Circular Economy and Digital Technologies: A Review of the Current Research Streams

Trevisan, Adriana Hofmann; Zacharias, Isabela Simões; Liu, Qinglan; Yang, Miying; Mascarenhas, Janaina

doi:10.1017/pds.2021.62

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“…The M2 is associated with using a platform by various actors in the ecosystem, which facilitates and drives cooperation among actors (Konietzko, Bocken and Hultink, 2020;Ma et al, 2018;Vosman et al, 2021). The use of platforms and other digital technologies is also an essential point in the strengthening of CE (Trevisan et al, 2021a;Lobo et al, 2021). Moreover, M3 is related to lending production equipment to implement necessary processes (carton packages recycling and ecological tiles manufacture).…”

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Motivations Behind Actors’ Cooperation in Circular Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review and a Brazilian Case Study

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The circular economy (CE) aims at the cycling of resources through restorative and regenerative strategies. To achieve circularity, coordination of several actors is necessary. The interaction among actors allows the connection between the CE and ecosystem research fields. Although fundamental, the relationships, mainly cooperation, among actors within an ecosystem to foster circularity is not deeply explored in the literature. The objective of this study was to identify the possibilities of cooperation within circular ecosystems, in particular, the motivations that make the actors interact to achieve a CE. A systematic literature review (SLR) and a case study of a Brazilian ecosystem specialized in the recycling of carton packages to manufacture ecological tiles were conducted. The goal was to identify the motivations through the SLR and the case study so the theoretical and the empirical results could be compared. As a result, 28 motivations for actors to engage in ecosystems driven by circularity were identified. In order to achieve a complete and circular solution, actors must be able to clearly understand their roles and relationships so that they can establish new partnerships or reframe those already established.

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“…Riesener et al (2019) investigate how the transformation can occur and present recommendations for manufacturing companies on how digitalization can shift toward the circular economy principles. The transformation to the circular economy with the help of digital transformation occurs through three stages: micro-, meso-, and macro-levels (Trevisan et al, 2021). At the level of a single company, that is, micro-level, the circular economy is a business model innovation and processes related to monitoring, controlling, optimization, and automation (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014;Nasiri et al, 2017;Ingemarsdotter et al, 2019;Pieroni et al, 2019;Neligan et al, 2022).…”

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“…This study contributes to one of the three research areas identified by Trevisan et al (2021) by focusing on the link between the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the circular economy. The importance of digital transformation in guiding the shift toward a circular economy is understood as the location problem of sectors characterized by HDI.…”

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“…Riesener et al (2019), Kristoffersen et al (2020), Xue L. et al (2022 and Jensen (2022) are highlighted the role of digitalization in circular economy without any regional development or specialization analysis, since Scott (2013) and Östh et al 2015) are talking about the regional resilience, both beeing aproached by our study. Trevisan et al (2021) reviewed 40 articles classified on three dimensions: digital transformation (DT), circular economy (CE) and sustainability, and a gap identified were "Empirical evidence about the benefits of DT for CE." The present study addressed this gap and also the regional resilience, part of the sustainability, measuring the technological and geographical resilience.…”

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Mapping European high-digital intensive sectors—regional growth accelerator for the circular economy

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Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 act as shocks on regional labor markets and regional economies. The presence of a digital economy has high spillover effects on regional development, job creation, economic resilience, and sustainability; furthermore, it valuates eco-innovation and the clean economy. We believe that the process of digital transformation has a robust impact on the green and clean aspects of the entire economy. The consistency of high digital-intensive (HDI) sectors can be evaluated through high digital-intensive employment, human resources, and technological infrastructure, as these are the main pillars of digital transformation. The shift-share analysis method (SSM) is used in this study on employment growth during 2008–2018 for the EU27, the United Kingdom, and Norway, combined with a second stage of exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA). The findings on national growth, industrial mix, and competitiveness are presented in GIS mapping system considering the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) technique at the NUTS2 level. This approach allows us to determine the clustering level of high digital-intensive employment and sectors, resilience based on connectivity and eco-innovation, and the regional potential of digital transformation. Policymakers and political or governmental decision-makers could consider the results of the present study as the starting point for developing and implementing their policies for a sustainable green regional economy and determine the emerging area patches that need to be stimulated.

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“…IoT and big data have been regarded as one of the promising tools to improve environmental sustainability and promote CE [49,50]. IoT has been applied for environmental monitoring in farming, domestic waste treatment, air quality, and urban CO 2 [51].…”

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Digitalisation for Water Sustainability: Barriers to Implementing Circular Economy in Smart Water Management

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2021

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“Clean water and sanitation” is listed as one of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and implementing circular economy principles in the water sector has been widely regarded as an important approach in achieving this goal. In the era of Industry 4.0, research and practice in the digitalisation of the water sector to create a smart water system have attracted increasing attention. Despite the growing interest, limited research has been devoted to how digital technologies might enhance circularity. In practice, smart water systems often fail to promote circularity in such aspects as water reuse and resources recovery. This paper aims to identify the main barriers to implementing circularity in the smart water management system in Zhejiang, China. The research adopts a mixed research method that includes a literature review to identify the potential barriers from the existing studies, a case study to determine the most critical barriers in practice, and a fuzzy Delphi method to reach a consensus on the crucial barriers. The research identified 22 main barriers to implementing circular economy in smart water management. The barriers are divided into three categories: infrastructure and economic, technology, and institution and governance. The results show that the barriers related to recycling technologies, digital technology know-how, and the lack of CE awareness raise the most concern. Our findings also indicate that experts are interested in the decentralized wastewater treatment system. This research provides significant insights that practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can use in developing and implementing digital-based CE strategies to reduce water scarcity and pollution.

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Circular Economy and Digital Technologies: A Review of the Current Research Streams

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Motivations Behind Actors’ Cooperation in Circular Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review and a Brazilian Case Study

Motivations Behind Actors’ Cooperation in Circular Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review and a Brazilian Case Study

Mapping European high-digital intensive sectors—regional growth accelerator for the circular economy

Digitalisation for Water Sustainability: Barriers to Implementing Circular Economy in Smart Water Management

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