Hackathons as a company – University collaboration tool to boost circularity innovations and digitalization enhanced sustainability

Happonen, Ari; Minashkina, Daria; Nolte, Alexander; Angarita, Maria Angelica Medina

doi:10.1063/5.0001883

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“…Considering the findings, research can e.g., offer new know-how for digital design process tools and support mass customization considerations; companies might have with the newest business models [50,51]. And considering the newest technologies, also innovation seeding options like collaborative hackathons [34,36,43], capstone courses [39] and digital citizen science solutions [55] should be given a tough, as these methods have also shown productivity [40] sustainability context. The research can also push newest technologies like Artificial Intelligence [52,53] and industry 4.0 technologies [22] to forms that help companies produce new circularity and sustainability enhancing products and services.…”

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Digital age business model innovation for sustainability in University Industry Collaboration Model

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This study aims to investigate a digitalization-related business model as a result from the university-SME collaboration. The SME of the case study (Preventos Informatics Ltd) specializes in water distribution systems in industrial scale, telemetry, and sensor data-based monitoring of the water distribution. The business model of the company is a result of an innovation process during 2016-2017. The SME was established 2018. This study examines the commercialization process’s success factors and compares the original business model to the finally implemented one after two years. The study reviews the current literature of sustainable business models and digitalization and reflects the results from this study. Based on the results, by quantifying the sustainability, environmental aspects and digitalization, value added can be brought to the business model. Our study suggests that by adding more digitalization, sensor technologies, and dataanalysis, quantifying the real value of innovations is possible.

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“…• private waste processing companies • sustainability calculations consultation companies • municipalities Also, to speed up the software system and solution development efforts, authors would like to suggest trust [50] and knowledge sharing based industry-university collaboration models. For example models like hackathons [44][45][46], capstone courses [47], front-end innovation process formalization methods [51], plus digital citizen science [55] and community-based monitoring programs [48] as solution options to boost the design of environmentally more sustainable solutions [59].…”

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State of the art preliminary literature review: Sustainability and waste reporting capabilities in management systems

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2020

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Inspired by previous studies research gap findings and limitations in management system functions to produce sustainabilityrelated reporting authors set a goal to map the current academic literature in the context of waste management systems. The method chosen for the work was a systematic literature review, focusing on the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The authors found a total of 115 unique publications from the selected databases, which were filtered 28 contributing studies. With these studies, this study found that most of the publications are journals and almost half of the work has been published in the last 3 years. Additionally, sustainability and waste management reporting related literature seem to enjoy wide appreciation among the peers, indicated by a high number of references these publications had gathered. As an overall finding, the specific research area of waste management process quantified data reporting seems really young overall and needs additional research with multiple research gaps clearly waiting for follow-up research to pinpoint the specific areas to contribute in the near future.

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“…Based on previous highly productive collaboration activities within university -company cross section with hackathon like approaches [57,58] using these to challenge WMS function development for sustainability direction seems a great possibility for both the WMS developers and for the 3PL operators and their customers too. Especially when considering some of the academic findings, related on sustainability enhancing hackathons [59].…”

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Decarbonizing warehousing activities through digitalization and automatization with WMS integration for sustainability supporting operations

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2020

E3S Web Conf.

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The current strong outsourcing trend dictates that the efficiency of outsourced warehousing is a big contributing impact factor for the carbon footprint from supply chains. A good warehouse management system boosts warehousing eco-friendliest by reducing space waste and unnecessary number of material movements, to ensure continuous fast materials flow and to keep the heating and cooling costs to a minimum. All this may happen on some lengths inside the traditional manual warehousing scenes, but in fact, if the highest level of efficiency is wanted/needed, the operator shall need to automate, digitalize and robotize their operations. Authors presents an example of automation in the warehousing context, where the warehouse operator is capable of turning around an order line as an outgoing packet, even in high peak load times under 3h time period. This sort of efficiency means less needed storage space as items stay less time in the warehouse and such automatization also gives the 3PLs possibility to store materials in high rising automated systems like automated storage and retrieval systems to optimize their space usage. All combined, the future warehouse operations can make a positive impact on efforts to reduce overall CO₂ emissions made by supply chains.

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Hackathons as a company – University collaboration tool to boost circularity innovations and digitalization enhanced sustainability

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

Digital age business model innovation for sustainability in University Industry Collaboration Model

Digital age business model innovation for sustainability in University Industry Collaboration Model

State of the art preliminary literature review: Sustainability and waste reporting capabilities in management systems

Decarbonizing warehousing activities through digitalization and automatization with WMS integration for sustainability supporting operations

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