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Life Cycle Thinking and Integrated Product Deliveries in renovation projects:

Extending the concept of Integrated Product Deliveries with Product Service Systems Schipull Kauschen, Jan

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Schipull Kauschen, J. (2012). Life Cycle Thinking and Integrated Product Deliveries in renovation projects:

Extending the concept of Integrated Product Deliveries with Product Service Systems. Paper presented at Sustainable Innovation 2012, Bonn, Germany. http://cfsd.org.uk/events/sustainable-innovation-2012/

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Ramon Arratia

Sustainability Director, InterfaceFlor Europe, UK Jack de Bokx

Senior Director, Worldwide Environment, Health

& Safety, Johnson & Johnson, UK Martin Charter

Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design®, University for the Creative Arts, UK

Garrette Clark

Programme Officer – Business & Industry, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), France Trevor Davis

Futurist, IBM, UK Bas De Leeuw

Managing Director, World Resources Forum, Switzerland

Bernd Draser

Lecturer – Philosophy & Cultural Studies, ecosign and Akademie für Gestaltung, Germany Lorenz Erdmann

Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer ISI – Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany Søren Femmer Jensen

Director, Co-Creative, Denmark Klaus Fichter

Innovation and Sustainability Management, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany Constantin Herrmann

Principal Consultant, PE international, Germany Sascha Hermann

Director, VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH, Germany

Wouter Kersten

Manager, Research and Innovation, Enviu, Netherlands

Michael Kuhndt Director, CSCP, Germany Harry Lehmann

General Director, Division – Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany

Michael Lettenmeier

Consultant, Wuppertal Institute for Climate Environment and Energy, Germany Christian Löwe

Senior Researcher, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany

Kerstin Mey

Director, Research & Enterprise, University for the Creative Arts, UK

Nick Morley

Director, Oakdene Hollins, UK Frank O'Connor

Director, Ecodesign Centre, Wales Jamie O’Hare

Senior Consultant, Granta Design, UK Jacquie Ottman

Founder & CEO, J Ottman Consulting, US Fabiana Scapolo

Team Leader, Foresight and Horizon Scanning, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium

Ole Schilling

Creative Lead, Product Design, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany

Stefan Siedel

Deputy Head, PUMA Safe Global, PUMA, Germany Maarten Ten Houten

Sustainability Manager, Global Commerce, Heineken, Netherlands

Chris Thorpe

Director, IDeA Limited, UK Ursula Tischner

Program Coordinator – Design for Sustainability, Savannah College of Art and Design, US Luca Venerando Giuffrida

Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Belgium

Justus von Geibler

Project Coordinator, Wuppertal Institute, Germany Kresse Wesling

Co-founder & Director, Elvis & Kresse, UK Strategic partner

CSCP

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Sustainable Innovation 2012 Resource Efficiency, Innovation and Lifestyles

Towards Sustainable Product Design: 17th International Conference 29 & 30 October 2012

Alanus University, Bonn, Germany

Biographies

Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director, InterfaceFlor Europe, UK ... 7 

Carolin Baedeker, Co-Director of Research Group Sustainable Production and Consumption, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany ... 7 

Yekta Bakırlıoglu, Research Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Turkey ... 7 

C.A. Bakker, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, The Netherlands ... 7 

Andrea Bandoni, Conceptual Designer and Design Consultant, Brazil ... 8 

Frank Becker, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany, Karin Zacharias Langhans, Germany ... 8 

Dr. Simon Berner, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany ... 8 

Tanja Bisgaard, Founder, Novitas Innovation, Denmark ... 9 

Markus Bjerre, Head of Section, Danish Ministry of Business and Growth, Denmark ... 9 

Jack de Bokx, Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson, UK ... 9 

Cecilia Bratt, PhD Student, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden ... 9 

J.C. Brezet (Han) Dr. Ir., Professor, TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering, Design for Sustainability, The Netherlands ... 9 

Göran Broman, Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden ... 10 

Doris Zwicker Bucci, Professor Dr., Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Brazil ... 10 

Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts, UK ... 10 

Garrette Clark, Programme Officer, Business and Industry Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, France ... 11 

Richard Coles, Associate Lecturer, The Open University, Designing for a Sustainable Future, UK ... 11 

Matteo Conti, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK . 11  Nele D’Haese , Researcher, VITO, Belgium ... 12 

Trevor Davis, Futurist, IBM, UK ... 12 

Wim Debacker, Researcher, VITO, Belgium ... 12 

Johannes Dietrich, Technische Universität Berlin, Science Shop Kubus, Germany ... 12 

Cagla Dogan, Assistant Professor, Department Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 13  Bernd Draser, Lecturer, ecosign/Akademie fűr Gestlatung, Germany ... 13 

Stuart English, Programme Leader, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK ... 13 

Lorenz Erdmann, Research Associate and Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany ... 13 

Fatemeh Eskandarypur, Responsible Textile Specialist, Textiles for life, UK ... 14 

Professor Klaus Fichter, University of Oldenburg, Germany ... 14 

Fernando Antônio Forcellini, Professor Dr., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Campus Universitário Trindade, Brazil ... 14 

César Levy França, PhD Student, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden ... 15 

Dr. Justus von Geibler, Project Co-ordinator, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany ... 15 

Luca Venerando Giuffrida, Seconded National Expert to Unit E.4 LIFE Environment & Eco-innovation, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Belgium... 15 

Professor Dr. Viktor Grinewitschus, Professor for Building Services, Hochschule Ruhr West, University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Energy Systems and Energy Business, Germany ... 16 

Sophie Hallstedt, PhD and Head of Department, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden ... 16 

Marco Hasselkuß, Junior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany 16  Kristian Henriksen, Special Advisor, Danish Ministry of Business and Growth, Denmark ... 17 

Sascha Hermann, Director, VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH, Germany ... 17 

Dr Constantin Herrmann, Principal Consultant, PE International, Germany ... 17 

Dr. Kevin Hilton, PGR Programmes Leader, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria

University, UK ... 17 

M.C. den Hollander, Senior Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, The Netherlands ... 18 

Maarten Ten Houten, Sustainability Manager, Global Commerce, Heineken, The Netherlands ... 18 

Søren Femmer Jensen, Director, Co-Creative, Denmark ... 18 

Nino David Jordan, Junior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany ... 19 

