Special issue: Innovative concepts in the perspective of maximising the utilisation rate and value of durable goods

International Journal of Product Development 6(3/4) 2008

• Innovative approaches to optimising design and use of durable consumer goods
• Product sustainability: organisational considerations
• Localisation and the design and production of sustainable products
• Conceptual model on replacement behaviour
• Incentives and frameworks for increasing the capital value, service value and use rates of durable goods
• Total performance analysis of product life cycle considering the deterioration and obsolescence of product value
• Technology-driven product platform development
• Remanufacturing and product design
• Eco-labelling and product development: potentials and experiences
• New academic research topics to further ecodesign implementation: an overview
• New technologies for active disassembly: using the shape memory effect in engineering polymers
• Profile of products enduring quality over long periods as strategic factor to increase their utilisation rate