Glossary
Sustainable design and eco-innovation: how do you find your way around this chapter?

Eco-design

Integration of environmental aspects into product design and development with the aim of reducing negative environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle (ISO 14006:2011).

Eco-innovation

Innovation focused primarily on environmental aspects, but incorporating economic and social aspects, which significantly improves the overall sustainable performance of a product throughout its life cycle and at a high systemic level. The significance of the improvement is highly dependent on the context in which the eco-innovation process is applied (definition proposed by the EcoSD network in 2013).