Maj Munch Andersen Editor

Dr Arnold Tukker joined TNO in 1990 after some time working for the Dutch Environment Ministry. Over time, his focus shifted from life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis and risk assessment to interactive policy-making and sustainable system innovation and transition management. In 1998 he published a book on societal disputes on toxic substances, for which he was awarded a PhD from Tilburg University. He has published about 40 peer-reviewed papers, 5 books, 10 book chapters and 150 other publications, and is frequently asked as invited speaker worldwide. In his career, he has been awarded over ac;15 million in mainly international research grants. He currently manages the research programme on Transitions and System Innovation within TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Business Unit Innovation and Environment. This programme was evaluated as one of TNO's top-ranking programmes during the 2006 scientific assessment exercise. Arnold is the initiator and manager of the SCORE! network. Martin Charter is the Director and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at The Centre for Sustainable Design at the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester, UK. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. He is the author, editor and joint editor of various books and publications including Greener Marketing (Greenleaf Publishing, 1992 and 1999), The Green Management Gurus [e-book] (1996), Managing Eco-design (Centre for Sustainable Design, 1997) and Sustainable Solutions (Greenleaf Publishing, 2001). Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School in the UK, and has interests in sustainable product design, green(er) marketing, and creativity and innovation. For 15 years Carlo Vezzoli has been researching and teaching design scenarios, strategies, methods and tools for products, services and systems for sustainability. At the Faculty of Design of the Politecnico di Milano he is a professor of Product Design for Environmental Sustainability and of System Design for Sustainability, and director of the Research Unit Design and System Innovation for Sustainability (DIS, INDACO) department. Among other projects, he is coordinator of the international Learning Network on Sustainability (LENS), of curricula development on Design for Sustainability focused on product-service system innovation, funded by the Asia Link Programme, European Commission. Eivind Sto is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Norway. He gained a Mag.art. in political science from the University of Oslo in 1972. He was an assistant at the Norwegian Election Programme from 1972 to 1976; and from 1976 to 1998 he worked for the Norwegian Fund for Market and Distribution Research. Since 1989, he has been a researcher at SIFO, as Head of Research from 1990, and Director of Research from 1998. He has initiated, participated and coordinated several European projects. His research interests include consumer complaints, consumer policy, sustainable consumption, energy use and nanotechnology. Maj Munch Andersen is a senior scientist at DTU, Denmark, the Danish Technical University. Her work focuses on innovation studies, particularly within eco-innovation processes and nanotechnology, both at the firm, inter-firm, technology and innovation system level. She has a special interest in the analysis of environmental and innovation policy and the relationship between the two. She has previously worked at the Copenhagen Business School as well as spending four years on innovation policy within the Danish Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Danish Ministry of Science where she was responsible for developing a green innovation strategy.