Purpose Over the last few decades, more emphasis has been placed on those innovations
that can reconcile economic, social and environmental goals in order to achieve a “win-win …

The material substitution (MS) is a very effective eco-design strategy for reducing the
environmental impacts in a product, albeit its application can be hindered because of the …

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of how much the application of the main TRIZ
(Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) strategies resulted in an …

Contradictions caused by the various design constraints present increasing challenges to
efficiency and innovation in product development. TRIZ provides Inventive Principles (IPs) …

Environmental considerations are emerging as stimuli for innovation during the eco-design
ideation process. Integrating TRIZ (Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch─ Theory of …

Despite the high business, innovation and sustainability potential linked with eco-innovation
and industrial symbiosis, limited implementation can be observed in small and medium …

In order to increase their competitiveness, companies need to have five important
capabilities in the product development process, namely, the ability to identify important …

This paper proposes a set of Eco-guidelines for supporting designers in developing new
greener products and processes. The first requirement that a guideline should have is to be …

Product conceptual design plays a decisive role in carbon emission of the products.
Unfortunately, the traditional design methods based on carbon footprint calculation are not …

Over the last years, good strategies for efficient manufacturing were considered increasing
the volume of production and reducing the time and costs. Emerging design strategies as …