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Circular Entrepreneurship: Creating Sustainable Businesses
Overview
Learn how to create a sustainable, circular organization. This course equips you with the skills to apply circular principles, using sustainability as a driver of business innovation and long-term success.
What you'll learn
- Recognize and understand how environmental, policy, and social drivers of circular entrepreneurship can impact a new initiative.
- Ideate and evaluate new circular value propositions that meet the requirements of viability, feasibility, desirability, and sustainability.
- Demonstrate behaviors and adopt a mindset that support circular entrepreneurs in building a value network.
- Collect intelligence about markets for circular business to support the introduction of a new initiative in relation to competition, customer needs, and market…
- Propose a financial structure to support the business model of a new circular initiative, addressing how costs and revenues develop over time.
- Construct an action plan to initiate the first practical steps in a circular entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship journey, using the Business Model Plan template…
Skills you'll practise
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
- A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
- From Delft University of Technology, a well-regarded name.
Disadvantages
- Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
- Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
- Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
- Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.
- Runs on fixed dates, so you may have to wait for the next run.
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Free to audit
- Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
- Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $169). Audit access may end after the course closes.
Before you start
None
Taught by
- Nina BoorsmaDr.
- David PeckDr.
Delft University of Technology is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (86/100).
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