• DocumentCode
    1658381
  • Title

    Ecodesign and Sustainable Business Practice: Insights from design-led SMEs in Wales (UK)

  • Author

    O´Connor, Frank ; Cox, Lain

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Centre for Product Design & Dev. Res., Univ. of Wales Inst., Cardiff
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    This paper outlines some key lessons for industry uncovered in a study carried out by Design Wales into how two Welsh small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are rising to the challenge of ecodesign and sustainable business practice
  • Keywords
    design for environment; small-to-medium enterprises; sustainable development; SME; UK; Wales; ecodesign; small-to-medium-sized enterprises; sustainable business practice; Ash; Assembly; Clothing; Companies; Government; Manufacturing; Organic materials; Product design; Samarium; Visualization; SMEs; ecodesign; interviews; sustainable business practice;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0081-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619160
  • Filename
    1619160