Circular business models of washing machines in the Netherlands: Material and climate change implications toward 2050

Among European countries, The Netherlands is boosting the transformation to a circular economy creat- ing and deploying circular business models across different sectors, including the home appliances sector. Although in recent years shared access-based business models have attracted the attention of the scien- tific community from a...

Digital Tools to Support Knowledge Sharing and Cooperation in High-Investment Product-Services

The manufacturing industry needs to adapt their product-services to meet customer requirements in today’s rapidly changing markets. This paper presents how technologies can support knowledge sharing and collaboration during product-service processes. This work was part of the European Union Useit-Wisely project and summaries demonstration...

Product services for a resource-efficient and circular economy - A review

Since the 1990s, Product Service Systems (PSS) have been heralded as one of the most effective instruments for moving society towards a resource-efficient, circular economy and creating a much-needed 'resource revolution'. This paper reviews the literature on PSS in the last decade and compares the findings with those from an earlier review in...

Can European eco-innovation policies accelerate the uptake of product-service systems?

Despite the apparent potential of product-service systems (PSS) as a more profitable, resource efficient and socially responsible form of eco-innovation, there has seemingly been limited uptake of this type of business model. A current gap in the literature is that most of the available academic work on PSS has focussed on design strategies,...

Product-services as a research field: Past, present and future. Reflections from a decade of research

In the last decade many researchers, institutes and programs in the EU paid attention to product-service systems (PSS). Given this massive effort, it is time to take stock. Is PSS research a theoretical field in its own right? Is the PSS concept indeed the road to the Factor 10 world? Is it the road to enhanced competitiveness? What is needed to...

Product-Service Systems: Reviewing achievements and refining the research agenda

This special issue on Product-Service Systems: reviewing achievements and refining the research agenda shows the progress that has been made in the PSS field in the last decade, including various national and international research projects and companies' initiatives, important achievements and gaps at theoretical and practical levels. Most of...