DigiPrime: Digital Platform for Circular Economy in Cross-Sectorial Sustainable Value Networks

Circular Economy is the solution for the current environmental crisis, representing a huge economic opportunity to build new sustainable businesses. However, many barriers need to be faced for its implementation at industrial scale—firstly, the lack of data sharing between the different stakeholders...

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Main Authors: Elena Mossali, Marco Diani, Marcello Colledani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
Series:Proceedings
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/65/1/1
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Summary:Circular Economy is the solution for the current environmental crisis, representing a huge economic opportunity to build new sustainable businesses. However, many barriers need to be faced for its implementation at industrial scale—firstly, the lack of data sharing between the different stakeholders of product value-chains. The DigiPrime project is an EU-funded Innovation Action aimed at developing and demonstrating a digital platform with services able to unlock innovative cross-sectorial business models for the remanufacturing and recycling of target value-added products. In this paper, the concept behind the DigiPrime project is reported, with a particular focus on the construction sector.
ISSN:2504-3900