Jan Schipull Kauschen, PhD-student, Architect MAA, Dipl.-Ing. Arch. (TU), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Centre for Industrialised Architecture (CINARK) and JJW Arkitekter, Denmark 19  Wouter Kersten, Manager Research and Innovation, Netherlands ... 19 

Manfred Krautter, Director, EcoAid, Germany ... 19 

Markus Kretschmer, Professor of Product Design and Design Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Austria ... 20 

Malin Kronqvist, Project Manager, Sustainable Solutions Innventia AB, Sweden ... 20 

Michael Kuhndt, Head UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany ... 20 

Rebecka Lannsjö, MSc, Industrial Design Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ... 21 

Bas de Leeuw, Managing Director, World Resources Forum (WRF), Switzerland ... 21 

Dr Harry Lehmann, General Director, Division – Environmental Planning & Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany ... 21 

Kristin Leismann, Project Co-ordinator, Faktor 10, Institut Für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften Gemeinnützige GmbH, Germany ... 21 

Michael Lettenmeier, Consultant, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany ... 22 

Marinella Levi, Full Professor, Materials Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy ... 22 

Dr. Christa Liedtke, Director of Research Group “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany ... 22 

Marcus Linder, PhD student, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ... 22 

Christian Loewe, Senior Expert, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany ... 23 

Cathrine Löfgren, Project Manager – Sustainable Solutions, Innventia AB, Sweden ... 23 

Victor Martinez, Postgraduate Researcher, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK ... 23 

Ângela Maria Marx, PhD student, Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ... 23 

Dr Patrick McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield University, Manufacturing and Materials Department, UK 23  Professor Kerstin Mey, Director, Department for Research and Enterprise, University for the Creative Arts, UK ... 24 

Massimo Micocci, Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy ... 24 

Martino Milardi, Researcher, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy ... 24 

Nicholas Morley, Director, Oakdene Hollins, UK ... 25 

Emer O’Connell, Communications Manager, European Pathway to Zero Waste (EPOW) Project, Environment Agency for England and Wales, UK ... 25 

Dr Frank O’Connor, Director, Ecodesign Centre, Wales ... 26 

Dr Jamie O’Hare, Senior Consultant, Granta Design, UK ... 26 

Isabel Ordoñez, Phd Student, Design for Sustainability, Division Design & Human Factors, Department for Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ... 26 

Francesca Ostuzzi, Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical, Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy ... 26 

Jacquie Ottman, Founder and CEO, J Ottman Consulting, USA ... 27 

Istefani Carísio de Paula, Professor, Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil ... 27 

Ana Carina Pereira, MSc, PhD Researcher, TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering, Design for Sustainability and Forest Research Center, The Netherlands ... 27 

Professor Dr. Helena Pereira, Professor, Forest Research Center, School of Agronomy, Technical University

of Lisbon, Portugal ... 27 

Ulrike Rahe, Division Design & Human Factors, Department for Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ... 27 

Sara Renström, PhD student, Design for Sustainability, Design & Human Factors, Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden... 28 

Karl Henrik Robèrt, Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden... 28 

Valentina Rognoli, Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy ... 28 

Holger Rohn, Director, Faktor 10, Institut Für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften Gemeinnützige GmbH, Germany ... 29 

Giuseppe Salvia, Ph.D. Candidate, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy ... 29 

Dr Fabiana Scapolo, Team Leader, Foresight and Horizon Scanning, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium ... 29 

Ole Schilling, Senior Design Manager, Creative Direction Design, Deutsche Telekom, Germany ... 29 

Kathrin Schnalzer, Research Fellow, Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Nobelstraße, Germany ... 30 

Tobias Schultz, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Practitioner, SCS Global Services, USA ... 30 

Stefan Seidel, Deputy Head, S.A.F.E. (Social Accountability and Fundamental Environmental Standards Department), PUMA, Germany ... 30 

Anneli Selvefors, PhD student, Design for Sustainability, Design & Human Factors, Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden... 30 

Matthias Stabe, Research Fellow, Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Germany ... 30 

Dr. Mark Stalmans, Manager Scientific External Relations, Procter & Gamble, Household Care Business Unit, Brussels Innovation Center (BIC), Belgium ... 31 

Michael Sturges, Senior Researcher, Innventia Edge (Innventia UK Ltd), Sweden ... 31 

Lorena Benathar Ballod Tavares, Professor Dr., Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB)- Departamento de Engenharia Química, Brazil ... 31 

Dr Chris Thorpe, Director, IDeA Limited, UK ... 32 

Professor Ursula Tischner, Director, Design for Sustainability, Savanah College of Art and Design, USA ... 32 

Louise Trygg, Professor, Linköping University, Sweden ... 32 

Anna Viggedal MSc, Industrial Design Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ... 33 

Dr Ir. J.G. Vogtländer, Associate Professor, TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering, Design for Sustainability, The Netherlands ... 33 

Karl Vrancken, Research Coordinator, VITO, Belgium ... 33 

Kresse Wesling, Co-founder and Director, Elvis & Kresse, UK ... 33 

Dr Tim Woolman, Project Coordinator (Sustainable Innovation), The Centre for Sustainable Design, University of Creative Arts, UK ... 34 

Abstracts

Objects Of The Forest: An Experimental Design Expedition In The Amazon Region Considering The Relationship Between Man And Nature And Foreseeing Possibilities Of Innovation - Andrea Bandoni ... 36 

Let’s Start With The Rest! - Frank Becker, Johannes Dietrich, Karin Zacharias Langhans ... 37 

Resources, Innovation & Lifestyles: Global Business Perspective - Jack de Bokx ... 38 

Procurement Processes as Drivers for Sustainable Product-Service Solutions – What a Procurer can do? - Cecilia Bratt, Göran Broman, K.H. Robèrt, Sophie Hallstedt ... 38 

Product – Packaging Development Process: A Proposal Oriented To Sustainability - Doris Zwicker Bucci, Lorena Benathar Ballod Tavares, Fernando Antonio Forcellini ... 39 

The ‘Closed Loop’ and Beyond - Martin Charter ... 39 

Lessons Learnt Supporting SMEs on Eco-Innovation - Martin Charter and Tim Woolman ... 39 

Packaging For A Sustainable Future - Sustainability: The Key Driver of Packaging Eco-Innovation - Richard Coles ... 40 

