Catalysts and Dynamics

CICAT2025 seeks to identify catalysts that advance transition from innovation ecosystems to business ecosystems in circular economy. We are interested in catalysts that are related to technological, business, organizing and management, regulation, sustainbility policy, language and visual communication. As a result, we seek to create a systemic understanding of the ways by which different catalysts work together to advance circular economy.

 

Customer-perceived value in the circular economy: A multidimensional framework

 The aim of our research was to find out, how the circular economy redefines business customers' perceptions of value and how well supplier companies understand these perceptions. We conducted a......

Project-based practices for promoting a sustainability transition in a city organization and its urban context

 We studied a project that was working on urban circular economy to initiate sustainability change in a city. We present longitudinal participatory action research on the activities of a project......

Lifecycle extension of single-use medical device sensors: Case study of an engineering sustainability transition program

 We describe the processes and verification testing of a medical device engineering team (the authors) performed during their first sustainability transition project on a commercialized, single......