Fabian Takacs

Circular Economy: the 4 steps to build a circular product offering

Fabian Takacs examines the concept of circular economy, with a focus on business model innovation for Small and medium enterprises. Follow these 4 steps to designing a circular business model leading to a circular product offering: Close, Improve, Monetise, and Excite the loop.

Serena Rebecca Moro

Fashion and sustainability: awareness and challenges among Italian fashion businesses

The pandemic and the alarming climate change triggered the re-evaluation of companies’ priorities, leaving increasing space for sustainability. This Report focuses on fashion industry challenges with regards to the sustainability transition process, aiming at helping companies – which have already reached a considerable level of awareness – to understand how to preserve their competitiveness.

Dario Grünenfelder

Rethink the textile industry from the roots

Dario Gruenenfelder, founder of Muntagnard, focus on fashion supply chain transparency and talks about how business success and sustainability do not need to contradict each other: generating more value by reusing and recycling in the textile industry.

Maryna Grytsenko

What is Corporate Social Responsibility today?

Individuals’ daily behaviours have an environmental impact, whose negative consequences are often only visible in the long-term, when it is too late. Even the smallest individual action leaves a footprint. If positive or negative, it is up to us. Of course, this is true for business as well. That’s why companies are increasingly including Corporate Social Responsibility within their business agenda, often as the result of consumers asking for brands and companies’ greater involvement in societal and environmental issues.

Ryan Edwards

The ecosystem approach in Agri-food innovation.

Ryan Edwards, co-founder of Naked Innovations, operates in the sector of Agri-food sustainability, supporting startups and their collaboration across the food industry.

Patricia Matzdorf

Circular Economy strategies to address the 9 planetary boundaries - Patricia Matzdorf - WWF

Patricia Matzdorf is a Partnership and Project Manager in Innovation & Socio-Economic Change at WWF, Switzerland, where they support all of those who are trying to find solutions for the planet, helping them to increase their impact and their visibility.

Lu Ying

Why the New Model of Business is Regenerative by Design

Discover the unexplored economic advantage of new regenerative business models: instead of extracting resources for a transactional chain, materials once produced can be turned into a renewable resource and reused.

Phil Brown

Circular economy: how can be easy with blockchain and inter-collaboration

Phil Brown, VP Business Development & Strategy at Circularise, explains how blockchain technology and inter-organisational collaboration can make it easier for companies to implement circular strategies.

Anthony Swain

Sustainable Finance: what, how and why

For decades, finance and sustainability have been considered as two uncorrelated, if not antithetical, topics. In recent years, growing climate risk for companies and environmentally concerned investors.

Brian Baldassarre

How designers facilitate the transition to the circular economy

Brian - an expert in circular economy business modelling - explains the key role of the designer in facilitating communication within and outside the company in order to consume fewer resources and produce less waste, while also having a positive impact on society

Grammenos Mastrojeni

The importance of cooperation dynamics at different levels to tackle the climate crisis

Grammenos Mastrojeni, Deputy Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean, talks about the importance of cooperation dynamics at different levels and the related barriers.

Celeste Righi Ricco

The impact of sustainable agronomics practices and the importance of being an activist in everyday life

Celeste Righi Ricco, co-founder of Change For Planet, explains the importance of rethinking the criticality of the food system and the powerful impact of being an activist in everyday life.