Ivo Dewit obtained his PhD in Product Development on the topic of "the synthesis approach". He developed a methodology and toolbox to design product–service systems and is one of the founders of the Belgian chapter of the international Service Design Network. Since a pursuit of a postdoctoral position in September 2020, Ivo Dewit has been involved in academic research, teaching, and acting as principal investigator for the Department of Product Development in the Design Sciences Hub with a multidisciplinary, co-creative, and systemic perspective.