Conference Announcement & Call for Papers - Sustainable Innovation 03
27 October 2003 - 28 October 2003
Sweden
Organised by ,The Centre for Sustainable Design
Sponsored by ,The Nordic Council of Ministers,Swedish Business Development Agency (NUTEK), Sweden,Ministry of Environment, Sweden
Supported by,Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK
Background,The Centre for Sustainable Design (http://www.cfsd.org.uk(opens in new window)) is based at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. Established in 1995, it has become a leading European training and research centre focused on eco-design management and sustainable solutions development. A key feature of the Centre's activities has been the Towards Sustainable Product Design series of international conferences that have been organised in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Netherlands. From 2001, conferences have focused on specific themes: services and management. The focus for 2003 will be Sustainable Innovation and event will be organised in Sweden.
Sustainable Innovation 03 will be a high profile conference that responds to the recommendation by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) at Johannesburg (www.johnnesburgsummit.org) to "encourage and promote the development of a 10 year framework of programmes in support of regional and national initiatives to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production to promote social and economic development within the carrying capacity of ecosystems by addressing and, where appropriate, delinking economic growth and environmental degradation through improving efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and production processes, and reducing resource degradation, pollution and waste". Sustainable Innovation 03 is a specific input into the development of "awareness-raising programmes on the importance of sustainable production and consumption patterns".
"The need to change unsustainable production and consumption would promote innovation, new business opportunities and job creation... the international community must focus efforts and resources on a number of key areas and set clear targets. Scientists, businesses, trade unions and consumers must be mobilised in a strategy for a decisive change to use new technologies and learn new behaviour".
Goran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, World Leaders Statement, WSSD, September 4th 2002
"For us, innovation is the best way to make a contribution to changing consumer habits - not by persuading the customer to consume less but to consume differently"
Belmiro de Azevedo, CEO, Sonae, Portugal in 'Walking the Talk' (www.greenleaf-publishing.com)
Why Innovation?,To move towards more sustainable demand and supply-side patterns will require the creation, development, purchase and use of more sustainable products, services and product-service-systems (PSS). This will involve changes to buyer behaviour at all levels (consumer, business and government). To achieve this will mean new thinking, (re)thinking and higher levels of creativity amongst all stakeholders.
Concept,Sustainable Innovation 03 will explore the concept of sustainable innovation from a product, service and PSS viewpoint by providing a platform for discussion over best practice and new ideas. The event will analyse the problems, barriers and obstacles to sustainable innovation associated with existing social, legislative, economic and management systems and will highlight new business, organisational and product development models and opportunities. A unique feature will be The Living Laboratory that will showcase new product, service and concepts and thinking. Sustainable Innovation 03 will essentially be about new perspectives, thinking differently and will be a learning experience.
The event will combine a focus on the content and process of sustainable innovation at incremental, (re)design, functional and systems levels. Sustainable Innovation 03 will include invited and refereed papers on the development of sustainable products, services and PSS from designers, inventors, academics and managers. A core element of the event will be a number of interactive creative processes on day 1 and 2 designed to enable delegates to think, (re)think and create sustainable solutions. Delegates will come from large companies, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as creative industries, venture capital, academia, government and NGOs. The learning objectives of the event will be to raise awareness and understanding of the opportunities for and barriers to sustainable innovation by providing best practice and new ideas from both developed and developing countries. The conference is supported by a leading-edge international Advisory Board.
Conference topics,Sustainable Innovation 03 welcomes cases studies, conceptual and research-based papers covering sustainable innovation (products, services and PSS) in relation to five themes:,* Changing framework conditions and the policy agenda,* Innovation in technology, design and development practices,* Triggers and barriers to innovation,* International supply and value networks,* Innovation in management and business models
Living laboratory,Sustainable Innovation 03 welcomes blue-sky, thought-provoking, radical concepts and ideas with an emphasis on new business models rather than solutions focused on 'business as usual'.,* Products,* Services,* Product-service-systems (PSS)
Submission details,Conference topics: please email, fax or post 500 words describing your proposed paper by 31st January 2003. The paper will then be sent to the Advisory Board for evaluation and authors will be given feedback by the end of February. Living laboratory: please email, fax or post 2 pages that a) visualise, b) describe your proposed sustainable product, service or PSS concept and c) outline the financial, economic, social, ethical and environmental impacts (both positive and negative) of your idea. Please send your outline by 31st January 2003. Proposals will then be sent to the Advisory Board for evaluation and feedback will be returned by the end of February with successful sustainable solutions designers asked to present their concepts to decision-makers and potential investors at the event.
Website,Sustainable Innovation 03 will be supported by a website,(www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd8) that provides a series of links covering issues related to sustainable innovation. This will also include creative triggers and tools to help people think out of the box.
