Towards sustainability? Forest-based circular bioeconomy business models in Finnish SMEs
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In this paper, the authors employed content analysis on interview data gathered from managers in Finnish SME companies from the field of packaging, textiles, composite materials, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.About:
This article is published in Forest Policy and Economics.The article was published on 2020-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 167 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Business model & Circular economy.read more
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The circular bioeconomy : Its elements and role in European bioeconomy clusters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the term circular bioeconomy via a literature review and analyze the concept's role in north-west European bio economy clusters through interviews, identifying strategies regarding the clusters' feedstock and product focus, and investigate what role biorefineries, circular solutions, recycling and cascading play.
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How the combination of Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 can contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Thales Eduardo Tavares Dantas,E.D. de-Souza,I.R. Destro,Gabriela Hammes,Carlos Rodríguez,Sebastião Roberto Soares +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a systematic literature review to identify how the CE-I4.0 nexus, the combination of CE practices and Industry 4.0 technologies, could contribute to achieving the SDG.
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Lignocellulosic biomass based biorefinery: A successful platform towards circular bioeconomy
J. Rajesh Banu,Preethi,S. Kavitha,Vinay Kumar Tyagi,M. Gunasekaran,Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan,Gopalakrishnan Kumar +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the three key research areas that required more attentions, they are; (a) valorization of lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose into value added products, (b) integrated biorefinery approach and process optimization; and (c) circular bioeconomy and its future perspective.
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Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review
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Circular business models: Current aspects that influence implementation and unaddressed subjects
Rodrigo B. Salvador,Murillo Vetroni Barros,Leila Mendes da Luz,Cassiano Moro Piekarski,Antonio Carlos de Francisco +4 more
TL;DR: This paper’s aim is to identify researchers, topics of highlight and journals housing research on Circular Business Models worldwide, identify the main aspects that influencecircular Business Model implementation, and point the unaddressed subjects in the existing literature on Circ circular Business Models.
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