Objective
Sustainability has become a strategic priority for both practice and theory. The quest for sustainability has already started to change the competitive landscape and has become a major driver for innovation. Innovation and more precisely sustainable new product development allows the organization to improve competitiveness while simultaneously securing environmental sustainability. However, developing sustainable products poses many challenges. Processes and products need to be re-invented, controlling systems have to integrate new sets of data, external and internal communication strategies require revisions and basic values and knowledge systems need to adapted. Central to these challenges is thus to ability to learn, the ability to acquire new knowledge and integrate that knowledge into the newly developed products. The main objective of this research project is therefore to investigate to what extent learning from previous new sustainable product development projects (sustainable NPD) affects subsequent sustainable NPD performance. More precisely, this project investigates what types of experience with sustainable NPD projects are most beneficial and distinguishes on the one hand the impact of successful versus failed sustainable NPD projects and on the other hand the influence of internal versus external sustainable NPD project learning experiences. Furthermore, it explores to what extend this relationship is moderated by the types of controls that are used to guide those sustainable NPD projects. For this purpose a combination of experiments and surveys will be used.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
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Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
3062 PA Rotterdam
Netherlands
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