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The theory and practice of circular economics

Course name: The theory and practice of circular economics

Cluster: Macro

Period: International Business - Year 2

Semester: Fall Semester (starts in September)

Study load: 5 ECTS (~140 hours)

Exam: written exam

Course description

In this course, you'll investigate the environmental challenges impounding on business & develop sustainable solutions, sustainable economic growth model for a typical equipment manufacturing company.

Competences and learning objectives

After the course you can:

  • Understand the context of circularity with respect to past evolutions of sustainability, green initiatives, ecological movements, and pollution controls from the past;
  • Develop feasibility study/reporting on the viability of circular initiatives to a select group of stakeholders;
  • Understand the implications or the relationships between changing internal variable(s) (business models, business operations, technologies) and externalities such as social, legal change or systems level change;
  • Provide support (e.g. risk analysis, guidelines, design, recommendations) in addressing the pertinent problem(s) facing a typical organization taking into account the externalities.