The Integration Of Cradle-to-Cradle Principles In Building Practices In Flanders: An Assessment Of The

Current Situation - Wim Debacker, Karl Vrancken, Nele D’Haese ... 41 

Responsible Leasing and The Circular Economy: The next Evolution of Responsible Fashion & Textiles Design and Resource Management - Fatemeh Eskandarypur ... 42 

Sustainability Self-Assessment Support - César-Levy França, Göran Broman, Louise Trygg ... 43 

Sustainable Innovations in Living Labs: Exploring the Potential of a German Research Infrastructure for User-Lead Product and Service Innovations - Justus von Geibler, Simon Berner, Lorenz Erdmann, Nino David Jordan, Kristin Leismann, Christa Liedtke, Holger Rohn, Kathrin Schnalzer, Matthias Stabe ... 43 

Eco-innovation Action Plan & Resource Efficiency - Luca Venerando Giuffrida ... 44 

Green Business Model Innovation - Kristian Henriksen, Markus Bjerre, Tanja Bisgaard, Alexandra-Maria Almasi, Emil Damgaard Grann ... 44 

Resource Management and Technological Innovation - Sascha Hermann ... 45 

A Business Model Framework for Product Life Extension - M.C. den Hollander and C.A. Bakker ... 45 

Life Cycle Thinking and Integrated Product Deliveries in Renovation Projects: Extending the Concept of Integrated Product Deliveries to Product Service Systems - Jan Schipull Kauschen ... 45 

A Guiding Tool for the Selection of Fish from Sustainable Fisheries for Food Industry and Retail - Manfred Krautter ... 46 

Design for Sustainable Solutions: The Need for Action beyond Green Design - Dr Markus Kretschmer ... 46 

Resources, Innovation and Lifestyle - Michael Kuhndt ... 47 

Resource Efficient Europe - Dr Harry Lehemann ... 47 

Sustainable LivingLabs – European Research Infrastructure for the User-Integrated Development of Sustainable Product and Service Innovation - Christa Liedtke, Carolin Baedeker and Holger Rohn ... 47 

Offer Characteristics Determining Perceived Usefulness Of Environmental Communication - Marcus Linder 48  Integrating Thermodynamics and Biology for Sustainable Product Lifecycle Design - V Martinez, S English, M Conti, K Hilton ... 49 

The Requirements Management Framework Support Tool For Designing Sustainable Product-Systems - Ângela Maria Marx, Istefani Carísio de Paula ... 49 

Developing An Organization Culture To Facilitate Radical Innovation - Dr Patrick McLaughlin ... 50 

A Role of “Connections” for Sustainable Longer-Lasting Artifacts and Relationship with Users - Massimo Micocci, Giuseppe Salvia, Valentina Rognoli, Francesca Ostuzzi, Marinella Levi ... 51 

For Building Materials with Low Embodied Energy in Their Life-Cycle - Martino Milardi ... 52 

Materials Security, Productivity & New Business Models - Nicholas Morley ... 52 

Waste? Not! Turning Refuse Into Quality Products - Emer O’Connell ... 52 

How Design Relates to Waste: A Categorization of Concrete Examples - Isabel Ordoñez, Professor Ulrike Rahe ... 53 

Investigating The Life-Span Of Cork Products And Appropriate Use Of The Material – Advanced Results Of A Longitudinal Study With Users - Ana Carina Pereira, Han Brezet, Helena Pereira, Joost Vogtländer ... 54 

Standardization of Life Cycle Assessment to Ensure Transparency in Product Labelling - Tobias Schultz .... 54 

The PUMA Environmental Profit & Loss Account – Taken to the Next Level - Stefan Seidel ... 55 

Benefits and Difficulties for Industry when Designing for Sustainable Behaviour - Anneli Selvefors, Sara Renström, Rebecka Lannsjöm, Anna Viggedal, Professor Ulrike Rahe ... 55 

Sustainability at P&G : Sustainable Product Design & Driving Sustainable Consumer Behaviour - Mark Stalmans ... 56 

Is E-Media More Sustainable Than Print? - M Sturges, M Kronqvist, A Teleman, C Löfgren ... 56 

New Business Models - Ursula Tischner ... 57 

Trash to Treasure - Kresse Wesling ... 57 

Biographies

Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director, InterfaceFlor Europe, UK

Ramon Arratia provides direction and leadership for Interface in the area of sustainability across the EMEAI region.

His focus as Sustainability Director is to help the company achieving Mission Zero (InterfaceFLOR’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by 2020), at the same time as helping Interface develop products and services with radically reduced impacts such as the Biosfera collection.

Ramon plays a leading role in Interface’s approach to full transparency, which calls for companies to declare all the environmental impacts and ingredients in all their products through Environment Product Declarations (EPD). A key advocate of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), he is campaigning for the transformative role LCA has not only for companies but for public procurement, government policy, supply chains, customer engagement and eliminating greenwash.

He is also leading Interface’s lobbying efforts to ban the landfill of carpet and flooring waste across the European member states as well as advocating to radically increase Europe’s resource efficiency through close and open loops.

Before joining InterfaceFLOR, Ramon spent five years at the Vodafone Group, where he was responsible for the Group’s Corporate Responsibility communications including the multi-award winning CR Report. He completed an MBA at Warwick Business School in 2008, an MSc in Quality Management in 2000 and a degree in chemistry in 1998, which give him both business and communications expertise as well as in-depth understanding of some of the more technical aspects of sustainability.

Carolin Baedeker, Co-Director of Research Group Sustainable Production and Consumption, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany

Studied Geography at the University of Cologne. From 1998-2000 was a freelancer and since 2000 research fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Since 2006 she has been Co-Director of the research group “Sustainable Production and Consumption“ at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. From 2000-2006 she was managing director of the Club of Wuppertal e.V. -Forum for sustainable middle-sized companies and since 2007 a member of the board. Her dissertation project focused on Regional Sustainability Networks – A Multi-scale Analysis of Learning Partnerships between Schools and Businesses (finished in October 2011).

Professional expertise: concepts, instruments and policy approaches of sustainable consumption;

lifestyle research, social milieu-approaches; communication, education and qualification for sustainability; co-operation, networks and dialogue of SCP; instruments for the sustainable development in companies; sustainable profiles of companies and products; land use management.

