Possible difficulties and hold-ups which
may arise when dealing with ecodesign


The methodological tools developed until now turn out to be hard to implement in SME. They are often concepts developed and run by big companies, because of investments (material, human, and technological) required.

The searches for, competitive, technological, normative or environmental information, are very often neglected.

The SME do not always get their own research department.

Environmental regulation looks dense and complexe.

Environment is frequently seen as source of supplementary pecuniary, human and technological constraints, than as source of opportunities to develop new products.

The SME. Because of constraints evoked above, create and commercialize products without optimizing their design.

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