The Circular Enterprise

Abstract

The circular economy challenges business firms to adopt principles of sustainability by closing, narrowing, extending the loop of resources, in order to minimize impact on the planet. Firm embracing circularity principles have to innovate not only products and processes, but primarily models of business. Also they need to include suppliers and customers in their model, as well as any relevant stakeholder, developing eco-systemic business models. The challenge of implementing circular business models encompasses both established and larger organizations and younger ventures (born circular firms).

Space Economy, Innovation and Sustainability

“…Particularly, EO, with global spatial coverage and high frequency of observations, plays an essential role in monitoring targets and helping stakeholders make informed decisions, by capturing important aspects of sustainable development and in particular the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as grand challenges for the planet (Zucchella & Urban, 2020). Some of the specific applications of EO are forecasting weather, monitoring natural disasters and the health of ecosystems, communities and citizens, EO data informs, locates and provides context for research and policy-making including achieving sustainable societies.…”