Yekta Bakırlıoglu, Research Assistant and Graduate Student, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Yekta Bakırlıoglu is a Research Assistant and graduate student in the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical University. He holds a BID in Industrial Design from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Industrial Design at METU. His research interests include design education for sustainability, and sustainable consumption and production. For his master thesis, he is exploring the ‘biomimicry approach’, an approach for design for sustainability, in product design education for sustainability, through analyzing the products designed through this approach.

C.A. Bakker, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, The Netherlands

Dr Conny Bakker is Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology (since 2008), where she coordinates and teaches the minor Sustainable Design Engineering. Her research interests include resource scarcity (the implications of resource scarcity for industrial design engineers), and

methodologies for user centred sustainable design (exploring the relationships between consumer behaviour, sustainability and design).

From 1996 to 2000, Conny Bakker worked as a project manager 'sustainable design' at the Netherlands Design Institute in Amsterdam. She organised conferences, workshops and lectures, and wrote the book 'Trespassers, inspirations for eco-efficient design'. For many years she was a driving force behind the O2 Network for sustainable design. Conny Bakker holds a PhD in 'environmental information for industrial designers', which she obtained in 1995 while working at the research organisation TNO.

Andrea Bandoni, Conceptual Designer and Design Consultant, Brazil

Andrea is an independent product and interior designer with a strong focus on sustainability and innovation. She believes design has to add something relevant to our saturated world, being a creative force for environmental and social change. Her ongoing project Objects of the Forest is the first initiative to explore the Amazon region through designer’s eyes, including the local people and spotting sustainable possibilities: objects, materials and processes that can help designers imagine and experiment new solutions for the future. Andrea is Master in Conceptual Design graduated at Design Academy Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Architect graduated at FAUUSP (Brazil). She had projects exhibited and acquired by museums and galleries in The Netherlands, France and Switzerland. Her works were published in relevant books and magazines, and she was awarded for three times in Brazil. Andrea gives lectures, workshops and consultancy in areas related to her work and studies. She is also part of the group that is implementing a digital fabrication lab (FabLab) in São Paulo. In July 2012, Andrea was awarded Young Creative Entrepreneur (Design Category) by the British Council, entering the network with the most prominent agents of the Creative Economy in the world.

Frank Becker, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany, Karin Zacharias Langhans, Germany

Frank Becker is a skilled electrician and political economist. He worked as a Trade Union secretary of IG Metall Berlin from 1988 until 1993. As a management consultant, human ressources manager and project manager in the areas of strategy development, regional development, skills development and conflict moderation he was concerned with economic transformation in the course of the German reunification since 1993. Since 2001 Frank is staff member of Science Shop kubus (Co-operation and Consulting for Environmental Questions) at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB).

His primary areas of work are: co-operation networks for sustainable development, regional economy, strategies of reuse and further use as well as social co-operation networks. Frank is contact at TUB the for different enterprise networks in Berlin. He is member of board of the ReUse-Computer association. Frank is engaged in research project concerning resource recovery and sustainable entrepreneurship, e.g. .hikk – Wood in CreativeCycle, ZeroWIN – Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks.

Frank Becker was scholarship holder of Hans-Böckler foundation.

Dr. Simon Berner, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany

Simon Berner studied Food Technology and Biotechnology at the TU Munich. After graduation he worked as scientific assistant at the chair in Chemical-Technical Analysis and Chemical Food Technology. He received his doctor‘s degree (Dr.-Ing.) in 2007 (topic of the thesis: Enrichment and Separation of pathologic Prion Protein (PrPSc) from bovine Brain by means of Foam Flotation).

Until 2011 he was employed as development engineer and project leader in the department for research and development at the company Weleda AG. Besides the leadership of product innovation projects as well as the management of projects to revise existing products, he was the leader of the technical center which main focus was on minimizing the duration of new product developments in R&D.

Since July 2011 Simon Berner is working for the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research at the Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight as research fellow and project leader.

Tanja Bisgaard, Founder, Novitas Innovation, Denmark

Tanja founded Novitas Innovation in 2010, a small consultancy that focuses on conceptualising new ways in which companies and organisations can work with sustainability, and the effect it has on companies’ innovation processes as well as innovation policy development. Some of the recent projects she has worked on include Green Business Model Innovation for the organisations Nordic Innovation and the Danish Business Authority; and the facilitation of an innovation platform for Smart Cities Digital Infrastructure for Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster. Tanja Bisgaard was Manager of Policy Analysis at FORA, the Danish Business Authority, where she worked on projects including the Danish contribution to the OECD's Innovation Strategy 2010 together with some of the world's leading academics such as C.K. Prahalad, José Santos and Eric von Hippel.

Markus Bjerre, Head of Section, Danish Ministry of Business and Growth, Denmark

Markus Bjerre currently works in the areas of green growth and eco-innovation as head of section at the Danish Ministry of Business and Growth. Markus currently works with the Danish growth team on food industry, the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF), a project on green business model innovation and more.

Markus was Project Manager at FORA, the Danish Business Authority, where he worked in the areas of international cluster benchmark, vocational and entrepreneurial analysis.

Jack de Bokx, Senior Director, Johnson & Johnson, UK

Jack De Bokx is a Senior Director at Johnson and Johnson with regional (EMEA) responsibility for Johnson and Johnson’s EHS programmes. Besides that Jack is also the Global Champion for implementing EHS programmes in the commercial organizations within J&J and the Chair of the Medical Device Sustainability Council in Europe. Jack’s background includes over 25 years of experience in the fields of Environmental, Safety and Quality Management. He holds a Master of Science degree in Integrated Quality, Environmental and Safety Management and an MBA in Operational Management from the University of Bradford, U.K. and is a member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management.

Cecilia Bratt, PhD Student, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Cecilia is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. She has a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and a teacher pedagogical certificate from Linköpings University. In 2011 she defended her licentiate with the title Assessment of Eco-Labelling and Green Procurement from a Strategic Sustainable Perspective. Her research focus is on how to integrate a strategic sustainability perspective into product labelling and procurement functions to support sustainable product service innovation. She has been involved in a research project, Labelling and procurement support for sustainable product innovation. In this project professional criteria development processes for eco- labelling and for green procurement in Sweden have been explored. She is a former top athlete in orienteering holding a world champion title in relay from 1997 and a silver medal from 2001.

