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Building retrofit product innovation

On 7 October CSEI small call winner Dr Kate Simpson presented at our seminar series - Building retrofit product innovation: Identifying trends using patent and policy data

This collaboration aims to better understand trends in eco-innovation in building retrofit technologies and the drivers for those trends. The insight is derived from the European Patent Office database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) database.

Biography:

Kate is a research associate on the  project, within the  on the  Programme at , based between the Dyson School of Design Engineering and the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation (CSEI). She is Principal Investigator on a project identifying eco-innovation in the building retrofit sector using patent mining, funded by the CSEI. Kate’s  from the  on low-rise dwelling retrofit combined methods to understand the retrofit experience plus the measured and modelled impact of energy demand, indoor environment and building performance. Kate initially worked as a building surveyor and now has experience in both technical and social research relating to , ,  and  at ,  and the . Kate is actively engaged with the retrofit sector, particulalrly micro to small businesses, citizens, local authorities and policy makers.

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