Linking circular economy and digitalisation technologies: A systematic literature review of past achievements and future promises

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The circular economy (CE) has the potential to capitalise upon emerging digital technologies, such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and the Internet of things (IoT), amongst others. In addition, product-service system (PSS) has been acknowledged as an important business model innovation for achieving the digitalisation enabled CE.

🔑 Key Findings

• These digital technologies combined with business model innovation are deemed to provide solutions to myriad problems in the world, including those related to circular economy transformation.
• Given the societal and practical importance of CE and digitalisation, last decade has witnessed a significant increase in academic publication on these topics.
• Therefore, this study aims to capture the essence of the scholarly work at the intersection of the CE and digital technologies.

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