J.C. Brezet (Han) Dr. Ir., Professor, TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering, Design for Sustainability, The Netherlands

Han Brezet (1951) is Research Director of the Faculty and DfS (Design for Sustainability) Professor.

He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from TU Delft, where he graduated in 1977 on the issue of integration of WindPower in the grid. After the co-creation of the Erasmus’ Environmental Sciences Institute (ESM), he completed his PhD in energy innovation at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

He held several jobs in industry and became director of the Institute of Environmental Economics

(TME), before returning to TU Delft. Since 1992 he is tenure professor in sustainable product design at the IDE Faculty, where he has established the DfS programme. In cooperation with UNEP Paris and companies like Philips, the program was among the first in the world in the area of life cycle oriented Applied Ecodesign: the development of useful products with de-carbonization, de-toxification and de- materialization as co-drivers. Among the outputs are ca. 30 doctoral dissertations and a few hundred MSc theses. Today, the programme includes concepts and themes like product-services systems, energy-efficient and renewable energy based products, natural materials’ based products and product design for emerging markets.

Göran Broman, Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Professor Broman is Director of the Sustainability-Driven Innovation Group and Director of the Center for Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Lund University. Parallel to his engineering education he has undertaken extensive studies in ecology, economy, resource theory, leadership and other subjects relevant to his passion in sustainability and he has been instrumental in the development of a framework for strategic sustainable development. Professor Broman is active in a broad range of areas, reaching from strategic sustainable development over product-service system innovation to engineering and simulation-driven design. Professor Broman leads a team that develops methodology and combines competences within these areas with the uniting purpose of creating capacity in business and society for sustainable innovation. The work is performed in an action research mode with business and societal partners.

Doris Zwicker Bucci, Professor Dr., Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Brazil

Graduated in Chemical Engineering and Specialization in Science at University of Blumenau (Brazil) and Master's degree in Production Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) (2003).

PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) (2010).

More than fifteen years experience as a Chemical Engineer in companies related to textile, metallurgical and food. Researcher during 10 years in the field of food products and packaging development at the department of R&D at Bunge Foods.

She has been Professor at University of Blumenau since 1982. Teacher on undergraduate courses such as Design, Production Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Chemistry as well as at Master Degree programs in Environmental Engineering and Bachelor of Chemistry at FURB, acting as advisor of research with sustainable materials.

She is a member of the research group GEPPS (Group of Engineering of the Product Process and Services) (Brazil) since 2005 and has held positions as head of the Department of Production Engineering(FURB) and Design and coordinator of the course of Production Engineering (FURB) Doris has acted as an advisor in research and studies on the following themes: biodegradation, biodegradable plastics and composites (PHB, PLA ....), packaging, food, environment, recycling, ecodesign, product and packaging development, project management and sustainable product and packaging development process.

Published and presented several papers in national and international conferences, also an author of a book and a book chapter.

Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts, UK

Martin has worked at director level on business sustainability issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research for over 24 years. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, building products, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including Save & Prosper Group, Reed International, Creative Marketing Group and Kiveton Park (Holdings) Ltd. Martin was the launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing, Marketing Director at the Earth Centre, former director of business networks focused on sustainable business, green electronics and eco-innovation. Martin was the founding editor

of the Journal of Sustainable Product Design, The Green Management Letter and Greener Management International (GMI) and is presently a member of the Editorial Boards of GMI, International Journals of Sustainable Engineering and Sustainable Design. Martin has been a member of international/national/regional advisory boards covering green electronics, environmental technology, sustainability reporting & sustainable innovation (e.g. for P&G and InterfaceFlor in Europe). Presently, he sits on the expert boards of the EC Eco-Innovation Observatory and the World Resources Forum. Martin is presently convenor of ISO 14006 (eco-design management systems) and was the previous UK expert to both ISO and BSI groups on ISO TR 14062 (eco-design). Martin is the producer and organiser of the ‘Sustainable Innovation’ international conference series that is its 16th year. He is a regular international conference speaker and author and editor of various books and publications including Greener Marketing (1992 and 1999), The Green Management Gurus [e-book]

(1996), Managing Eco-design (1997), Sustainable Solutions (2001) and System Innovation for Sustainability (2008). Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School (UK) and postgraduate diploma in marketing. Martin attended The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.

Garrette Clark, Programme Officer, Business and Industry Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, France

Garrette Clark is a Programme Officer with the Business and Industry Unit in the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of the Division of Industry, Technology and Economics at UNEP.

Her expertise lies in cleaner production, sustainable product development and business outreach.

Garrette is managing the 3 year EC supported Resource Efficiency and Eco-Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries project. This 4 million euro project, which targets developing countries, will build on national resource efficiency capacities and enhance them to cover eco-innovation capacity building - in technical and policy terms. She has worked with the joint UNIDO UNEP National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs) Programme and leads capacity building in cleaner production related topics including cleaner production and design for sustainability. In the area of Design for Sustainability (D4S), she has authored and produced publications for NCPCs and on Product Services Systems. Within the EC project a key policy link will be with sustainable public procurement efforts - the key being that no matter how ‘sustainable’ a product is – it doesn’t make a difference if no one buys it. Previously working with UNEP, Garrette worked in the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She has a Masters in Public Policy from University of California.

Richard Coles, Associate Lecturer, The Open University, Designing for a Sustainable Future, UK

Richard is an Associate in Packaging for Postgraduate Food Education & Industrial Training Programmes at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, Co-editor and contribution author for 2nd edition of a book entitled “Food and Beverage Packaging Technology”

published by Wiley-Blackwell (2011), author of “Paper and Paperboard Packaging” for a forthcoming book entitled “The Future of Packaging” to be published by Woodhead and member of the UK Institute of Materials’ Packaging Society.

Richard has over 25 years experience in the agri-food packaging industries having conducted industrial and academic R&D with Metal Box/Nampak (SA) Ltd., Tetra Pak, The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and Syngenta. He has also been a senior lecturer in packaging at the University of Herts. Speaks a little German

Matteo Conti, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK

Matteo has been a senior lecturer in Transportation Design and an industrial placement tutor for the past ten nine years at Northumbria University. During this time he also led the course between 2005 and 2007 before being also involved in the teaching provision of the Design for Industry course. This Italian bi-lingual academic has been creating various successful industrial partnerships with prestigious design consultancies (Concept Group International, Drive, Iveco, Jaguar, Pininfarina, Stile Bertone, and Visteon) over the years to carry out collaborative projects and secure student placements.

