Designing support for manufacturing SMEs approaching ecodesign and cleaner production - Learning from UK survey results
Designing support for manufacturing SMEs approaching ecodesign and cleaner production - Learning from UK survey results
Proponents of ecodesign and cleaner production have had mixed success in penetrating small and medium sized manufacturing companies in the UK. Existing schemes, such as Envirowise and EnviroINNOVATE in the West Midlands, typically rely on external funding and leave a gap in provision for deeper intervention in smaller companies. Design criteria for effective support of these smaller manufacturers are presented based on an understanding of drivers, barriers and enablers for cleaner manufacturing from four surveys of UK SMEs. This contributes to strategies for enhancing eco-product innovation and cleaner production in SMEs; part of an ongoing project at Warwick Manufacturing Group.
Barriers, Cleaner production, Drivers, Ecodesign, Environmental, Manufacturing, SME, Survey
281-286
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Woolman, Tim
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Veshagh, Alireza
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31 May 2006
Woolman, Tim
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Veshagh, Alireza
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Woolman, Tim and Veshagh, Alireza
(2006)
Designing support for manufacturing SMEs approaching ecodesign and cleaner production - Learning from UK survey results.
In Proceedings of the 13th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2006.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Proponents of ecodesign and cleaner production have had mixed success in penetrating small and medium sized manufacturing companies in the UK. Existing schemes, such as Envirowise and EnviroINNOVATE in the West Midlands, typically rely on external funding and leave a gap in provision for deeper intervention in smaller companies. Design criteria for effective support of these smaller manufacturers are presented based on an understanding of drivers, barriers and enablers for cleaner manufacturing from four surveys of UK SMEs. This contributes to strategies for enhancing eco-product innovation and cleaner production in SMEs; part of an ongoing project at Warwick Manufacturing Group.
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Published date: 31 May 2006
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13th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2006, , Leuven, Belgium, 2006-05-03 - 2006-06-02
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Barriers, Cleaner production, Drivers, Ecodesign, Environmental, Manufacturing, SME, Survey
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Tim Woolman
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Alireza Veshagh
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