LCA as a Tool for Assessing Product and Process Oriented Eco-Innovations Undertaken by Enterprises

Rybaczewska-Błażejowska, Magdalena; Sulerz, Aleksandra

doi:10.1515/mper-2017-0029

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“…This is, though, a harmonised multi-impact category method at midpoint and endpoint level that allows complex LCIA analyses. The hierarchist (H) perspective was chosen, based on the assumption that the environmental damages are reversible, if proper policy and technological changes are introduced [37].…”

Section: Life Cycle Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Management and Production Engineering Review

Rybaczewska-Błażejowska¹,

Nieto²

2020

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transition to circular economy requires diversifying material sources, improving secondary raw materials management, including recycling, and finally finding sustainable alternative materials. Both recycled and bio-based plastics are often regarded as promising alternatives to conventional fossil-based plastics. Their broad application instead of fossilbased plastics is, however, frequently the subject of criticism because of offering limited environmental benefits. The study presents a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of fossil-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) versus its recycled and bio-based counterparts. The system boundary covers the plastics manufacturing and end-of-life plastic management stages (cradle-to-cradle/grave variant). Based on the data and assumptions set out in the research, recycled PET (rPET) demonstrates the best environmental profile out of the evaluated plastics in all impact categories. The study contributes to circular economy in plastics by providing transparent and consistent knowledge on their environmental portfolio.

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Section: Life Cycle Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Management and Production Engineering Review

Rybaczewska-Błażejowska¹,

Nieto²

2020

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“…The majority of the identified eco-innovation tools focus at the product level. Some examples of eco-innovation tools at the product level includes: creativity and ideation [37][38][39][40][41][42], Life Cycle Assessment and environmental evaluation [43,44], ecodesign [45][46][47][48], material selection [49] and biomimetic design [50]). In total, 13 tools linked with the company level were identified.…”

Section: Tools For Measuring the Eco-innovation Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Readiness of SMEs for Eco-Innovation and Industrial Symbiosis: Development of a Screening Tool

2018

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Despite the high business, innovation and sustainability potential linked with eco-innovation and industrial symbiosis, limited implementation can be observed in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In order to enhance the implementation of these concepts in SMEs, the main goal of this paper is to propose a screening tool to identify and evaluate SMEs’ potential for eco-innovation, with a special focus on industrial symbiosis and green business models aspects. In order to accomplish this goal, an action research was developed in two cycles: (1) development and testing of the screening prototype; and (2) improvement and scale-up of the enhanced screening tool, in close collaboration with the research partners. In addition to enabling a better understanding about their own internal processes and activities, the evaluation of the potential of 108 SMEs for eco-innovation provided them with detailed insights about how to reach the potential benefits with industrial symbiosis and green business models. Differently from the identified existing tools, the screening tool proposed in this research aims at supporting companies to understand what their potential for eco-innovation is, combining wider eco-innovation and industrial symbiosis opportunities and green business models, supplemented with a readiness evaluation to explore the existing potential.

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Leading Trends in Innovative Development – Identification using Marketing Research

Kaczmarska¹,

Gierulski²

2022

Wseas Transactions on Business and Economics

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Access to information has become extremely easy these days. Hence the common belief that we have established an information society in which knowledge is treated as the greatest wealth and which at the same time constitutes the basis for innovative development of enterprises, countries, regions. The paper presents identification of the leading areas of innovative technological development using marketing research. This allows the main objective to be fulfilled, which is to help choose the directions of research. . The source of data was the international exhibition of inventions held annually in Geneva, treated here as a case study. The research covered exhibitions held in 2017 and 2019, for which over 500 presented new solutions were classified each time. The results were confronted with a national event gathering inventors – the Polish National Student-Inventor Competition. Every year, approximately 100 solutions are submitted to the competition and then evaluated.

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LCA as a Tool for Assessing Product and Process Oriented Eco-Innovations Undertaken by Enterprises

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Management and Production Engineering Review

Management and Production Engineering Review

Measuring the Readiness of SMEs for Eco-Innovation and Industrial Symbiosis: Development of a Screening Tool

Leading Trends in Innovative Development – Identification using Marketing Research

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