LINCIT (Transitioning to a Circular Business Ecosystem)
Our current economic system is far from circular. This is not necessarily due to a lack of ambition – many businesses today, small and large, have integrated clear sustainability goals into their strategic vision. Yet they find themselves struggling with the “how to” question. How to redesign entire supply chains to close the loop? And how to reorganize the associated logistics and operations? One crucial condition is clear: Companies cannot achieve circularity on their own. Circularity, after all, is not a property of a single product, service, or business model – it is a property of an entire system. This project thus studies circularity from
an ecosystem perspective.
The mission of LINCIT (LINear to CIrcular Transition) is to guide companies operating
a linear supply chain to transition to a circular business ecosystem, and organize the
associated logistics and operations.
The research questions will be studied in a Living Lab with three use case clusters, directly
relevant to the Living Lab partners, and organized along the circularity ladder:
(1) reusable packaging and transport items,
(2) servitization and remanufacturing,
(3) circular plastics.