Advisory Board: Sustainable Innovation 03
Ray Anderson, CEO, Interface, US,Colin Beard, Sheffield Hallam University, UK,Janine Benyus, Writer, US,Gunilla Blomquist, Head of Section, Ministry of Environment, Sweden,Raymond van Ermen, Director, European Partners for Environment (EPE), Belgium,Niels Peter Flint, Concept Designer, Denmark,Claude Fussler, Director, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland,Ernst van Hattum, Chairman, O2 Global, Netherlands,Stefan Henningsson, NUTEK, Sweden,Niven Huang, Executive Director, Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD), Taiwan,Albin Kaelin, CEO, Rohner Textil, Switzerland,Preben Kristiansen, Head of Department, Environment Protection Agency, Denmark,Bas de Leeuw, Manager, Sustainable Consumption and Production Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), France,Bob Lisney, Head of Natural Resources Initiative, Hampshire County Council, UK,Ken Lum, Director, Commonwealth Science Council, UK,Darrell Mann, Chairman, TRIZ Europe, Belgium,Fumi Masuda, CEO, Openhouse, Japan,Anna Lise Mortensen, Director, Sustainable Development, Hartmann, Denmark,Jacqueline Ottman, President, J. Ottman Consulting, US,Jon Opem, Ministry of Environment, Norway,Gary Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance, South Africa,Professor Ken Peattie, Director, Centre for Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), University of Cardiff, UK,Professor Michael Polonsky, University of Victoria, Australia,Julia Ridsdale-Saw, Executive Secretary, EMC European Marketing Confederation, Belgium,Professor Nigel Roome, Chair of Sustainable Enterprise and Head of Department, Erasmus Centre for Sustainable Development & Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands,Dr Freider Rubik, Senior Researcher, Institut fur Okologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany,Bob Ryder, Head of Environment, Business and Consumer Division, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK,Dr Arnold Tukker, Senior Consultant, TNO, Netherlands,David Walker, Director, Giraffe Innovation, UK,Dr Peter White, Associate Director for Corporate Sustainable Development, Procter & Gamble, UK,Professor Ryoichi Yamamoto, Director, RCAST, University of Tokyo, Japan
,For more information on Sustainable Innovation 03 please contact:
Professor Martin Charter,Director,The Centre for Sustainable Design,The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College,Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772,Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747,Email: mcharter@surrart.ac.uk,Website: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd8(opens in new window)
Sponsored by ,The Nordic Council of Ministers,Swedish Business Development Agency (NUTEK), Sweden,Ministry of Environment, Sweden
Supported by,Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK
Background,The Centre for Sustainable Design (http://www.cfsd.org.uk(opens in new window)) is based at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. Established in 1995, it has become a leading European training and research centre focused on eco-design management and sustainable solutions development. A key feature of the Centre's activities has been the Towards Sustainable Product Design series of international conferences that have been organised in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Netherlands. From 2001, conferences have focused on specific themes: services and management. The focus for 2003 will be Sustainable Innovation and event will be organised in Sweden.
Sustainable Innovation 03 will be a high profile conference that responds to the recommendation by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) at Johannesburg (www.johnnesburgsummit.org) to "encourage and promote the development of a 10 year framework of programmes in support of regional and national initiatives to accelerate the shift towards sustainable consumption and production to promote social and economic development within the carrying capacity of ecosystems by addressing and, where appropriate, delinking economic growth and environmental degradation through improving efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and production processes, and reducing resource degradation, pollution and waste". Sustainable Innovation 03 is a specific input into the development of "awareness-raising programmes on the importance of sustainable production and consumption patterns".
"The need to change unsustainable production and consumption would promote innovation, new business opportunities and job creation... the international community must focus efforts and resources on a number of key areas and set clear targets. Scientists, businesses, trade unions and consumers must be mobilised in a strategy for a decisive change to use new technologies and learn new behaviour".
Goran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, World Leaders Statement, WSSD, September 4th 2002
"For us, innovation is the best way to make a contribution to changing consumer habits - not by persuading the customer to consume less but to consume differently"
Belmiro de Azevedo, CEO, Sonae, Portugal in 'Walking the Talk' (www.greenleaf-publishing.com)
Why Innovation?,To move towards more sustainable demand and supply-side patterns will require the creation, development, purchase and use of more sustainable products, services and product-service-systems (PSS). This will involve changes to buyer behaviour at all levels (consumer, business and government). To achieve this will mean new thinking, (re)thinking and higher levels of creativity amongst all stakeholders.
