Ellen MacArthur Foundation
‘Grill the Aspiring Geeks’ – Cranfield University stories from the Disruptive Innovation Festival
We recently took part in The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF), a three-week-long online festival of 'disruptive' ideas (from November 6th to 24th 2017), which is free and accessible to everyone. The festival challenged us to think about ...
How circular economy thinking and learning is essential for business
The circular economy is your biggest challenge and your biggest opportunity. Celebrated as a catalyst for disruptive innovation, it can still result in nothing more imaginative than recycling initiatives. Businesses in industries with recyclable materials ...
What makes Cranfield an ideal place to dive deep into the circular economy?
The answer may be simple; coffee capsules. Halo Coffee, supported by Cranfield University, have developed the world’s first fully compostable capsule. No longer must we wait 200 years for our coffee capsules to degrade; instead, ...
The circular economy hack_dif hackathon: three venues, three continents, one 48 hour challenge…
Last Friday afternoon our Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) was one of three locations, on three different continents, playing host to designers, researchers, innovators and engineers who united to try and solve a circular ...
Make smart connected products better for our future circular economy
Do you have ideas to help make the things we use work better for us and help the environment? Could you make them a reality with the help of an international team located on three ...