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Sustainable product innovation : entrepreneurship for human well-being / by Dariush Rafinejad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rafinejad, Dariush, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New products--Environmental aspects.
- New products.
- Sustainable design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Plantation, FL : J. Ross Publishing, [2017]
- Summary:
- This important book illuminates sustainability challenges facing our global society in the 21st century. It makes a well supported business case for sustainable product development and delineates why human well-being must become the overarching goal of new technology and product development. This unique text presents a holistic systems approach for achieving multi-stakeholder optimization in product lifecycle design in order to meet a firm's objectives, investors' return-on-investment expectations, and regulatory requirements, while protecting the environment and rapidly depleting natural resources needed to enhance and sustain human well-being. Supported by cases, questions and exercises, and instructor materials, it is designed to be used in business, engineering and management science degree, and certificate programs, and professional training, and by entrepreneurs and executives responsible for the creation, development, and commercialization of product and services
- Contents:
- The sustainability challenge
- Transition toward sustainable development and business strategy
- Sustainability frameworks and industrial ecology
- Life-cycle assessment
- Technology and product strategy
- The product development and commercialization process
- User-inspired innovation and design thinking : user-need research
- Design for excellence and sustainability
- Design for end-of-life management : a zero-waste strategy
- Public policy and building inherent safety by design
- Sustainability standards and product ratings
- Decision analysis and modeling in product development : system dynamics modeling
- Return on investment : intellectual property protection.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5231-3772-X
- 1-60427-788-2
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