Concept,Sustainable Innovation 03 will explore the concept of sustainable innovation from a product, service and PSS viewpoint by providing a platform for discussion over best practice and new ideas. The event will analyse the problems, barriers and obstacles to sustainable innovation associated with existing social, legislative, economic and management systems and will highlight new business, organisational and product development models and opportunities. A unique feature will be The Living Laboratory that will showcase new product, service and concepts and thinking. Sustainable Innovation 03 will essentially be about new perspectives, thinking differently and will be a learning experience.
The event will combine a focus on the content and process of sustainable innovation at incremental, (re)design, functional and systems levels. Sustainable Innovation 03 will include invited and refereed papers on the development of sustainable products, services and PSS from designers, inventors, academics and managers. A core element of the event will be a number of interactive creative processes on day 1 and 2 designed to enable delegates to think, (re)think and create sustainable solutions. Delegates will come from large companies, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as creative industries, venture capital, academia, government and NGOs. The learning objectives of the event will be to raise awareness and understanding of the opportunities for and barriers to sustainable innovation by providing best practice and new ideas from both developed and developing countries. The conference is supported by a leading-edge international Advisory Board.
Conference topics,Sustainable Innovation 03 welcomes cases studies, conceptual and research-based papers covering sustainable innovation (products, services and PSS) in relation to five themes:,* Changing framework conditions and the policy agenda,* Innovation in technology, design and development practices,* Triggers and barriers to innovation,* International supply and value networks,* Innovation in management and business models
Living laboratory,Sustainable Innovation 03 welcomes blue-sky, thought-provoking, radical concepts and ideas with an emphasis on new business models rather than solutions focused on 'business as usual'.,* Products,* Services,* Product-service-systems (PSS)
Submission details,Conference topics: please email, fax or post 500 words describing your proposed paper by 31st January 2003. The paper will then be sent to the Advisory Board for evaluation and authors will be given feedback by the end of February. Living laboratory: please email, fax or post 2 pages that a) visualise, b) describe your proposed sustainable product, service or PSS concept and c) outline the financial, economic, social, ethical and environmental impacts (both positive and negative) of your idea. Please send your outline by 31st January 2003. Proposals will then be sent to the Advisory Board for evaluation and feedback will be returned by the end of February with successful sustainable solutions designers asked to present their concepts to decision-makers and potential investors at the event.
Website,Sustainable Innovation 03 will be supported by a website,(www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd8) that provides a series of links covering issues related to sustainable innovation. This will also include creative triggers and tools to help people think out of the box.
Advisory Board: Sustainable Innovation 03
Ray Anderson, CEO, Interface, US,Colin Beard, Sheffield Hallam University, UK,Janine Benyus, Writer, US,Gunilla Blomquist, Head of Section, Ministry of Environment, Sweden,Raymond van Ermen, Director, European Partners for Environment (EPE), Belgium,Niels Peter Flint, Concept Designer, Denmark,Claude Fussler, Director, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland,Ernst van Hattum, Chairman, O2 Global, Netherlands,Stefan Henningsson, NUTEK, Sweden,Niven Huang, Executive Director, Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD), Taiwan,Albin Kaelin, CEO, Rohner Textil, Switzerland,Preben Kristiansen, Head of Department, Environment Protection Agency, Denmark,Bas de Leeuw, Manager, Sustainable Consumption and Production Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), France,Bob Lisney, Head of Natural Resources Initiative, Hampshire County Council, UK,Ken Lum, Director, Commonwealth Science Council, UK,Darrell Mann, Chairman, TRIZ Europe, Belgium,Fumi Masuda, CEO, Openhouse, Japan,Anna Lise Mortensen, Director, Sustainable Development, Hartmann, Denmark,Jacqueline Ottman, President, J. Ottman Consulting, US,Jon Opem, Ministry of Environment, Norway,Gary Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance, South Africa,Professor Ken Peattie, Director, Centre for Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), University of Cardiff, UK,Professor Michael Polonsky, University of Victoria, Australia,Julia Ridsdale-Saw, Executive Secretary, EMC European Marketing Confederation, Belgium,Professor Nigel Roome, Chair of Sustainable Enterprise and Head of Department, Erasmus Centre for Sustainable Development & Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands,Dr Freider Rubik, Senior Researcher, Institut fur Okologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany,Bob Ryder, Head of Environment, Business and Consumer Division, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK,Dr Arnold Tukker, Senior Consultant, TNO, Netherlands,David Walker, Director, Giraffe Innovation, UK,Dr Peter White, Associate Director for Corporate Sustainable Development, Procter & Gamble, UK,Professor Ryoichi Yamamoto, Director, RCAST, University of Tokyo, Japan
,For more information on Sustainable Innovation 03 please contact:
Professor Martin Charter,Director,The Centre for Sustainable Design,The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College,Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772,Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747,Email: mcharter@surrart.ac.uk,Website: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd8(opens in new window)