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The concept of circular water value and its role in the design and implementation of circular desalination projects. The case of coal mines in Poland

Xevgenos, Dimitris (author), Tourkodimitri, K. Panteleaki (author), Mortou, M. (author), Mitko, K. (author), Sapoutzi, D. (author), Stroutza, D.E. (author), Turek, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)

Circular economy has become a popular subject, attracting attention from academics, practitioners, and policy-makers alike. However, despite the excitement surrounding it, the concept of circular economy has been criticized for being vague and having multiple interpretations from different fields. As a result, there is a lack of evidence and...

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A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age

The book is organized into three distinct parts. The first part focuses on data-driven digital technologies and delves into how their capabilities can facilitate the transition to a circular built environment. Essential aspects such as building information modeling (BIM), digital twins, geographical information systems (GIS), scanning...

book 2024

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Initiating a Minimum Viable Ecosystem for Circularity

Konietzko, Jan (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Bocken, Nancy (author), Ritala, Paavo (author)

To achieve a transformation toward the circular economy, organizations need to take an ecosystem perspective and consider multiple complementary actors that are needed to deliver circularity as a collective outcome. However, practitioners and scholars lack an understanding of the initial phases of ecosystem creation, in terms of how to get...

book chapter 2024

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Infrastructure as a Service: An analysis of the circular effectiveness

Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Teigiserová, D.A. (author), Noppers, Frederike (author)

This is the English report for the first academic study into the Infrastructure As a Service (IAAS) business model as part of the De Circulaire Weg partnerprogram. This research asks the question: Under what conditions does the applied As a Service model on infrastructure lead or not to a higher level of circularity and lower or equal life cycle...

report 2023

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L'Internet of Things per la transizione circolare nel settore delle facciate

Giovanardi, Matteo (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Pollo, Riccardo (author), Klein, T. (author)

In the façade sector, the ecological and circular transition requires the adoption of new business models that exploit the value of the material as much as possible. In this context, the Internet of Things (IoT) is identified as a potential innovation driver for the widespread use of circular approaches. The aim of the paper is to clarify the...

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Simulating industrial symbiosis: Understanding and shaping circular business models for viable and robust industrial symbiosis networks through collaborative modelling and simulation

Lange, K.P.H. (author)

The European Commission aims for a full circular economy (CE), an economy that aims to reuse all resources in 2050. CE is a promising way to increase welfare and wellbeing while decreasing environmental footprints. Industrial symbiosis, in which companies exchange residuals for resource efficiency, is essential to the circular transition....

doctoral thesis 2022

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The role of industrial actors in the circular economy for critical raw materials: a framework with case studies across a range of industries

Cimprich, Alexander (author), Schrijvers, Dieuwertje (author), Ku, Anthony Y. (author), Hagelüken, Christian (author), Christmann, Patrice (author), Eggert, Roderick (author), Hirohata, Atsufumi (author), Peck, David (author), Hool, Alessandra (author)

In this article, we explore concrete examples of circularity strategies for critical raw materials (CRMs) in commercial settings. We propose a company-level framework for systematically evaluating circularity strategies (e.g., material recycling, product reuse, and product or component lifetime extension) in specific applications of CRMs from...

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Circular Strategies Enabled by the Internet of Things: Opportunities, Implementation Challenges, and Environmental Impact

Ingemarsdotter, E.K. (author)

The concept of a ‘Circular Economy’ (CE) has been gaining traction in business, policy, and academia. It envisions an economy powered by renewable energy in which the value of products and materials are preserved for as long as possible. ‘Design for Circular Economy’ is emerging as a research field as well as a branch of sustainable design...

doctoral thesis 2021

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Circular Digital Built Environment: An Emerging Framework

Çetin, Sultan (author), De Wolf, C.E.L. (author), Bocken, Nancy (author)

Digital technologies are considered to be an essential enabler of the circular economy in various industries. However, to date, very few studies have investigated which digital technologies could enable the circular economy in the built environment. This study specifically focuses on the built environment as one of the largest, most energy- and...

