Sustainable Innovation 03
Creating Sustainable Products, Services and Product-Service Systems

Towards Sustainable
Product Design 8
8th International Conference
27-28 October 2003
Nordic Sea Hotel
Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

   

Organised by:
The Centre for Sustainable Design
Sponsord by
The Nordic Council of Ministers
Swedish Business Development Agency (NUTEK), Sweden
Ministry of Environment, Sweden
Supported by:
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK
Sustainable Trade & Innovation Centre (STIC), Netherlands

 

Day 1 Big Picture

Chair: Charlotte Nyberg, Director of Trade and Policy, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

8.30 Registration, Coffee and networking

9.15 Introduction
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

9.25 10 year plan for sustainable consumption and production
Bas de Leeuw, Task Force Leader on Sustainable Consumption and Production Unit, United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), France

9.50 Sustainable innovation
Dr Peter White, Associate Director for Corporate Sustainable Development, Procter & Gamble, UK

10.15 Sustainable innovation: viewpoints

10.30 Creativity process
Led by Niels Peter Flint, Concept Designer, Denmark

10.45 Coffee and networking

11.10 Transnational perspective
Gunnel Wisen, Vice President - Sustainability, ABB, Sweden

11.30 Innovation perspective
Sven Gunnar Edlund, Deputy Head of Division, VINNOVA, Sweden

11.50 Panel discussion
Chair: Dale Anne Bourjaily, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Trade Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands

12.20 Lunch and networking

1.20 Living Laboratory
Chair: Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

Living Laboratory 1 - PReco
Philippe Lalande & Martin Racine, Universite de Montreal, Canada

Living Laboratory 2 - Eco Mileage Card
Edilson Shindi Ueda, Chiba University, Japan

Living Laboratory 3 - Memo Board
Kika Ioannou, Inter College, Cyprus

Living Laboratory 4 - Splendid Eco-Car
Daniel Kenning, Splendid Engineering, UK

2.20 Developing world perspective
Ritu Kumar, Director, TERI (Europe), UK

2.40 SME perspective
Sune Halvarsson, Acting Director General, NUTEK - Swedish Business Development Agency, Sweden

3.00 Refereed section
Session 1: Changing framework conditions and the policy agenda
Chair: Staffan Larsson, Head of Analysis Department, Swedish Business Development Agency, Sweden

Session 2: Innovation in technology, design and development practices 1
Chair: Christer Ericsson, Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, Sweden

Session 3: Innovation in technology, design and development practices 2
Chair: Andreas Englund, Director, MInT, Sweden

Session 4: Triggers and barriers to innovation

Chair: Preben Kristensen, Director, Danish Toxicological Centre, Denmark

Session 5: Innovation in management and business models
Chair: Stefan Henningsson, Department for Sustainable Development, NUTEK - Swedish Business Development Agency, Sweden

6.00 Report back

6.30 Drinks and Entertainment led by Howard Read

8.00 Conference dinner


Day 2 New Perspectives

Chair: Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

9.00 Registration

9.30 Introduction
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK

9.35 Keynote
Anna Lise Mortensen, Director, Sustainable Development, Hartmann, Denmark

9.55 Integrated Product Policy (IPP) and innovation
Dr Frieder Rubik, Head, Product Policy, IOEW, Germany

10.15 Sustainable innovation: viewpoints

10.30 Creativity process
Led by Niels Peter Flint, Concept Designer, Denmark

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.25 A Japanese perspective
Katsuro Oda, Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

11.50 Nordic experiences 1998-2003: methods stimulating commercialisation of sustainable innovations
Andreas Englund, Director, MInT, Sweden

12.10 Sustainable Innovation: A New Perspective

Gary Waterworth Owen, Founder: The ResponseABILITY Alliance, Zimbabwe

12.30 Lunch and networking

1.30 Creativity process 3
Led by David Walker & Rob Holdway, Directors, Giraffe Innovation, UK

Workshop 1: Home
Chair: Maarten Ten Houten, Senior Environmnetal Consultant, Environment Competence Centre, Philips Consumer Electronics, Netherlands

Workshop 2: Food
Chair: Dr Arnold Tukker, Senior Consultant, TNO, Netherlands

Workshop 3: Mobility
Chair: Colin Beard, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Workshop 4: Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

Chair: Andrew Baynes, European Environmental Manager, Apple, France

Workshop 5: Clothing
Chair: Mike Barry, Environment Manager, Marks & Spencer, UK

3.40 Reportback and awards

4.10 Discussion

4.30 Close

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