The innovative software system "myEcoCost" enables to gather and communicate resource and environmental data for products and services in global value chains. The system has been developed in the consortium of the European research project myEcoCost and forms a basis of a new, highly automated...

Die Studie "Living Labs für nachhaltige Entwicklung" untersucht das Potenzial der deutschen Forschungslandschaft für nutzerintegrierende Produkt- und Dienstleistungsinnovationen. Sie zeigt auf, dass Living Labs mit zunehmender Mensch-Technik-Interaktion eine wichtige Rolle für nachhaltige...

Our perception of design is changing, for design today is no longer concerned only with aesthetics. Now the key factors are interdisciplinary competence and approaches to problem solving. Both politicians as well as businesses recognise design's hybridity and increasingly implement it as a...

Sustainable production and the sustainable use of biotic resources have become increasingly significant. This results in the demand by society for a sustainable use of biotic resources especially within the nutrition sector. But also their use for industrial purposes had led research and...