Innovation & Ecosystem Building

The Encourage Best Practices field focuses on gathering and disseminating successful case studies and frameworks, particularly those that integrate lifecycle costs (OPEX) into procurement strategies. The Foster Ecosystem Growth & Knowledge Exchange field emphasizes building collaborative networks through events and partnerships, and even developing a business case for selling successful circular methodologies. Finally, the Foster Innovation for Circularity field aims to directly spur new solutions through startup challenges and by undertaking ambitious projects, such as designing and testing a fully circular, resource-efficient laboratory that can serve as a reference model for future buildings.

Encourage Best Practices

Identify, collect, and communicate successful circular models and frameworks, prioritizing procurement strategies that consider full lifecycle costs.

• Promote procurement strategies that go beyond capital expenditure (CAPEX) to include operational costs (OPEX) and end-of-life management.

• (GCiLS as) a plattform to collect and leverage best practices and maybe even give the extra ressources needed to increase accessibility and visibility of practical cases.

• Establish inter-company working groups and partnerships to share best practices, white papers, and real-world CE solutions from Switzerland and abroad.

Foster Ecosystem Growth & Knowledge Exchange

Short Description: Organize events and foster partnerships across the value chain to share insights and build collaborative networks for circular innovation.

• Playing the rules of the market, selling the finest best practices to consulting firms or other organizations who require them for their clients, and making a business case out of it.

• Foster partnerships across the healthcare value chain to enhance resource use, recycling, and circular innovation.

• Idea for a company level: Mentoring 4 one month”: a professional(s) from a company guides a group of students working on a CE project.

Foster Innovation for Circularity

Stimulate new circular solutions through startup challenges, competitions, and the development of real-world circular infrastructure prototypes.

• Competitions including a great event to celebrate the winning cases of intrapreneurship in CE in Life Sciences.

• Design, build, and test a fully circular, adaptable, and resource-efficient laboratory, applying GreenLab principles.