A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products
life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity …

It is accepted that the effective uptake of academic research into policy and practice requires
the active involvement of stakeholders. However, understanding participation from the …

A number of research frameworks have been developed for studying sociotechnical
transitions. These are complex phenomena, particularly those involving multi-system …

To meet a wide range of customer needs, a variety of product concepts can be modeled
employing a platform approach. Whereas frequent market changes can be accommodated …

Simulation is likely to become a prominent method of theory development. Futures studies
have used simulation in different ways such as evaluating scenarios. Nonetheless, the …

The modern world is characterized by problems that involve systems with social and
physical subsystems. They are entangled systems of system of systems with multilevel …

The overall objective of this research was to effectively link the activities/decisions at product
development (micro-innovation) level in companies with the transformation which needs to …

In product family design (PFD), deciding on a platform design strategy can be viewed as a
multidisciplinary optimization problem that involves several factors, such as design …

Policy design is a new area of inquiry that takes the methods and traditions of design into the
world of social, economic and environmental policy. Even though they may not know it …

With the rise of place-based planning, neighbourhood character (and its variants such as
'urban character','place character','local character','town character','preferred character', etc.) …