Conference paper Gold Open Access 2025

A Potential Model to Support the Assessment and Introduction of Circular Economy in Sustainable Product Development

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Nolte, Bastian
 WJ
Wendt, Jana
 SS
Sommer, Sebastian
 ZV
Zorn, Victoria
 KS
Kauffeld, Simone
 VT
Vietor, Thomas
Procedia CIRP
Conference · Vol. 136 · pp. 973-978
Abstract

Product development plays a key role in sustainability, as it sets the course early on for costs, quality, timing, and aspects such as product architecture, materials, and lifespan. This paper presents a potential model that is designed taking into account psychological insights in change management to not only enable product developers to identify areas with the greatest potentials but also to encourage them to take actions to promote circular economy and sustainable product development. © 2025 The Authors.

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Author Keywords

"Circular Economy EcoDesign Potential Model Product Development Rethink Sustainability"

Index Keywords

Circular economy Sustainable development Sustainable development goals Life cycle Ecodesign "circular economy Potential modeling Product architecture Product lifespan Product materials Psychological insights Rethink Sustainability" Sustainable product development Product development
Author Affiliations
Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany
Institute for Engineering Design, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
Funding & Acknowledgements
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF
Grant: 02L22C100
Sections of the research presented in this contribution are part of the project KREIS funded by the German edF eral Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the \"The uF ture of Value Creation - Research on Production, Services and Work\" program (funding number 02L22C100) and managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The authors are responsible for the content of this publication.
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