Business models and services
One aim of the funding programme was to enable new business models that went beyond existing approaches and increased the commercial benefits of circular value creation. Circularity was intended to serve as a fundamental design principle rather than merely improving isolated parts of a linear model.
Guiding questions covered product-service systems that extend product life, the commercial benefits of circular products, quantifying the benefits of R-strategies, involving SMEs in data ecosystems at an early stage, and creating incentives and business models for shared data use while protecting intellectual property.
Key questions
Without viable business models, technically sound circular solutions remain isolated. So companies, and SMEs in particular, face these questions:
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How can innovative and competitive business models support the transition?
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How can product-service systems and intelligent services extend product life?
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What is needed to involve SMEs, share data and scale successful business models?
Project examples
Funded projects related to this topic.
MeWEco
Reusable ecosystem for packaging
Reusable ecosystem for reusable packaging systems.
