Service business and circular economy

Circular economy accelerates sustainable business

Service business and circular economy

A sustainable future, technological upheavals and rapid changes in the operating environment require companies to adopt innovative solutions, the ability to anticipate and, on that basis, the ability to build new ways of creating value for customers, society and themselves. They challenge companies and other actors to examine more deeply the core of their operations and value creation from the perspectives of different stakeholders.

Laurea’s research and development expertise in service business and circular economy offers companies, as well as other organisations, opportunities to find direction amid these phenomena, and to develop sustainable value creation, competitive advantage and circular-economy-based business.

Key research themes include

• Sustainable value creation and circular economy business models
• Innovation and strategic management
• Anticipation and foresight competence in management
• Changing consumer behaviour
• Sustainable and innovative food chain
• Technological disruptions and artificial intelligence from different business perspectives
• Living labs, service design and co-creation as part of building a sustainable future

Also see the cross-cutting themes of the research programme.