Stephen Potter, The Open University, UK.

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10:45

Training Plans for Green Growth and Jobs.

Eva Ilera, Sabina Scarpellini, Alfonso Aranda, Ignacio Zabalza, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Material Flow Reductions in the Automotive Value Chain: Conflicting and Complementary Incentives.

Dr. Tillmann Blume, Dr. Michael Walther, Universität Kassel, Germany.

Eco-innovation and Technologies 1 Sustainability Hot Spot Analysis: A Streamlined life-cycle Assessment Towards Sustainable Product Innovation.

Brigitte Biermann, Triple Innova, Germany, Katrin Bienge, Justus von Geibler, Christa Liedtke, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany, Michael Kuhdt, Oliver Adria, UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP).

Energy2B – Developing a European Energy-Entrepreneurship Eco-System through Students in Higher Education.

Erik Knol, Densie Fletcher, Qeam Ltd, University of Sheffield, UK.

Greening the White Stuff: Accelarating and Redirecting Environmental Innnovation in Milk Production and Consumption.

Paul Dewick, Chris Foster, University of Manchester, UK.

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11.15

A Review of Neolithic Manufacturing and How Materials and Processes May be Integrated into Contemporary Products.

Lee Hall, Stephen Stanforth, Ceri Thomas, University of Coventry, UK.

Transitionizing Businesses: Towards Sustainable Markets.

Vincent Kneefel, Derk Loorbach, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.

Quantitative Benefits of Sustainable Innovation: Resource Efficiency Potentials of Technologies, Products and Strategies.

Holger Rohn, Michael Lettenmeier, Nico Pastewski, Klaus Wiesen, Trifolium - Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany.

Reflecting on the Electronic Waste: The Case of Panel Radio Design and its Implications for Design Education and Sustainability.

Cagla Dogan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Re-design of Innovation Processes to Favour Sustainable Innovations.

Anke Steinbach, Steinbach Strategien, Germany.

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11:45

Sustainable Approach to Car-society in Japan.

Jun Fujimoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

Strategies for Sustainable Innovation in Emerging Technologies: the Cases of Nanotextiles and Smart Textiles.

Claudia Som and Andreas R. Köhler, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland.

Multi-Level Innovation for Sustainable Product Development: The Case Study of an Electronic Product for Earthmoving Equipment.

Jeffrey J.Vickers and Dr. Carol A. Boyle, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Transitions towards Sustainable Innovations: Linking Resource Efficiency and New Technologies.

Justus von Geibler and Klaus Wiesen, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany.
Holger Rohn, Trifolium – Beratungsgesellschaft, Germany.

Green Growth: Radical Systemic Change Towards a More Resilient Future.

Jade Smith, University of Leeds, UK.
Lizzie Harrison
, Re-made, UK.

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12.15

Social Innovation for Green Jobs and Zero Waste: How Community Enterprise in Reuse and Remanufacturing is Shaping the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy.

Stephen Edwards, Eco Design Consultant, Eco Interiors, UK.

Sustainability and the Role of Innovation: a Shipowner’s View.

Jules Verlinden, Innovation Engineer Peter Kortekaas, General Manager, SMIT Engineering, The Netherlands.

Post-use Design Thinking for Sustainability: A Research on an Educational Project in Industrial Design.

Aykut Coskun and Cagla Dogan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

OsCarbon: Open Source Software Tools for Calculating the Environmental Footprint of Organisations.

Thierry Picquet, OsCarbon SAS, France.

Integrating Sustainable Product Design into a Design Practice.

Dr. Deborah Andrews, London South Bank University, UK.
Luke Robbins, KTP Associate, UK.

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12:45

Sustainable Fashion by Design.

Kimberly Guthrie,
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.

External Environmental Costs in Strategic Management.

Volrad Wollny, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Integral Design: Creating Breakthroughs for Sustainable Innovation in the Building Industry.

Wim Zeiler, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Revisiting Sustainable Design Strategies.

Bernhard Dusch, Nathan Crilly and James Moultrie, University of Cambridge, UK.

An Innovative Concept to Increase the Innovative Ability of Enterprises at the European Level: Qualification and Consulting Concept for Sustainable Managment.

Anna Bliesner, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany.
Holger Rohn, Trifolium – Beratungsgesellschaft, Germany.

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Rotterdam Climate Initiative

Gold sponsor:
Port Of Rotterdam

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