- Intro to the circular economy
- Combining multiple perspectives to create circular value
- Circular business modeling
- Examples and tools
Hosted by Wim Van Opstal (VITO)
1. 3D-printing to foster circular design
CIRCULAR SPRINT
Business Models for a Circular
Economy
2. Overview lecture
- Intro to the circular economy
- Combining multiple perspectives to create circular value
- Circular business modeling
- Examples and tools
- Q & A
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What is a Circular Economy?
Take Make Use Waste
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What is a Circular Economy?
Take Make Use Waste
Recycle
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What is a Circular Economy?
Take Make Use Waste
Repair
Reuse
Recycle
Remanufacture
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What is a Circular Economy?
A circular economy is an economic system where
products and services are traded in closed loops or ‘cycles’.
It is regenerative by design, with the aim to create and
retain as much economic and societal value as possible of
products, parts and materials.
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• Save costs (recovered resources)
• Access new markets (re-use)
• Create resilience to shocks (suppliers, resources)
• Build strong relationships (customers, partners)
• Compliance
• Future proof company value (investments, talent)
It’s not just about ‘doing good’
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Results from a survey taken by VITO and ‘Vlaanderen Circulair’ in May/June 2020.
Number of respondents: 540
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Considering multiple perspectives to create circular value
Business ecosystems
Business models
Products or
services
Circular value creation
What do you do to
increase circularity?
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Strong value proposition
How do you convince
your customers?
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Circular Value network
How and with who
do you cooperate?
26. Circular value by design is useless if you can’t
deliver it to the customer
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“The core logic of how a company creates, delivers, and captures value”
(Osterwalder & Pigneur)
What is a business model?
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“The core logic of how a company creates, delivers, captures
and retains economic and societal value”
(adaption of Osterwalder & Pigneur)
What is a circular business model?
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Product-Service System (PSS)
Asset sharing
Cost reduction
On demand
Branding: eco / premium
Business models
Products
or services
Circular Value Proposition
Product-oriented
Use-oriented
Result-oriented
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Circular Value proposition: aligning interests
Incentives and value transactions:
Reputation transfer
Data access
Positive feelings / doing the right thing
Monetary kickbacks
New market access
Valorization of waste and side streams
Business models
Products
or services
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Take back management
Platform
Industrial symbiose
Value chain collaboration
Value network collaboration
Localisation
Business ecosystems
Business models
Products
or services
Circular Value Network
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Take back management
Platform
Industrial symbiose
Value chain collaboration
Value network collaboration
Localisation
Business ecosystems
Business models
Products
or services
Circular Value Network
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• Rebound effect:
• Increased efficiency/productivity Lower prices Higher consumption
• Path dependency and lock-in
• Returns to scale and learning effects Survival of the first
• Mind switch costs!
• Strategic interaction
• Coordination Game:
• It requires coordinated action to switch towards a new standard
• Prisoner’s Dilemma:
• Suboptimal outcome because every player has an incentive to deviate from the optimal outcome
• Coordinated action is not sufficient
• Even more important when some parties have market power
• Perverse effects
• Asymmetric information
• Cobra effect
On incentives
50. Business Model Canvas – a tool to structure your assumptions
Value Proposition
Value
Delivery
Value Creation
Value
Capture
51. Where is the Circular in your Business Model?
Value Proposition
Value Delivery
Value Creation
Value Capture
Is circularity part of your value proposition?
What is the impact on the other stakeholders?
What circular activity do you do?
And/or do your partners do?
Are you currently missing partners?
How do you get your solution to your customer?
Logistics offset circular environmental gains!
Keep an eye on sustainability of delivery
What will be your revenue model? Who pays for what?
What will be your main costs?
What is the environmental value that your business model creates?
Can you capture this value?
53. So how do you start designing for a circular
future?
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• Map your current system (value chain mapping)
• What are the circular opportunities?
• Which steps currently loose value? What are the hotspots?
• What (new) consumer needs can we address? Service, functionality, …
• What is the impact on suppliers / partners / customers? How do we get them to cooperate?
• Define, prototype and test a circular value proposition
• Construct the business model (e.g. Business Model Canvas)
Steps to take
57. Strategy Baseline? Why (not)? Target?
Company value Customer value Supplier value Stakeholder / Societal value
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Recycle
Remanufacture
Reuse
Repair
Optimal product
use
Resource
efficiency
Substitution
Circular product design strategies Case:
58. Strategy Baseline? Why (not)? Target?
Company value Customer value Supplier value Stakeholder / Societal value
+ - + - + - Who? + -
Recycle
Improve
recyclability
Extra
costs
Recycler
Extra
revenue
Remanufacture
Reuse
Repair
Optimal product
use
Extend
product
lifetime
Sell less
Resource
efficiency
Substitution
Circular product design strategies Case:
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• Try out one (or more) of the following exercises:
• Value chain mapping: map your current system
• Hot spot identification (MS Excel)
• CE scan (MS Excel)
• Value Proposition Canvas (pains/gains analysis)
• Product design strategies
• Q & A
Exercise