Published Article / Sustainable development is the key issue for enabling the survival of human culture. Product development is sometimes seen as conflicting with the aims of sustainable development. This comes from a twofold impact: the production of new goods exploits scarce resources, and their use creates additional resource consumption and potential disparity. However, innovation and product development are important means to fulfil the needs of present and future generations and to achieve sustainable development. In this context, we must also consider the development of service products - classical services and product - related ones creating surplus value from physical products.
The contribution of product development to sustainability will depend on the way sustainability issues are integrated into the development process. An important focus is on the early phases of product development and especially on the process of requirements analysis since this integrates all sustainability role players as potential stakeholders.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:cut/oai:ir.cut.ac.za:11462/569 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Holzbaur, U.D. |
| Contributors | Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein |
| Publisher | Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 8, Issue 3: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | 4 130 524 bytes, 1 file, Application/PDF |
| Rights | Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein |
| Relation | Journal for New Generation Sciences;Vol 8, Issue 3 |
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