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A process model for collaboration in circular oriented innovation

Brown, P.D. (author), Von Daniels, C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

Circular oriented innovation commonly requires collaboration. Yet, to date, circular research lacks empirical investigation into collaborative processes. Collaborative processes are, however, highly researched within strategic management literature, thus offering valuable insights. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, identify and...

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Circulair Succes Canvas

Veldhuis, J.H. (author), Bos, R.M.H. (author), Potemans, A. (author), Leclercq, E.M. (author), Kraaijeveld, Jasper (author)

Uit verschillende onderzoeken blijkt dat de architect een belangrijke rol vervult bij de totstandkoming van circulaire bouwprojecten. Tijdens de ontwerpfase worden immers keuzes gemaakt die het wel of niet circulair zijn van een bouwproject grotendeels bepalen (Galle et al,2018; Osmani et al, 2008). Toch heeft de helft van de architectenbureaus...

other 2020

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Archetypical CBMs in Construction and a Translation to Industrialized Manufacture

Heesbeen, C. (author), Prieto Hoces, A.I. (author)

The circular economy is a widely accepted concept that various governments have started to adopt. Still, a major consumer of resources, the construction industry, struggles to implement business models that answer to the opportunity and generate value beyond economical. At the same time, the industry is at a threshold of intensifying their...

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How do companies collaborate for circular oriented innovation?

Brown, P.D. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

Collaborative innovation is necessary to explore and implement circular economy strategies. Yet, empirical investigations into such collaborations are scarce. It is unclear whether the circular context creates differences or represents adaptions within how collaborative innovation is conducted. We draw upon strategic management and open...

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Digitalised product-service systems: Effects on consumers’ attitudes and experiences

Tunn, V.S.C. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)

Access-based product-service systems (AB-PSS) allow consumers to use products for a fee and might support the transition towards a circular economy. This type of business model could decrease negative impacts of consumption by reducing the number of products needed; either by extending products’ lifetimes or by intensifying the use of...

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Circular Business Models: Building a Database of Case Studie

Vergara d'Alençon, L.M. (author), Arkesteijn, M.H. (author), Azcarate Aguerre, J.F. (author), den Heijer, A.C. (author), Klein, T. (author)

report 2019

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A review and evaluation of circular business model innovation tools

Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Strupeit, Lars (author), Whalen, Katherine (author), Nußholz, Julia (author)

The circular economy has been heralded as a potential driver for sustainable development by business, academia, and policymakers. In a future circular economy, new business models are needed that slow, close and narrow resource loops to address key resource and climate challenges. After a phase of excitement and inspiration, an...

review 2019

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Circular economy and real estate: the legal (im)possibilities of operational lease

Ploeger, H.D. (author), Prins, M. (author), Straub, A. (author), Van den Brink, Robert (author)

Purpose: A paradigm in circular economy (CE) is that suppliers retain ownership of their products and materials, and that the users “only” pay for services. In many legal systems, however, elements incorporated in a building are considered to be fixtures, and therefore legally part of the building. This means that ensuring multi-cyclic...

journal article 2019

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Design for Managing Obsolescence: A Design Methodology for Preserving Product Integrity in a Circular Economy

den Hollander, M.C. (author)

This thesis argues that in order to increase the likelihood that product lifetime extension in a circular economy will be successful from both an environmental and an economic perspective, industrial designers need to be able to control not only the spatial dimension (materialization and geometry) of products, but also their temporal dimension....

doctoral thesis 2018

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Pay-per-use business models as a driver for sustainable consumption: Evidence from the case of HOMIE

Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Bom, Colin A. (author), Lemstra, Hidde-Jan (author)

Pay-per-use business models where consumers pay for the unit of service (e.g. a wash) without gaining product ownership are often linked to increased environmental performance. Consumers would become more conscious about consumption patterns and companies would take responsibility for product life cycle issues. Such benefits can only be achieved...

journal article 2018

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The Circular Economy: A new sustainability paradigm?

Geißdörfer, M. (author), Savaget, Paulo (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Hultink, H.J. (author)

While the terms Circular Economy and sustainability are increasingly gaining traction with academia, industry, and policymakers, the similarities and differences between both concepts remain ambiguous. The relationship between the concepts is not made explicit in literature, which is blurring their conceptual contours and constrains the...

journal article 2017