Dematerialisation of products and manufacturing-generated knowledge content: relationship through paradigms
研究了工业产品随时间推移物质使用减少（非物质化）与知识内容之间的关系，通过两个指标量化趋势，分析产品生命周期中的变化。
Dematerialisation refers to the decline, over time, of material usage in industrial products. The subject of this paper is to identify the relationship between the material and knowledge content of several products. The issue is whether the knowledge content, through time, will be affecting the products, in terms of dematerialisation. Specifically, a study has been conducted on widely used products in order to determine the way they have changed through their life-timeline. Two different indicators have been introduced for the quantification of the trend, in terms of material and knowledge content.