Ecodesign as a New Lever to Enhance the Global Value Proposition: From Space to Corporate

Abstract

AbstractAs our technology-driven society is facing new environmental challenges, more and more companies’ key decision-makers are committing to limit the impact of their products and services on the environment. While ecodesign approaches have shown the potential to increase companies’ global value proposition, the integration of environmental parameters at an early stage of the design process will only be possible if such approach is tailored to a specific sector and customer expectations. To support environmental experts in charge of organizing the integration of such approach in the design process of complex engineering systems, VITO retrospectively analysed a project initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), from a product strategy perspective. A transposable and replicable action-step methodology facilitating the creation of a common language and enabling the translation of environmental commitments into functional requirements is resulting.