Marco van Hees, Inge Oskam, Nancy Bocken

Transformative and community-based participation in collaborative business model experimentation for urban upcycling

Introduction

Transformative and community-based participation in collaborative business model experimentation for urban upcycling . Explore transformative, community-based participation in urban upcycling business model experiments. Learn how collaborative circular models achieve product longevity in cities.

Abstract

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose and/or remanufacture. Municipalities, social entrepreneurs as well as multinational enterprises use various experimentation methods to initiate, test or improve new collaborations in urban upcycling. However, little is known about the role of transformative stakeholder participation in these experiments and how they affect business models for upcycling. Therefore, this study investigates how initiators in urban upcycling use transformative and community-based participatory experimentation to develop collaborative circular business models that facilitate upcycling in a city context. Through a multiple case study approach, this research contributes to literature on circular business model innovation by investigating how practitioners in urban upcycling collaboratively develop, test, implement and scale business models for product and resource longevity in a city context.

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