Print Email Facebook Twitter Product-Service System Design Approach for the Base of the Pyramid Markets: Practical Evidence from the Energy Sector in the Brazilian Context Title Product-Service System Design Approach for the Base of the Pyramid Markets: Practical Evidence from the Energy Sector in the Brazilian Context Author Da Costa Junior, J. Diehl, J.C. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2013-12-31 Abstract In Emerging Markets, the product-service system (PSS) design approach may represent a promising solution as a socially and environmentally sound path to economic development. In addition, the energy sector has a major role for the social-economic development and is central to poverty alleviation. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the challenges of increasing the well-being of the lowincome population by means of proposing functional systems of products and services for the energy sector with an emphasis on achieving more sustainable results. The research adopts an exploratory approach, it is qualitative in nature and it is composed of two main stages; a literature review and literature based analysis of case studies. As a result, this research outlines the potentials of designing product-services systems for BoP Markets. Subject product-service systembase of the pyramidemerging marketsenergy sector To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e15403e3-df67-431a-9cc6-dc8a2fe8b57b Publisher Technische Universität Berlin ISBN 978-3-7983-2499-2 Source MPDES 2013 - Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply: Proceedings of the International Conference, Berlin, Germany, 28 February-1 March 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 298525.pdf 216.15 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e15403e3-df67-431a-9cc6-dc8a2fe8b57b/datastream/OBJ/view