Abstract
Recent experience has clearly shown that mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are difficult to get back from customers to close loops through current end-of-pipe collection solutions. This paper explores the potential of a shift in business logic away from ownership as its central concept, to use or value (through e.g. leasing or pay-per-use). In other words, a shift towards alternatives to the classic sales offer (where product ownership is transferred to the customer in one transaction). An appealing advantage of these alternatives is that a company retains control over its devices, facilitating resource recovery. Consequently, these concepts seem particularly interesting from a circular economy perspective as they could have the capacity of decoupling economic value creation from material input. To make the opportunities of such a transformation more conceptual, the paper aligns terminology and taxonomy of commercial offers for mobile devices and provides an overview of what defines alternative commercial offers.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Electronic Goes Green 2016+ |
| Subtitle of host publication | Inventing shades of green |
| Publisher | Fraunhofer IZM Berlin |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-00-053763-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | Electronics Goes Green 2016+: Inventing shades of green - Berlin, Germany Duration: 7 Sept 2016 → 9 Sept 2016 |
Conference
| Conference | Electronics Goes Green 2016+ |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Berlin |
| Period | 7/09/16 → 9/09/16 |
