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1 Mazzucato, M.; European Commission. Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. 2018. Mission-oriented research and innovation in the European Union: a problem-solving approach to fuel innovation-led growth. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. 30p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2777/360325]
Research projects ; Innovation policies ; European Union ; Research policies ; Applied research ; Experimentation ; Problem solving ; Stakeholders ; Public participation ; Implementation ; Economic growth ; Public health ; Strategies ; Social aspects ; Oceans
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https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf
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2 Bauwens, T.; Hekkert, M.; Kirchherr, J. 2020. Circular futures: what will they look like? Ecological Economics, 175:106703. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106703]
Business models ; Sustainability ; Economic aspects ; Environmental impact ; Governance ; Technology ; Innovation policies ; Political aspects ; Decision making ; Local communities
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049826)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180091931972X/pdfft?md5=eb03d41ebb129b2a4c3792f62f53fa00&pid=1-s2.0-S092180091931972X-main.pdf
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The circular economy is argued to hold great promise for achieving sustainability. Yet, there is a dearth of research about what a circular future may look like. To address this gap, this paper proposes different plausible scenarios for a circular future, using a 2 × 2 scenario matrix method developed through a thought experiment and a focus group. Key drivers of change in this matrix are the nature of technologies deployed – high-tech or low-tech innovations – and the configuration of the governance regime – centralized or decentralized. From this, our paper builds four scenario narratives for the future of a circular economy: “planned circularity”, “bottom-up sufficiency”, “circular modernism”, and “peer-to-peer circularity”. It delineates the core characteristics and the upsides and downsides of each scenario. It shows that a circular economy can be organized in very contrasting ways. By generating insights about alternative circular futures, these scenarios may provide a clearer directionality to policy-makers and businesses, helping them both anticipate and understand the consequences of a paradigm shift towards a circular economy and shape policies and strategies, especially in the context of so-called mission-oriented innovation policies. They may also provide a sound basis for quantitatively modelling the impacts of a circular economy.
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