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Sustainable Product-Service Systems

Between Strategic Design and Transition Studies

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Fabrizio Ceschin

    1. School of Engineering & Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

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  • Combines and integrates two different research streams: the product-service system innovation and the transition studies
  • Helps to clarify how socio-technical experiments should be designed in order to trigger the societal embedding of sustainable product-service systems
  • Uses several cases from industry to exemplify and enrich the text
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

Part of the book sub series: PoliMI SpringerBriefs (BRIEFSPOLIMI)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Transition Towards Sustainability: The Need of Radical Innovations

    • Fabrizio Ceschin
    Pages 1-15

  3. Product-Service System Innovation: A Promising Approach to Sustainability

    • Fabrizio Ceschin
    Pages 17-40

  4. Introducing and Scaling Up Sustainable Product-Service Systems: Insights from Transition Studies

    • Fabrizio Ceschin
    Pages 41-80

  5. Towards a New Way of Designing and Managing the Societal Embedding of Sustainable Product-Service System

    • Fabrizio Ceschin
    Pages 81-116

  6. Where Do We Go from Here?

    • Fabrizio Ceschin
    Pages 117-122
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This book investigates the potential contribution that a strategic design approach can make to stimulating and supporting the societal embedding of sustainable PSSs (product-service systems). A new strategic design role thus emerges; a role in which the ideation and development of sustainable PSS concepts is coupled with the designing of appropriate transition paths (sequence of socio-technical experiments) to gradually incubate, introduce and diffuse these concepts. The book also outlines the new design approach and capabilities needed by strategic designers, project managers and consultants to operate at such a strategic level. On a more operational point of view, the work presents a practical “how to do” design process and associated guidelines to support practitioners in designing and managing the societal embedding process of sustainable PSS innovations.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Engineering & Design, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

    Fabrizio Ceschin

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