Circular Business Models

Mats Larsson has worked for 20 years as a business consultant and is the founder of the Global Energy Transformation Institute. He is an expert in business strategy, innovations and entrepreneurship, and has worked extensively both with large companies and individual entrepreneurs in several technology and business areas. Most recently he has worked with large scale energy systems transformation.

• 1 Mankind vs. Reality.- 2 Development as a Process of Organization.- 3 The Author’s Journey.- 4 The Circular Economy and Business Challenges.- 5 Complexity – The Tightly Woven Fabric of Society.- 6 Could Resource Shortages Cause Problems?.- 7 Multiple Helix Collaboration for the Development of a Circular Economy.- 8 Managing Change.- 9 Local Production and Distribution Systems.- 10 Sharing and Extended Use.- 11 Standardization and modularization.- 12 Recycling and Upcycling.- 13 Biologically based materials.- 14 Transportation systems, renewable fuels and energy efficiency.- 15 Construction, Infrastructure, and Digital Technologies.- 16 Life Sustaining Resources and Technologies.- 17 Financial Innovations.- 18 General Purpose Technologies as the Basis for Transformation.- 19 Risks and Logical Fallacies.- 20 Planning The Way Forward and Reality Check.- 21 Paradigms, at Last.- Epilogue.