Print Email Facebook Twitter A business model framework for product life extension Title A business model framework for product life extension Author Den Hollander, M.C. Bakker, C.A. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2012-10-29 Abstract Product life extension is an increase in the utilization period of products. Design research on product life extension strategies has so far mainly focused on technical aspects of products, like ‘prevention engineering’ or ‘design for repair, maintenance and upgradability’, and on individual consumer-product relationships, like ‘design for emotional durability’. The viability of product life extension in a business context and the associated consequences for product design, have however remained largely unexplored. In this paper a starting point is provided for this exploration, by outlining the development of a business model framework for product life extension, using strategies for product life extension and mapping these against common elements of contemporary business model theory. Drawing on case studies, examples are used to show how the framework can be used in practice by designers and business developers. Subject business modelproduct life extensionstrategyproduct designresource use To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0ce994d-e402-44ef-8bed-10c922542d77 Source 17th International Conference Sustainable Innovation 2012, Bonn, Germany, 29-30 October 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s) Files PDF 301597.pdf 1.15 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e0ce994d-e402-44ef-8bed-10c922542d77/datastream/OBJ/view