What is European Concept? European Concept is a community of companies, people and research organizations who want to be (pro-)

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What is European Concept?

European Concept is a community of companies, people and research organizations who want to be (pro-) active in innovating products/services and process design in today’s sustainability focused environment and globalized markets.


Premises and assumptions• Successful companies are able to identify and fulfill new users’ needs:

– Creating solutions at the cutting edge of technology– Integrating existing value propositions with new innovative opportunities

• Innovation is the key– To drive market segmentation and face market polarization– To face cost-based competition from emerging countries

• Successful companies place users at the center– The ultimate aim is to satisfy the final customer / consumer– Offer innovative and articulated value propositions that integrate advanced

services and tangible goods.– Involve suppliers and customers in the product design process to achieve

sustainable competitive advantage


Focus: Customer needs• New business models for detecting and

managing new, undiscovered customer needs– Enabling structured methodologies versus intuitive

and creative– Integrated networked design versus individual design

• Make the classical product offering approach evolve into a modern product/service vision – product/service integrated design– product/service lifecycle management– sustainability


• Innovating along the entire life-cycle of products based on users’ needs

Sustainable Product/Service

• New Product/service Innovation approach, focusing on Value propositions:

– Moving from a collective approach to product/service design based on real (individual) user needs (explicit, non explicit, indirectly connected)

– Application of new technologies and innovative services throughout the entire value added chain, identifying new modalities to satisfy users expectations.


Adding to existing• European industrial and entrepreneurial

network:– In relation to existing platforms (e.g. Manufuture) – In relation to initiatives having a European

relevance.• Link and make available existing data sources

and best practices on (sustainable) product/services development


Building blocks / topics1) Innovation through new business models2) Sustainable production best practices3) Development of intelligent knowledge-based systems4) Creation of specific data bases to be used by collaborative

networks of enterprises5) Integration of existing sources of information6) Management systems for collaborative networks aimed to

classify, store and share useful information7) Training and dissemination of the above listed results and

outputs within the European business community.


Interesting for whom?• Those who are interested in the topic of

continuous innovation of products and services.

• Those who are willing to contribute to the activities of the group (e.g. participation in meetings and workshops, where you present your ideas and needs etc).

• Those who are open for international collaboration, which may for instance include participation in EU-funded research and development projects.


Current SupportersADIRA Portugal

AKERS France France

ANGELANTONI INDUSTRIE S.P.A. Italy

AREVA France

ARJOWIGGINS FranceARTENGO (Groupe OXYLANE-DECATHLON) FranceASSOKNOWLEDGE ItalyBARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A. ItalyBONDUELLE FranceBOSCH PortugalBREMBO SPA ItalyBTICINO SPA ItalyCAETANOBUS PortugalCARTIF SpainCEI PortugalCENTRO RICERCHE FIAT ItalyCLAAS GermanyCONFINDUSTRIA BERGAMO ItalyCONFINDUSTRIA SIT ItalyCONTINENTAL GermanyCOSBERG SPA ItalyDALLARA AUTOMOBILI S.P.A. ItalyDATALOGIC AUTOMATION S.R.L. ItalyDeutsche Bahn GermanyECOLE POLITECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE SwitzerlandEFACEC Portugal

ENI CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ItalyERPC GmbH GermanyESSILOR FranceEUROVIA FranceFAMO PortugalFAURECIA FranceFIAT Group s.p.a. ItalyFIR, RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY GermanyFREZITE PortugalFROMAGERIES BEL FranceGESCO – GRUPPO AMADORI ItalyGROSFILLEX FranceIBM ITALIA S.P.A. ItalyILLY CAFFE’ S.P.A. ItalyINDESIT COMPANY S.P.A. ItalyINDO SpainINESC PORTO - IBEROMOLDES PortugalITIA - CNR ItalyKONE FinlandKONECRANES FinlandKPS ADVISING SRL ItalyKufferath GermanyLAFARGE FranceLIEBHERR AEROSPACE TOULOUSE (LTS) FranceMARTINI & ROSSI S.p.A. ItalyMECAPLAST FranceMV AGUSTA S.P.A. Italy

PERSICO SPA Italy

Philips Germany

PI3C France

POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy

POMEC S.C.A.R.L. Italy

PSI Germany

RENAULT France

SAINT GOBAIN France

SAME DEUTZ-FAHR GROUP SPA Italy

SCAGLIA INDEVA SPA Italy

Siemens Germany

SILAMPOS Portugal

SKF Germany

SKYLOGIC SPA Italy

SOLETANCHE BACHY France

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Finland

Telekom Germany

TMG Portugal

TNO Netherlands

TNT Germany

UNIVERSITA‘ DI BERGAMO Italy

VALEO France

VINCI-CONSTRUCTION France

VISTA ALEGRE ATLANTIS Portugal

Voith Germany

VOLKSWAGEN AG Germany

VTT Finland

Winergy Germany


Benefits?• To have the opportunity to exchange ideas and

best practice with Academic and Industrial leaders

• To develop your professional network and build collaborations with other innovative companies in the sustainable product/service industry in Europe

• To be given the means to influence the relevant R&D agenda of the EU

• To be continuously informed on actual opportunities for collaboration on innovative & sustainable product/service design opportunities

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What is European Concept? European Concept is a community of companies, people and research organizations who want to be (pro-)