
- Structure
- Business Risks and Problems
- Results Dissemination
- Success Stories/ Good Practices
- Consulting and Business Models
- Implementation
- Forum
The main addressed research topics are:
- strategic management (CE as a source of competitive advantages and added value, new organizational structures, new business opportunities and professional skills, ways to reduce risks);
- supply (redefine product design based on the “Supply creates its own demand” principle, the impact of marketing and communications on the demand for products/services, the role of SMEs in promoting the CE, the challenges of implementing CE);
- demand (customer attitude towards circular business models, barriers and factors towards sustainable consumer behavior, the role of digital technologies in the transition from product- to service-centered business models);
- networks (platforms for the creation of symbiotic relationships between stakeholders, technology and knowledge transfer, joint added value, etc.);
- performances (the economic, ecological and social impact of the application of CE on competitiveness, shareholders’ well-being, cost/benefit analysis and circularity in different industries, transition to CE monitoring instruments);
- context (the influence of the institutional/legislative framework on circular business models – from CE university curricula to SME profitability).
