Sustainability-Driven Innovation Flashcards
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Which technique asks innovators to imagine a future where sustainability goals have been fully achieved, then work backward to identify required changes?
Answer: Backcasting
Backcasting starts from a desired sustainable future state and works backward to determine the policy and innovation steps needed to reach it.
A manufacturer eliminates toxic adhesives from its product so that components can be separated and recycled more easily. Which design principle does this exemplify?
Answer: Design for disassembly
Design for disassembly ensures products can be easily taken apart at end-of-life, enabling recovery and recycling of materials.
What is a 'living lab' in the context of sustainability innovation?
Answer: A real-world environment where sustainable solutions are co-created and tested with users
A living lab is an open innovation ecosystem that uses real-life settings to co-design, test, and iterate sustainable solutions with end-users.
The concept of 'avoided emissions' is most directly relevant to which type of business opportunity?
Answer: Companies whose products help customers reduce their own emissions
Avoided emissions represent the positive climate impact a product creates by enabling customers to emit less than they otherwise would, a key metric for green product value propositions.
Which certification standard is specifically designed to verify that a business meets rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency?
Answer: B Corp Certification
B Corp Certification assesses a company's entire social and environmental impact across governance, workers, community, environment, and customers.
An innovator uses 'material flow analysis' during product development. What is the primary output of this analysis?
Answer: A quantitative accounting of how materials enter, move through, and leave a system
Material flow analysis quantifies the stocks and flows of materials within a defined system boundary, revealing inefficiencies and waste streams.
Which business model innovation allows customers to return used products to the manufacturer in exchange for credit toward new purchases, enabling material recovery?
Answer: Take-back or reverse logistics program
Take-back programs create reverse logistics channels that allow manufacturers to reclaim materials and components, closing the loop in circular economy systems.