Digitalisation as an Enabler of Circular Economy

Antikainen, Maria; Uusitalo, Teuvo; Kivikytö-Reponen, Päivi

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2018.04.027

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“…x (Yeo, Pepin, and Yang 2017) x Total 4 4 1 1 1 7 (Antikainen, Uusitalo, and Kivikytö-Reponen 2018) x (Askoxylakis 2018) x (Bianchini et al 2018) x (Bressanelli et al 2018b) x (Bressanelli et al 2018a) x (Chiappetta Jabbour et al 2017) x (de Man and Strandhagen 2017)…”

Section: Circular Business Models and Smart Servicesmentioning

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“…However, there is still a great distance between theory and practice (Gorissen, Vrancken, and Manshoven 2016). Regarding the CE perspective, authors and scholars described challenges, opportunities, frameworks, models, and best-in-class multinationals (Angioletti et al 2016;Antikainen, Uusitalo, and Kivikytö-Reponen 2018;Askoxylakis 2018;Ge and Jackson 2014). However, very limited contributions about what kind of technologies can support the implementation of CE, especially in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), are available (Y.…”

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Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

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International Journal of Production Research

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Circular Economy (CE) are undoubtedly two of the most debated topics of the last decades. Progressively, they gained the interest of policymakers, practitioners and scholars all over the world. Even if they have been usually described as two independent research fields, there are some examples presenting overlaps between these topics, represented by hybrid categories like Circular I4.0 and Digital CE. Starting from these two perspectives, an innovative framework both highlighting the links between I4.0 and CE and unveiling future research fields has been developed. Basing on one of the two perspectives, results show as it is possible to enhance a set of different relations. Depending on a dedicated area of either CE or I4.0 it is possible to see the prevalence of some I4.0 technology than others. However, the influence of I4.0 technologies on CE is always verified.

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Section: Circular Business Models and Smart Servicesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

et al. 2019

International Journal of Production Research

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“…While the CE concept has received massive promotion by academia, governments, and policymakers alike, review research on CE has largely centered on analysis of the CE definitions, sustainability, and the CE within various supply chains. The interdisciplinary context of the CE is also evident in research, with the CE gaining grounds in the fields of business and business models, management, strategy and strategy implementation, and value-thinking [45,55,56]. Manufacturing-related review research on the CE has included exploring the different ideas, motivation for research, and the context of manufacturing within CE [45].…”

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Digitisation and the Circular Economy: A Review of Current Research and Future Trends

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Since it first appeared in literature in the early nineties, the Circular Economy (CE) has grown in significance amongst academic, policymaking, and industry groups. The latest developments in the CE field have included the interrogation of CE as a paradigm, and its relationship with sustainability and other concepts, including iterative definitions. Research has also identified a significant opportunity to apply circular approaches to our rapidly changing industrial system, including manufacturing processes and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) which, with data, is enabling the latest advances in digital technologies (DT). Research which fuses these two areas has not been extensively explored. This is the first paper to provide a synergistic and integrative CE-DT framework which offers directions for policymakers and guidance for future research through a review of the integrated fields of CE and I4.0. To achieve this, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR; n = 174) of the empirical literature related to digital technologies, I4.0, and circular approaches is conducted. The SLR is based on peer-reviewed articles published between 2000 and early 2018. This paper also summarizes the current trends in CE research related to manufacturing. The findings confirm that while CE research has been on the increase, research on digital technologies to enable a CE is still relatively untouched. While the “interdisciplinarity” of CE research is well-known, the findings reveal that a substantial percentage is engineering-focused. The paper concludes by proposing a synergistic and integrative CE-DT framework for future research developed from the gaps in the current research landscape.

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“…The effectiveness of a business model implemented according to circular economy assumptions can be supported by digital technologies, which facilitate and help to close or slow down material flows, with increased resource efficiency [17,18,19,20,21].…”

Section: Digitisation Of the Life Cycle Of A Building -Enabler Of Ce mentioning

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Digital Construction and its Role in Driving the Circular Economy

Araszkiewicz¹

2019

Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2019

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Digital technologies can be used at any stage of the life cycle of a construction project, from the concept of the facility to the final of its operation. Construction companies use more and more available technological solutions, increasing mobility and safety at the construction site and facilitating the construction process. Digitization is increasingly affecting the modernization of the building management and operation process, saving time, making decision-making easier, causing saving financial resources and reducing the costs of energy and materials consumption. Not only investment of construction entrepreneurs in internal start-ups has been observed, but also the reverse phenomenon, involving the interest of technology companies in the construction investment market. The closed-circle economy allows economic growth while reducing and optimizing resource consumption-it deeply transforms patterns of production and consumption chains and designs business models anew. The aim of the article is to present the results of the literature review, from the angle of discussion of issues related to the digital technologies used in various stages of the life cycle of construction projects with the assumptions of a closed-cycle economy. three successive steps were carried out: (1) a search strategy was developed to systematically review the literature and collect a representative set of publications on the relation of circular economy to building and digital technologies applicable to the life cycle of a building facility using Google Scholar; (2) a list of publications in the ad-doc database was prepared in order to synthesize the literature review; (3) a subset of the literature reviews was organized, which enabled the acquisition of quantitative and qualitative data as well as information on the phenomenon of digital construction and the impact of this innovative change on the development of the concept of closed circuit economics.

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Digitalisation as an Enabler of Circular Economy

Cited by 320 publications

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Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Digitisation and the Circular Economy: A Review of Current Research and Future Trends

Digital Construction and its Role in Driving the Circular Economy

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