Circular sPrint Playbook

The Working Future: An Analysis of Skills Needed by Circular Startups

“…In order to inform, inspire, and engage the wider population on the potential of the circular economy in general, and of circular business models in particular, a wide array of educational tools exist. Examples include Serious Games (Manshoven and Gillabel, 2021;Roba et al, 2021;Whalen et al, 2018), Hackatons (Puttonen et al, 2022), and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) (Peck et al, 2020). An example is given by Kirchherr and Piscicelli (2019) who describe a course given to undergraduates to introduce the CE concept.…”

Startups and Circular Economy Strategies: Profile Differences, Barriers and Enablers

“…Earlier quantative research on business incubators that support startups suggests that sustainability challenges may be at the root of finding new technology-driven sustainable value propositions (Cirule and Uvarova, 2022). Therefore, it is important for both policy makers and supporting ecosystems to take into account relevant differences and specificities, and look into the development of tailer-made regulations (Amin et al, 2022;Ilyassova et al, 2021), supporting mechanisms (Campbell-Johnston et al, 2019;Millette et al, 2020;Versluys et al, 2021), business experimentation techniques (Aagaard et al, 2021;Bocken et al, 2019), and toolkits (Manshoven and Gillabel, 2021;Puttonen et al, 2022).…”