Nele D’Haese , Researcher, VITO, Belgium

Nele did doctoral research at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at the University of Rotterdam on the influence of the geographic proximity of petrochemical clusters on the development of a biobased industry in four port regions in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta, i.e. the ports of Antwerp, Ghent, Rotterdam and Terneuzen. She intends to defend her PhD thesis by the end of 2012. Since mid 2011, Nele works as a researcher at VITO on topics related to the broad field of sustainable resource management. She conducts background studies and policy analyses on subjects such as product- service systems, the development of a biobased economy and closing (biobased) material loops. In addition to this, she also develops tools to assess innovation projects and organisations supporting innovation.

Trevor Davis, Futurist, IBM, UK

As a teenager, Trevor Davis would ride his bike any distance to find a rare comic book or a cool jacket. Born with an innate curiosity, it is no wonder he has ended up as a Global Strategy Consultant at IBM.

But that’s not to say his career path has been linear. After a stint as a fashion model in the 1970s, Trevor set out to become a pilot. However, the oil crisis forced him to rethink his mission. He found his calling in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Aston, where he was drawn to a unique alchemy of hard science and industrial arts. His experience there inspired him to devote his life to designing and making things that make the world a better place.

While at University, British Leyland, the UK car manufacturer with a troubled history, sponsored Trevor’s research and spurred on his interest in the potential of science and technology for a sustainable future. Trevor is a self-proclaimed pragmatic optimist and after receiving a first-class honours degree and a Ph.d, he dedicated himself to sustainability projects. To this day his doctoral work continues to save the world millions of barrels of oil.

In the 1980s Trevor jumped at the opportunity to work with the Aluminum Company of Canada on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. To this day he still believes that “we need to get off the rock in the long term,” but he says he’ll settle for a Smarter Planet in the meantime.

Trevor works exclusively with Consumer Products (CP) and Retail companies such as Unilever, P&G, Mars, BAT, Kraft, Nestlé, Diageo, Heineken, and Boots. His current role at IBM requires him to travel the world advising CP companies on how to approach innovation as a growth strategy. Trevor is one of the lead authors for IBM’s Future of Consumer Products whitepaper and a contributor to the ground-breaking book “The Future of Innovation”(published by Gower).

Wim Debacker, Researcher, VITO, Belgium

Wim finished his PhD in February 2009 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the field of structural design and life cycle assessment (LCA) of temporary buildings and their components. Since mid 2009 he works as a researcher at VITO in the broad field of “sustainable building and living”. Currently, he is responsible for several life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on buildings and building components, as well as the assessment of innovative building concepts. These studies are commissioned by federal and regional governments and also by building professionals. Besides, he is a member of some working and steering committees promoting transition to a sustainable building environment.

Johannes Dietrich, Technische Universität Berlin, Science Shop Kubus, Germany

Johannes Dietrich degreed as engineer for renewable energy systems and as adult educator. Since 2009 he works as scientific staff at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Centre for Scientific Continuing Education and Co-operation/ Co-operation and Consulting for Environmental Questions (Science Shop kubus). He works with regional enterprise networks like ReUse-Computer e.V. and Netzwerk Großbeerenstraße e.V. in order to improve resource-use through product re-use and material recycling on an industrial level. Mr. Dietrich is involved in the project "Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks (ZeroWIN, 2009-2014), which is funded by the European Community. Mr. Dietrich is also supervisor for 18 students´ project laboratories at TUB, that work towards innovative products, training methods and research approaches in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.

Along the way Johannes Dietrich runs the university based Free Shop "Ula".

Cagla Dogan, Assistant Professor, Department Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Cagla Dogan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. on product design for sustainability from the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada, and a B.ID. and M.Sc. in Industrial Design from METU. Her design-based research is on product design, design education and generative research for sustainability. She has presented at several peer-reviewed international conferences (ICSID, IDSA, EAD, SI, DRS), and her publications include co-authored papers in the Journal of Sustainable Product Design and the International Journal of Product Design.

Bernd Draser, Lecturer, ecosign/Akademie fűr Gestlatung, Germany

For about eight years, Bernd Draser is working as a lecturer of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at ecosign/Akademie für Gestlatung (www.ecosign.net) in Cologne, Germany. The ecosign academy offers unique and innovative full-time courses in sustainable design since 1994, with currently about 250 students enrolled.

For ecosign, Bernd is involved in several projects dealing with sustainable design, such as the Sustainable Summer School that will take place for the 4th time in August/September 2012.

As a philosopher and literature scholar with a focus on cultural studies, Bernd is reading classical texts from the philosophical tradition from Plato to Foucault with his students, but also gives lectures on quaint subjects such as, “Hitchcock and the Analytical Look“, “Islam and Europe“, “Homer‘s Iliad“,

“Rituals and Media“, “Wild Women“, “James Bond and Theseus“, and “The Ends of the World in the Bible and the Movies“. A peculiar question for Bernd is how to think sustainability in a context of cultural history.

Stuart English, Programme Leader, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK

A specialist in design led innovation, Stuart English leads a portfolio of postgraduate programmes at Northumbria University, he is director of Ideas-lab and manages the High Value Low Carbon unit. His work on relational problem framing has initiated new methods, new products and new IP through an inclusive approach based on design led entrepreneurship. This addresses multi and cross-disciplinary contexts bounded by clarity of market objectives, and has led to numerous new companies and filed patents. The concept of multiple perspective problem framing developed by English as part of a PhD by publication provides the foundation for the development of ongoing academic collaboration, new postgraduate curricula, intellectual property and commercial value for business both through contract research and CPD.

Lorenz Erdmann, Research Associate and Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany

Lorenz Erdmann joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in October 2011. He works as a senior researcher at the Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight. Among his major research topics are sustainability innovations as well as the development and application of foresight methods (e.g. scenarios, roadmapping, future-oriented surveys and dialogues), and their integration into inter- and transdisciplinary research processes (e.g.

combination with methods of industrial ecology and social-ecological research).

