Handbook of the Circular Economy

lt;p>Dr Allen Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the University of Exeter. He is a senior researcher investigating the role that knowledge, capability and competence plays in enabling companies and public sector organisations to be more innovative. In particular his interests lie in how universities and public research organisations can embrace the open innovation imperative. He holds a number of international research grants, speaks regularly in the UK and Europe and is an active member of a number of high profile academic networks focusing on innovation. He is also a visiting Research Fellow of the Centre for Leading Innovation & Co-operation at HHL Graduate School of Management, Germany.

He was elected to the Advisory & Development Board of the International Society for Innovation Management in 2012, is the Chair of a Special Interest Group (SIG) on 'Transferring Knowledge for Innovation' and is an Editor of a further SIG for the European Academy of Management (EURAM) on 'Innovation into the Future'.

Prior to joining the Business School in 2011 Allen held responsibility for key elements of the Research & Knowledge Transfer activity at the University including: EU Research, Contract Research, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Consultancy, Intellectual Property, Commercialisation (including Spin Outs and Subsidiaries) and External Funding. Before this Allen spent 10 years managing large scale construction and infrastructure projects around the south of England. Educated as a Civil Engineer, Allen is a Member of the Association for Project Management, Member of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Allen is co-author with Olga Kokshagina of 'The Radical Innovation Playbook' which will be published by De Gruyter in October 2020.

Professor Stefano Pascucci is Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy at the University of Exeter. He is an applied economist who developed an interest for sustainability as connected to organisation theories, innovation management, and value chain analysis. His research focuses on agribusiness, sustainability and circular economy. He is particularly concerned about how to analyse the interplay between sustainability, collaborative (open) innovation and value chain configurations.

Prior to joining the University of Exeter Business School, in September 2016, Stefano Pascucci was an associate professor in innovation and organization of agribusiness at the Management Studies Group of Wageningen University (NL). From 2009-2011 he has been post-doc Marie Curie Fellow at the Agricultural Economics group of Wageningen University. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Policy from University of Naples Federico II (IT).

Stefano Pascucci is also visiting research at the Management Studies Group of Wageningen University (NL). He has published, among others, in the European Review of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, Journal of Business Ethics and Agricultural Systems. Stefano serves as member of the editorial board of the British Food Journal. He is member of the Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy and alumnus of the Ronald Coase Institute.

Professor Fiona Charnley is Associate Professor of Circular Economy and Co-Director Exeter Centre for the Circular Economy at the University of Exeter. She joined Exeter Business School in May 2019 after working for eight years at Cranfield University as a Senior Lecturer in Circular Innovation. Fiona has a background in Industrial Design and has established herself as a thought leader in the Circular Economy, working at the interfaces of Design, Innovation and Manufacture.

Fiona is an investigator on a number of research grants including the EPSRC funded projects 'Circular4.0: Data-Driven Intelligence for a Circular Economy', 'Small is Beautifu

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Foreword

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

The circular economy: landscape, dimensions and definitions

Stefano Pascucci, Allen Alexander, Fiona Charnley & Jessica Fishburn

Part I-Introducing transformation

Introduced by Allen Alexander

1 Walter Stahel on envisioning circular systems, lifecycles and products

2 Ken Webster on framing potential circular economies

3 Kate Raworth on creating regenerative and distributive economies by design

4 Frances Wall on virgin resources, scarcity and circularity

5 Hugo Spowers on transforming established industrial trajectories with a circular business strategy

6 Andy Rees OBE on waste, re-use, recycling and the power of positive governance

7 Ladeja Godina Kosir on transformation of people and the power of networks

Part II-The state of transition

Introduced by Stefano Pascucci

8 Circular design in practice: eight levers for change - Merryn Haines-Gadd, Fiona Charnley & Conny Bakker

9 Biomimicry and the Circular Economy - Saskia van den Muijsenberg

10 The transformational power of circular Innovation - Daniel Guzzo, Janaina Mascarenhas & Allen Alexander

11 Three lenses on circular business model innovation - Paavo Ritala, Nancy Bocken & Jan Konietzko

12 Finance and accounting in the circular economy - Aglaia Fischer, Diane Zandee & Marleen Janssen Groesbeek

13 Circular economy regulation: An emerging research agenda - David Monciardini, Eléonore Maitre-Ekern, Carl Dalhammar & Rosalind Malcolm

14 Circular society activism: prefigurative communities in everyday circular economy action - Steffen Böhm, Chia-Hao Ho, Helen Holmes, Constantine Manolchev, Malte Rödl, Wouter Spekkink

15 Circular economy jobs: Risks and opportunities in the labour market - Esther Goodwin Brown, Marijana Novak, Constantine Manolchev, Sharon Gil & Esteban Munoz

16 Resources, waste and a systemic approach to circular economy - Fenna Blomsma & Geraldine Brennan

17 Plastic futures: mobilising circular economy contexts to addressing the plastic crisis - Marta Ferri, Alison Stowell & Gail Whiteman

18 Aesthetic engagement: material practices of organising towards regenerative futures - Kim Poldner & Domenico Dentoni

Part III-Industrial Vignettes exploring industry transition

Introduced by Fiona Charnley

19 BAM Bamboo Clothing

20 Winnow Solutions Ltd

21 Riversimple

22 Rype Office

23 Elvis & Kresse

24 Circularity Capital

25 Teemill

26 Forest Green Rovers

27 Grover

28 ReStore Project

29 PackShare

30 Lendwithcare

31 Páramo

32 Circular & Co

33 Terragr'eau

34 LUSH Cosmetics

35 Shark Solutions

36 gDiapers

37 Ricoh

38 Riverford Organics

39 Oxwash

40 Triodos Bank

41 Co Cars

42 Oddbox

43 Fairphone

44 Ooho from Notpla

45 Repair Café

46 Gerrard Street

47 Patagonia

48 Whirli

List of figures

List of tables

Index

"This work effectively and engagingly responds to the increasing interest and demand for real-world circular economy transition applications and insights, presenting consolidated critical perspectives, linkages, and examples in an accessible and intelligent format. This is a resource that circular economy educators and practitioners have been waiting for!"
Dr Jennifer Russell, Virginia Tech, USA