Design a baby "Stroller" for families of migrant workers in China

This graduation project is proposed by the author and conducted in collaboration with Dorel Netherlands. As one of the leading companies worldwide in juvenile products industry, Dorel wants to take its social responsibility by committing to the well being of babies and young children living in a BOP (Bottom of the pyramid) situation. The purpose...

Strategic Design Framework towards sustained reduction of residential electricity consumption in Emerging Market Economies: The case of Brazil and China

Energy is considered by the United Nations as central to sustainable development and poverty reduction affecting all its aspects - social, economic, and environmental - including livelihoods, access to water, agricultural productivity, health, population levels, education, and gender-related issues. As such, energy can be seen as a positive...

The design of a sustainable fence for Heras

Background: The emerging ‘green’ economy lets Heras, Dutch market leader in outside security, respond by re-considering its position in the market. To remain market leader, a company should invest in innovation to be one step ahead of the competition, in this case by implementing sustainability. Results: Field research, a life cycle assessment...

A strategic focus on sustainable product innovation tool development for Vietnamese SMEs

A lot of different tools and methods for strategic product development are being used used in the West. Companies cannot exist without doing a sufficient ammount of marketing and branding activities. Customer needs are explored on a daily basis and brands are developing itself to extent from the broad range of companies offering similar services...

Solar Docking Station: Bringing sustainable off-grid lighting to the BoP of Cameroon

The ‘Ndassie SDS’ is a centralized, solar powered energy station, aimed at rural communities in Cameroon, where there is very limited or no access to the electric grid. It offers a safer, healthier, more affordable, and high quality alternative to the Kerosene lamps that are still commonly being used in these regions. The system consists of the...

Design of a low power television for rural Cambodia

In this master thesis, a television is designed which re-uses second hand LCD screens from discarded monitors, forming a high quality, low cost, low power LCD television. It is specifically designed for rural Cambodia, where people normally use a car battery as a power supply. Conventional color televisions draw a lot of power; with this...

Solar public lighting, a sustainable business model for South Africa

Solar public lighting is an attractive way to provide public lighting in South Africa. This report presents the development of a sustainable way to do business for Philips in this new market. The business does not damage or deplete economic, social and eco-environmental resources. The Philips Light4Life business model addresses municipalities'...

Design a Branding and Communication Platform for the Sustainable Dance Club

This project is meant to design a brand and communication platform for SDC to build a proper brand image and increase the awareness of the Sustainable Dance Floor as well as the brand SDC, by means of communicating a right brand essence and providing a better user experience to the target group.

Solar lantern rental scheme in rural Cambodia

Approximately one million households in rural Cambodia still use kerosene lamps. The use of a kerosene lamp has a lot of disadvantages: It provides very poor light quality, is difficult in use and poses a fire and health risk. A substitute for kerosene light can be found in the provision of lighting through solar powered lanterns. A solar...

Innovation support needs of sustainability driven small firms: Studies within the Ecomind project

Traditional approaches to sustainable consumption and production emphasized addressing issues related to the natural environment and sustainability through optimising existing products, processes and businesses. Even though it is suggested that young and new firms have advantages in innovation, there are few studies that address exploiting...

Design of a Sustainable Bamboo Toy for Preschool Children

This project is performed for Tre Vang Company, a small scale bamboo factory in Vietnam, with the great love for the nature by producing bamboo products and creating employment with production of fair trade for the Western market. The market of bamboo products in Western market is gradually growing due to the increasing awareness of...

A Strategy to Automate the Monitoring Process of Small Scale CDM Biogas Projects

This project was carried out in cooperation with TNO for ICCO and Fair Climate Fund (FCF). ICCO and FCF approached TNO to help them develop a low cost automated monitoring system to simplify and standardise the labour intensive monitoring process followed by one of their partner NGO in India. Currently the cost for periodic monitoring of small...

The Dream Greenhouse for Chinese Growers

The original goal of this project is to design a win-win solution: boosting Chinese growers’ businesses, by matching their needs with Dutch know-how, then naturally establishing potential market in China for Dutch horticulture technology companies, for instance, Codema. After early research and 2-month field research, the researcher discovered...

Designing a business model for the Ndassie Solar Powered LED light Product Service System

This thesis shows the iterative design process of developing a business model (BM) for Ndassie. This start up company offers decentralized, renewable energy solutions to people that lack access to the electricity grid. The main market will be rural areas in developing countries, which is part of the ‘Base of Pyramid’ market. This target group...

Design of a Luxury Tent Line: For enhancing nature experience and increasing environmental awareness

This project is conducted on behalf of Esprite Nomade, based in Bali, Indonesia. Esprite Nomade is a design studio, designing luxury travel and lifestyle products for wealthy travelers and luxury hotels. The company wants to stabilize its position in the market, and become a more profitable company. Therefore a new luxury tent line should be...

How to accelerate access automatic to washing for low-income people in India?

This project is executed for the Procter & Gamble Company. P&G sees huge potentials in the developing market of India. The detergent market is one of these big potentials; the Indian detergent consumption per capita is very low compared to other countries. Most washing nowadays is done by hand due to cultural and infrastructural reasons. Hand...

Accelerating the Access to Automatic Washing for Low Income Market in India

Today there are more than 4 billion people in the world who still wash their clothes manually, using a time consuming and backbreaking process. Majority of these are from the low income but emerging markets like India. A wide range of washing machines of different machine manufacturers already exist in this market; But there are many...