Lorenz Erdmann graduated at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) in Environmental Engineering. Afterwards (1999-2011) he worked as research associate and project manager at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin. In 2010 he completed a research stay at the Center for Industrial Ecology of Yale University.

Fatemeh Eskandarypur, Responsible Textile Specialist, Textiles for life, UK

A woven textile specialist, Fatemeh launched her career in the textile industry more than 20 years ago after graduating with a BA degree in Fashion/Textiles combined with Business Administration. She has worked with fibre, fabric, garment, home textile manufacturers and retailers and has considered the importance of transparency and communication throughout the supply chain as a prerequisite not only in making responsible choices but also ensuring optimum socio/cultural, ecological, economic and wellbeing viability for both people and the planet.

Her work in the evolvement of fabrics has encompassed both Research & Development in new fibres and technologies, design, CAD, manufacturing, sourcing, product development and marketing globally, as well as Research Associate posts at London College of Fashion. She will also be resuming a PhD research started in 2009 on ‘Responsible Industrial Laundering’ - the ecological, social and economic interrelation between responsible supply chain management and the aftercare of textiles in industrial laundries.

Since 2000, Fatemeh has acted as an independent advisor, consultant and project manager evolving in her setting up Textiles For life (TFL), a forward thinking and hands-on organization whose key specialty includes guiding and implementing practical and naturally profitable turn key programs and strategies for ecological (including organic) and responsible textile processes and product development from source to consumer and back to source. This includes working with the luxury hospitality, spa and wellness sectors to introduce Responsible Luxury textiles into the sector.

A key emphasis of Textiles for life is the continuous development and research in the after-care and after-life of textiles through the principles of ‘Cradle to Cradle’ and the Circular Economy. TFL guides and assists textile manufacturing companies and industrial laundries towards developing and integrating performance related responsible best practice guidelines and cost efficient methodologies into all areas of facility manufacturing, management and operations (including the supply chain)

At Textiles for life, Fatemeh is now instigating and collaborating on partnerships to effectively join forces in driving the principles of the circular economy to empower and enhance all stakeholders in the supply chain process (including the user/client). This involves researching a new way of conducting business by developing and introducing responsible leasing programmes based on circular economy principles (instead of conventional systems of buying and ‘throwawayism’) within the textile sector and other direct and indirect sectors such as, furniture, carpets and white goods (e.g. washing machines).

Professor Klaus Fichter, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Klaus Fichter is the founder and director of the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability.

He is Professor for Innovation and Sustainability Management, at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and is on the board of directors of the Oldenburg Centre for Sustainability Economics and Management (CENTOS). The emphasis of his research is upon innovation management, eco- entrepreneurship and the creation of sustainable innovations. His particular focus is thereby upon strategic and interactive methods, innovation communities and the entrepreneurial role within the innovation process (entrepreneurship, interpreneurship).

Klaus Fichter studied business administration, entrepreneurship and economics at the University of Bremen. From 1993 to 2000 he was head of the research field “Corporate Environmental Management” at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOEW) in Berlin. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1998 and his habilitation (qualifying for full professorship) in 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he was Associate Professor and since 2010 he is Professor, Innovation and Sustainability Management, at the Department for Economis, Management and Law at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Fernando Antônio Forcellini, Professor Dr., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Campus Universitário Trindade, Brazil

Graduated Mechanical Engineer, in 1985, master in 1989 and doctor in 1994 by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Senior Lecturer at Mechanical Engineering Department of UFSC since 1994 to 2006. Nowadays works at the Production Engineering Department of UFSC. He already mentored more than 80 masters and doctors, with more than 250 articles published in national and

international events and journals. He has participated and coordinated cooperative projects with several national and international institutions. Now, he acts as researcher of GEPP – Product and Process Engineering Group and as teacher of the Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

The works developed by the Group of Engineering of the Product Process and Services (GEPPS) are aimed at developing better explanation and understanding of the strategic importance of product development, as key element for the obtaining of competitiveness and quality of the products and industrial processes. GEPPS acts in the areas of Collaborative Product Development (CPD) in that are studied the application of practices of collaboration in the Products Development Process (PDP).

In the area of Sustainability in Product Development he has studied the application of tools and methods of Eco-efficiency and of Cleaner Production in the context of the business processes of the organizations. He researches in the area of Knowledge Management in PDP, that studies the modeling of the knowledge used along PDP and knowledge acquisition on the phases of the life cycle of the products.

César Levy França, PhD Student, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

César Levy França is a PhD student of the Sustainability-Driven Innovation Group from Blekinge Institute of Technology BTH, karlskrona Sweden. His research is focused on integration of sustainability-driven strategies and business models design. He holds a master’s degree in strategic leadership towards sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology. Parallell to his studies he leads the creativity for product and service development course at BTH, and coordinates a cooperation agreement for student and staff exchange between Blekinge Institute of Technology and Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil. He was co-founder and director in Brazil for the international sustainability organization The Natural Step.

Dr. Justus von Geibler, Project Co-ordinator, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany

Justus von Geibler works at the Wuppertal Institute within the research group "sustainable production and consumption" as a project co-ordinator. He studied forest sciences and environmental management and policy in Germany, South Africa and Sweden and has a PhD (Dr. phil.) at the Ruhr- University-Bochum in economic geography. In 1997, he worked as public relations assistant for waste management in a governmental administration. From 1997 to 1999 he was a research and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Forestry of the Göttingen University. Since October 2000 he has been working at the Wuppertal Institute, first in the Eco-efficiency and Sustainable Enterprise Group and since 2003 in the Sustainable Production and Consumption Department. His areas of work are the following: Sustainability indicators and reporting at corporate and sectoral level; Governance structures for sustainable production and consumption; stakeholder dialogues and communication in global product chains; Life-cycle wide sustainability assessment of emerging technologies such as information and communication technologies and biotechnology: Sustainable biomass, forestry and wood industry.

Luca Venerando Giuffrida, Seconded National Expert to Unit E.4 LIFE Environment & Eco-innovation, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Belgium

Luca Venerando Giuffrida has been working since June 2012 works as Seconded National Expert to Unit E.4 LIFE Environment & Eco-innovation, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Belgium. He is seconded from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, where, from 2008, he was a Legal Officer in the Energy Department and an Auditor for Cooperatives Companies. From 2001 to 2008, he was a trainee lawyer, and then he became a fully qualified lawyer and a teacher of law and economics. Luca owns a Ph.D. in Administrative Law, obtained in 2012 from the Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy, in which he wrote a thesis in Environmental and Energy Law. He has also an Advanced University Degree in Disciplines of Law and Economics, received in 2005 from Catania University, Italy, and an Advanced University Degree for Legal professions, obtained by the same University in 2003.

