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Design professionals, designers, entrepreneurs, design students and researchers
This book is interesting for understanding what circular design strategies and business models exist. It gives a good overview of different options with examples from many different industries. This book is a good starting point to understand how to make products circular and to set a direction for your own business.
'Products that last' provides different strategies and methods to redesign products. The goal is to develop a new perspective to design products. There will be a shift in emphasis on different product features, and together with designers, entrepreneurs can work on new principles to make money from using products. A revolution in ways of doing business is needed. To this end, the book describes five business model types that benefit from a longer-than-average product life (they can be combined and are explained by chapter).
Authors: Conny Bakker, Marcel den Hollander & Ed van Hinte
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The circular economy does not arise by itself. CIRCO (a program of TKI-CLICKNL) focuses on getting a new market moving. CIRCO therefore activates - with the support of the government - entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re)design products, services and business models in order to then do circular business.
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Within the Faculty of Industrial Design at TU Delft, the Department of Design for Sustainability deals with sustainable product development and design within the circular economy.
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