FACE: Fair and Circular innovation Ecosystems

Aim and main expected results

The FACE project aims to build new knowledge on how to design and manage fair and circular innovation ecosystems. Specifically, our objective is to investigate how a large truck manufacturing company can initiate and impact circular and fair innovation ecosystems in two regions with significant diversity (Umeå in Sweden and Durban in South Africa).

The project will result in descriptions of current innovation ecosystems around the manufacture of trucks in Umeå and in Durban with the identification of driving forces and obstacles to implementing circular resource flows in these innovation ecosystems. These descriptions with driving forces and obstacles will serve as a basis for developing solutions that will be tested and evaluated. Ecological and social sustainability issues and effects will be highlighted.

The long-term goal is to contribute to a fair and green transition in the transport sector with a considerable effect on decreasing the use of nonrenewable resources and the creation of new, sustainable job opportunities and businesses through this process.