His interest in the Environmental and Energy fields has led him to write a number of articles, which have been published in journals specialising in this field, to give lectures in a Master's course and to participate in Conferences dealing with these issues.

Professor Dr. Viktor Grinewitschus, Professor for Building Services, Hochschule Ruhr West, University of Applied Sciences, Institute for Energy Systems and Energy Business, Germany

Viktor studied Electrical Engineering with a focus on telecommunications engineering at University of Duisburg. He received a PhD in 1997, since 2003 has been Professor for Building Services at Hochschule Ruhr West, University of Applied Sciences. Since 1990 he has been an employee of Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS), founder and head of the group

“Ambient Intelligence Solutions“ at Fraunhofer-IMS, developing custom designed hard-and software solutions on system integration and process optimisation in buildings. In 1998 he was co-founder and head of Fraunhofer inHaus centre, which is a laboratory facility for intelligent room and building systems run by seven Fraunhofer Institutes and more than 90 business partners. The focus lies on the cooperative development of new products and services to optimise processes in buildings. He is a member of the scientific council of the Vaillant Group and Sozialwerk St.Georg, curator of Fraunhofer IVI, Dresden, member of the council of Conlife exhibition, Cologne and of the advisory board of iHomeLab (Luzern).

Sophie Hallstedt, PhD and Head of Department, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Sophie holds a Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on Sustainable Product Innovation from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden and a Licentiate Degree in Engineering in Environmental Sciences from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has industrial experience from the steel industry, biological monitoring area and aero industry. Sophie Hallstedt is currently Head of Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at Blekinge Institute of Technology and part-time senior researcher working towards an Associate Professorship. Her research interests include how a strategic sustainability perspective can be integrated and implemented into product innovation process with focus on the early phases. Her research is done in close cooperation with industry and society, which is also the aim of the current Vinnmer project and DecSuS project.

Marco Hasselkuß, Junior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany

Marco studied social sciences and English language and literature at University of Wuppertal with his degree Bachelor of Arts in 2008. He studies social sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum with a Master of Arts in 2011. He was a student and Research Assistant at Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund, TU Dortmund University, 2009 – 2012 and a junior Research Fellow at Wuppertal Institute, since February 2012. His dissertation was “Regional networks between schools and enterprises for Education for Sustainable Development, a network analysis based on structuration theory (working title) ” Research Focus: Networks for Education for Sustainable Development, Structuration theory and Social Practice Theory in sustainability research, User-integrated sustainability innovations in Sustainable LivingLabs.

Besides the provision of consultancy of product and corporate sustainability performance assessment to industry (OEM and SME) and public authorities, the responsibility for the life cycle inventory (LCI) data sets for electronic processes, auxiliaries, components, products, assembly lines and systems in the publicly available PE International databases. Especially data which is the vehicle for measuring resource and energy efficiency as well as can be used in sustainable design and development. It allows analysing environmental performance and gives insight into new aspects and indicators from a different perspective, which often creates innovation and allows finding new ways in design and development of products and solutions.

Kristian Henriksen, Special Advisor, Danish Ministry of Business and Growth, Denmark

Kristian Henriksen currently works in the areas of green growth and eco-innovation as a special advisor at the Danish Ministry of Business and Growth. Kristian currently works with the Danish growth team on energy and climate, the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF), a project on green business model innovation and more. Kristian is a member of the Eco Innovation Action Plan High Level Working Group. Kristian has previously worked in the areas of productivity research and innovation capacity benchmarks where he managed a project for the EU Commission mapping innovation capacity and performance across the Baltic Sea Region. He has also managed a project on Green Business Models in the Nordic Region for the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Sascha Hermann, Director, VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH, Germany

Sascha Hermann, born 1966 in Duisburg, studied Civil Engineering at the University of Essen after having completed his compulsory military service.

From 1993 until 1996 he worked as a project engineer for waste water treatment plants at Ingenieurbüro DAR, an affiliate of RWE Umwelt AG. He then managed PPP-projects, fully authorized since 1997. In 2001, an RWE project company under his leadership won a concession running until 2029 for financing, constructing and operating the waste water treatment plants of the Croatian capital Zagreb.

In 2001, Hermann moved to RWE Umwelt AG’s headquarters and became assistant to the CEO. In 2003, he took over the management of RWE Umwelt Rohstoff GmbH, RWE Group’s specialist company for trading and utilising secondary raw materials.

In 2005, he was assigned as head of the professional-politics division at VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (The Association of German Engineers). In 2008 he became managing director of VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, one of Germany’s leading project management organisations specialised in research funding and innovation politics.

Additionally, in January 2011, he took over the management of VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH (VDI ZRE) in Berlin, cooperation between the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and the VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. VDI ZRE’s main objective is to foster the integrated application of technologies for environmental, resource and climate protection by the help of knowledge transfer.

Since 2008, Sascha Hermann is member of the board at the Accreditation Agency for Degree Programmes in Engineering, Natural and Computer Sciences and Mathematics (ASIIN).

He is married and has two children.

Dr Constantin Herrmann, Principal Consultant, PE International, Germany

Constantin is team leader electronics and metals at PE International AG and coordinates consultancy on subjects such as green IT, ErP Directive, sustainable electric and electronics as well as sustainable metal processing and recycling.

In particular he is responsible for project and strategy development on measuring sustainability performance of materials, products, equipment and systems and has business experience on Ecodesign, Carbon Footprint/ LCA, EPDs and Life Cycle Thinking since 1997. Depicted examples of his work of more than 200 projects are the development of the first voluntary industry agreements under the ErP Directive for CECIMO and COCIR in 2009, first setup of PE International’s LCA database for electronics in 2001 and the internationally first full LCA of an electronic product with Motorola in 1997.

Dr. Kevin Hilton, PGR Programmes Leader, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK

Dr. Kevin Hilton is Northumbria School of Design’s Postgraduate Research Programmes Leader, working from the Centre for Design Research. He was a Co-Founder of the Centre and initially