The Post-Graduation Program on Production Engineering of Universidade Paulista-UNIP and the Advances in Cleaner Production Network (ACPN), represented by the coordinators of the Workshop "INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THEORY, TRENDS, AND OPPORTUNITY AREAS", is extremely grateful to professor Fernando Díaz López (Netherlands Organisation for applied Scientific Research - TNO) for his kind participation and valuable contribution.

Thank you the all the participants and to TNO, INNO4SD and ABEPRO who have made this event possible.

We also are sincerely grateful to the staff and partners of Universidade Paulista for the aid.

Special thanks are addressed to Dr. Yugo Okida, the Vice-Rector of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, Dr. Marília Ancona-Lopez, the Vice-Rector of Graduation of Universidade Paulista, and to Dr. Marina Soligo, Main Coordinator of Post Graduation and Research of Universidade Paulista, for their unconditional support.

Biagio F. Giannetti
Cecilia M.V.B. Almeida
Feni D. Agostinho

Workshop Coordinators