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Products and services for product-as-a-service

Sweden’s ambitious goal of realizing a circular economy (CE) needs enhanced implementation of product-as-a-service (PaaS) business models, which can potentially double the environmental performance including climate change mitigation.

IVAs 100-lista 2023

Year:

2023

Category:

Circular economy, Business models

University:

Linköping University

Responsible Researcher:

Tomohiko Sakao, Johannes Matschewsky, Johan Vogt Duberg, Ou Tang, Annelie Carlson, Marianna Lena Kambanou, Erik Sundin, Mattias Lindahl

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Critical to this better implementation are systemic changes between product development and service delivery. However, these changes are challenging to be realized because of the higher complexity than product sales in a linear economy. Therefore, the RE:think project was created to help Swedish manufacturers build capacity for product development and service cost estimation adapted for PaaS.

The project deliverables will be new reference models to be used widely in the Swedish industry. The need of enhanced PaaS for a CE is stark, as demonstrated by a sister project called Scandere that is EU co-funded, involves 12 European front runners, and is coordinated also by the RE:think manager.

IVA’s 100 List 2023 - Technology in the service of humanity

IVA’s 100 List 2023 highlights a diverse range of research projects from Swedish universities, under the theme Technology in the Service of Humanity within in climate change, energy supply, welfare technology, cybersecurity and crisis preparedness. The projects have been selected based on their great potential to create value through commercialization, business and method development, or societal impact. All participating researchers are interested in increased contacts with the business sector for the application and further development of their projects.

Named contact persons for each research project on the 100 List are responsible for the accuracy of the information presented.