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Institution: Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Focus Area:Product design and management
Expertise: Cross-disciplinary focus bringing together business, design and engineering.
Key projects:
1. A cross-disciplinary Masters course covers the schools of thought behind a circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature., the business and economic case for a transition and drills down to the applications at a product design and management level.
2. Inter-disciplinary collaborations across various institutes at the university, including environmental management, polymer technologies and innovation management, contribute to circular research and teaching.
Connect with: Dr. Erik Hansen to find out more about the MA and other related circular economy work at JKU - erik.hansen@jku.at
Find out more: Institute for Integrated Quality Design
Founded in October 2015, the Institute for Integrated Quality Design (IQD) is an interdisciplinary research institute located the intersection of the management and engineering programmes at JKU.
