Circular Entrepreneurship: Creating Sustainable Businesses

Are you ready to step into the world of sustainable business? Do you want to create and lead a circular organization? Whether you're just exploring the idea of starting a circular business or you're ready to take concrete steps toward a sustainable transition, this course is designed for you! This course equips you with the tools to launch a new circular business – whether for-profit or non-profit – or transform an existing one by embedding circular practices. It covers both entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, empowering you to drive change within your organization. Step by step, we’ll guide you through the process of building a circular, sustainable organization. You'll learn to develop a business plan with circularity at its core, use design thinking to craft a strategy, identify circular markets, apply the circular business model canvas, manage finances effectively, and make decisions that promote sustainability at every stage. By the end, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to start building a business fit for the circular economy. This course is for practical thinkers and problem-solvers ready to challenge "business as usual" and embrace circular entrepreneurship. Is this course for you? This course is ideal for participants from diverse backgrounds – whether you’re in engineering, social sciences, design, or business. It’s open to anyone with an entrepreneurial mindset and a passion for sustainability. Whether you're a student or a professional, if you’re motivated to build a more sustainable future, this course will help you succeed. 3b:T55f,

• Recognize and understand how environmental, policy, and social drivers of circular entrepreneurship can impact a new initiative.
• Ideate and evaluate new circular value propositions that meet the requirements of viability, feasibility, desirability, and sustainability.
• Demonstrate behaviors and adopt a mindset that support circular entrepreneurs in building a value network.
• Collect intelligence about markets for circular business to support the introduction of a new initiative in relation to competition, customer needs, and market entry, by using the (digital) tools introduced in this course.
• Propose a financial structure to support the business model of a new circular initiative, addressing how costs and revenues develop over time.
• Construct an action plan to initiate the first practical steps in a circular entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship journey, using the Business Model Plan template provided in the course.