Circular Economy Innovation: How to develop circular business models

Overview and introduction

• The strategic framework: Why do we need a sustainable circular economy?
• Science, politics and competition: What limits determine economic activity.
• Sustainability and resilience: building sustainability capabilities.

The path from the linear to the circular value chain

• Analyze material and value streams.
• Circular principles and their application.
• Exercise on the development of circular business models.

Innovation of business models: Measurability and profitability

• The benefits of prototypes, experiments and pilot projects for business models.
• Calculate sustainable business models with the "Sustainable Finance Prototyper".
• Run through scenarios for circular strategies with estimated values ("Streamlined Life Cycle Analysis").

The development of ecosystems

• Understanding and analyzing systems.
• Case studies for modern industrial ecosystems.
• Approaches to solving the Scope 3 problem.

Concretization through a Circular Opportunity Assessment

• Assess the degree of circularity of the value chain of an own product.
• Develop initial ideas for circular economy initiatives with opportunity cards.
• Derive concrete initial activities.