Sustainable Innovation 06

Sustainable Innovation 06

Global challenges, issues and solutions.
11th International Conference
23rd– 24th October 2006
Stuart Graduate School of Business
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago
USA

Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences

Organised by:
The Centre for Sustainable Design
In Association with:
The Center for Sustainable Enterprise , Stuart Graduate School of Business

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

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 - 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 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 global 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 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 ?

Conference Fees
Below is the information on conference fees.

Business/Consultants/Govt.
- Day 1 or 2: £178.00 (€260.00, $309.00)
- Both Days: £356.00 (€520.00, $618.00)
Academic/NGOs
- Day 1or 2: £153.00 (€223.00, $266.00)
- Both Days: £306.00 (€447.00, $531.00)
Speakers: 'refereed papers'
- Day 1or 2: £128.00 (€187.00, $222.00)
- Both Days: £256.00 (€374.00, $444.00)
Conference Dinner
- £25.00 (€ 37.10, $47.60)
Exhibition Space
- £500.00 (€729.00, $869.00)

Payments to be made in UK pounds

The fees include a Carbon Credit of £6.00 (€8.00, $10.00) designed to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by the conference

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.

Contributor Guidelines downloadable word doc
Contributor Guidelines - Paper example downloadable word doc

Venue
Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams Street
Chicago
Illinois 60661
USA

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For more information on Sustainable Innovation 06 please contact:
Professor Martin Charter Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design
University for the Creative Arts at Farnham
Falkner Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS
Tel: + 44 (0) 1252 892772
Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747
Email: mcharter@surrart.ac.uk
Website: www.cfsd.org.uk

TSPD11 is organised by:

Strategic Partner:

IIT Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology