Product innovation and Ecodesign

Products and services are nowadays subject to extensive requirements made by customers as well as stricter environmental legislation.
Customers prefer high-quality products with low operating costs and long lifespan. Producer responsibility is being extended by new laws to the whole product life cycle, i.e. even after the end of is life. Producers are therefore pressed to search for possibilities to innovate their products, anticipate probable risks that could "disqualify" them on the market and react to them timely.

Successful product innovation requires analysing the product in the context of its whole lifecycle. Such analyses often reveal hidden weaknesses and resources that can be used in the product design to decrease material and energy consumption in the phase of production and utilisation. 
 
Ecodesign is an approach that enables to search and use innovative potential of products with respect to its economic parametres, technical requirements a environmental impact.

70 - 80% of all environmental impacts of a product are defined by its design (construction) and they can be positively influenced already in the phase of product design, together with material consumption issues.

How to innovate a product with the use of Ecodesign?

Centre for Innovation and Development aims at supporting innovative activities of companies, especially in the area of continuous improvement of their environmental profile that has positive effects on competitiveness. 
Companies can use our expertise to carry out analyses of existing products or their concepts. These analyses are made for the whole life cycle of a product. They result in a survey of the most significant environmental impacts of a product/service and include suggestions for their reduction. These analyses are suitable for all kinds of products and most of the services.

The main objective of ecodesign is to improve environmental characteristics of products in their whole life cycle with preserving or upgrading the use value and reasonable costs.