2ND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Sustainable Innovation 06
Global challenges, issues and solutions
11th International Conference
23rd 24th October 2006
IIT - Stuart Graduate School of Business
Chicago
USA
Organised by:
The Centre for Sustainable Design (www.cfsd.org.uk)
In Association with:
The Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Stuart Graduate School of Business
Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences
Background
The new business model means that design, assembly, manufacturing and
consumption are now often geographically disparate within long and complex
value chains. This change has dramatic implications for the creation and
development of future products and services. Such restructuring and the
economic rise of China and India is leading to increasing interest in
Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) - with an emerging issue being
the need to improve understanding of consumers and users behaviour and
their relationship to products and services. In addition, climate change
and the need for new low carbon solutions - to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions - is now taking centre stage with growing acceptance of the
uncertainty surrounding global weather patterns. However, most
product-related
sustainability improvements are incremental or based on re-design with
little radical innovation focused on significant reduction in materials and
energy use throughout the lifecycle. In addition, where sustainable product
design and development (SPDD) happens it tends to focus on environmental
aspects with social considerations largely ignored. SPDD tends to be
practised by advanced, transnational companies with little penetration
amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A major opportunity to
accelerate sustainable innovation is emerging with the growing interest in
South-East Asia, Europe and North America in the use of public procurement
as a tool to drive improved environmental and social performance of product
and services.
Concept
Sustainable Innovation 06 will provide a platform to discuss gobal
challenges and opportunities for sustainable product/service development
and design. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case
studies and examples. Sustainable Innovation 06 will include invited and
refereed papers covering sustainable product/service development and design
from academics, consultants, product designers and design engineers,
sustainability, environment and CSR managers and other business functions.
The event will be a be a unique learning experience and networking
opportunity. Delegates will come from large companies, entrepreneurs and
small and medium-sized (SMEs), as well as academia, government and
non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The conference is supported by an
leading-edge international Advisory Board.
Conference topics
Sustainable Innovation 06 welcomes conceptual and research-based papers
covering sustainable product and service design and development in the
context of a range of issues:
* Market transformation
* Product policy
* Sustainable public procurement
* New business models
* Collaborations and partnerships
* Innovation processes
* Supply chain management
* Product-service-systems (PSS)
* Education and training
* Tools and techniques
* Management systems
* Organisational dimensions
* Performance measurement and metrics
* Newly industrialised and 'developing' country perspectives
* Case studies
There will be particular interest in papers that address the following
questions:
* How to design 'systems level' change?
* How to accelerate the design and development of low carbon products,
services and technologies?
* How to tackle organisational challenges associated with sustainable
innovation?
* How to diffuse sustainable product design and development (SPDD) to SMEs?
* How to build SPDD capacity in China and India?
Submission details
Conference papers: please email, fax or post 500 words describing your
proposed paper by 31st March 2006. The paper will then be sent to the
Advisory Board for evaluation and authors will be given feedback by the end
of April 2006. The highest rated papers will be invited to present at the
conference.
Venue
Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams Street
Chicago
Illinois 60661
USA
Delegate Fees
See
www.cfsd.org.uk/event/tspd11 for breakdown of delegate rates
Contact
For more information on Sustainable Innovation 06 please contact:
Martin Charter
Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design
University College for the Creative Arts (UCCA)
Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
Email:
mcharter@surrart.ac.uk
Website: www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd11