Innovation opportunities focusing design for sustainability: an ecodesign strategy wheel application

Abstract

Abstract:The use of laptops computers is increasing and this model surpassed the desktop computer as the most popular of the personal computer market. On the extended use situations, the laptop can causes ergonomic issues, and the use of an adjustable table is demanded to raise the screen to the user eye-line height in order to alleviate this problem. The manufacturing of the laptop stand causes environmental impact, still requiring the production of other complementary peripherals for the stand to be effective. this paper describes a simplified LCA -Life Cycle Assessment linked to an ESW -Ecodesign Strategy Wheel method application highlighted a great opportunity of innovation during the evaluation of the manufacturing process of the UpTable portable laptop stand, providing solutions for both the ergonomic issue and the environmental sustainability. Proposed manufacturing process eliminates the peripherals redundancy and promotes economy of supplies with no prejudice to the portability that characterizes the device, reducing the environmental impact during the manufacturing process, utilization and discharge of the product.

Sustainable forest management: analysis of eco-innovation process in Amazon

“…Many studies have investigated eco-innovation from different points of view, such as life cycle assessment (Ferreira et al, 2017), eco-innovative and non-ecoinnovative companies in Spain (Scarpellini et al, 2018), green product development processes, and small and medium-sized companies in Brazil (Medeiros et al, 2018), green and non-green innovations (Liu et al, 2019), green innovation with financial activities in multinationals (Rezende et al, 2019), and green technology innovations (Du et al, 2019).…”