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Intelligent Assets: Unlocking the Circular Economy Potential

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The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things, a new model of growth gradually gaining independence from finite resource extraction is emerging. Can pervasive connectivity become the new infrastructure enabling effective material flows, keeping products, components and materials at their highest value at all times, thus enabling the coming of age of the circular economy?
Keywords: 
Circular Economy, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Digital Transformation, Digital Agenda
Country of publication: 
Switzerland
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Publication date: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Number of pages: 
56