Circular Entrepreneurship

Zucchella, Antonella; Urban, Sabine

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“…In this research circular start-ups (CSUs) are defined as new, independent and active companies pursuing a CBM (further detailed in section 2). Circular entrepreneurship is still a quite novel concept in scientific literature (Zucchella and Urban, 2019).…”

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A typology of circular start-ups: An Analysis of 128 circular business models

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Bauwens

Hekkert

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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The circular economy (CE) concept is much-heralded among policy-makers, scholars and industry professionals as an accelerated pathway towards sustainability. This move away from the dominant linear system where products are discarded at the end of product lifecycle is deemed necessary since it is the main cause of an accelerated resource consumption. Business models are considered as a key enabler for the shift from a linear to a CE. However, research on circular business models has mainly focused on circular approaches adopted by incumbent firms, while the contributions of newly established firms (the authors call these 'circular start-ups') have been largely overlooked. This article scrutinises the business models of circular start-ups and how they may differ from those of incumbent firms embracing CE. For this, it analyses the circular business model strategies and innovations adopted by circular start-ups, relying on a novel data sample of 128 circular start-ups identified in three major CE ecosystems in Europe: the Randstad region in the Netherlands, Berlin and London. Based on this data, a novel typology of circular start-ups is proposed, distinguishing between five circular start-up archetypes: design-based, waste-based, platform-based, service-based and nature-based start-ups. The results also show that circular start-ups tend to embrace strategies corresponding to higher levels of circularity than those of incumbents. This preliminarily suggests that circular start-ups can indeed make major contributions to transitioning towards CE.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A typology of circular start-ups: An Analysis of 128 circular business models

Henry

Bauwens

Hekkert

et al. 2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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252

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“…Among firms pursuing circular economy principles and models of business, we draw a distinction, based on our recent book (Zucchella & Urban, 2019): on one side we have long established and often large companies, transitioning towards circularity, while on the other side we have young firms and startups, having circularity in their DNA since inception and carriers of radical innovations, particularly in terms of business models. We call the latter cluster of firms "Born circular" enterprises.…”

Section: The Grand Challenges For the Planet And The Role Of Firmsmentioning

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“…Increasingly the management literature supported the idea that a sustainable firm goes beyond a mere respect of some standards of good behavior, and requires a deeper re-thinking of their organizations: "The response of firms to sustainable development issues needs to pass through a deep rethinking of the strategic design, encompassing the entire organization, its functions and reshaping its business model" (Zucchella & Urban, 2014, p. 86). Zucchella and Urban (2019) analyze in their book a number of cases of established and larger firms in comparison to young and nascent ventures, all characterized by the idea of pursuing the principles of the circular economy.…”

Section: The Circular Enterprisementioning

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“…Both examples show the need of involving in the business model also suppliers and customers. It is key for circular enterprises to ensure that all suppliers follow similar principles of sustainability and circularity, as well as the engagement of customers is key for the success of the model (Zucchella & Urban, 2019).…”

Section: Circular Business Modelsmentioning

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“…From this point of view two can be the main obstacles: the first is the acceptance of models which are not usual for the buyer, like for example renting/sharing instead of buying, or the use of recycled materials, particularly in cases like apparel. The second problem is the willingness to pay for sustainable products and services (Zucchella & Urban, 2019). While most people are aware of the sustainability imperative and agree about SDGs and circularity principles, only a smaller fraction effectively buys sustainable goods and services, and even more so if they cost more.…”

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2020

Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management

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The circular economy challenges business firms to adopt principles of sustainability by closing, narrowing, extending the loop of resources, in order to minimize impact on the planet. Firm embracing circularity principles have to innovate not only products and processes, but primarily models of business. Also they need to include suppliers and customers in their model, as well as any relevant stakeholder, developing eco-systemic business models. The challenge of implementing circular business models encompasses both established and larger organizations and younger ventures (born circular firms).

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A review of entrepreneurship and circular economy research: State of the art and future directions

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The circular economy (CE) emerged as an alternative model to the linear system to foster sustainable development. Entrepreneurship represents a key factor in capturing new circular business opportunities. Research on circular entrepreneurship remains at an early phase and is correspondingly somewhat dispersed. Thus, the research objective here is to bring entrepreneurship into the focus of discussions on CE through a systematic literature review. In the absence of any systematic review on this theme, this work aims to map the relevant research and identify the themes discussed in the literature straddling entrepreneurship and the CE currently dispersed across the existing literature. Based on a sample of 102 articles collected from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, this approach identified four thematic groups: growing circular SMEs, born circular firms and start-ups, social entrepreneurship in CE, and support ecosystem for circular entrepreneurship. A greater emphasis on the study of growing circular SMEs to the detriment of other groups is observed. Also, research in the field is mainly focused on European countries. We then propose a future research agenda and a conceptual model for the entrepreneurial process in CE as a point of departure for further developing and deepening the literature on circular entrepreneurship.

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Circular Entrepreneurship

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A typology of circular start-ups: An Analysis of 128 circular business models

A typology of circular start-ups: An Analysis of 128 circular business models

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