The Challenge of Technological Advancement in Circular Economy.
Makuoji, Olu Lewis (2025)
2025
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025051913113
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2025051913113
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This thesis explores the challenges of technological advancement in implementing circular economic practices. Employing a qualitative research method based entirely on secondary data analysis. Using Fortum's sustainability report as a primary case study, supported by supplementary documents, the research identifies technological barriers and opportunities in the transition toward circular economy business initiatives. This analysis reveals the intricacy between rapid innovative technology and sustainable resource management.
Highlighting infrastructure limitations and digital integration challenges while acknowledging the knowledge gap that seamlessly limits the effective transition into circular initiatives. The finding demonstrates how companies like Fortum navigate these
complexities through strategic investment in enabling technologies to implement a waste-to-energy business model faced with regulatory barriers and bottlenecks from policy and framework that impede business growth.
This research contributes to the growing body of literature on circular economy implementation by providing insight into the technological dimension of circular transition and offering a framework for understanding how companies can effectively utilise technology to overcome barriers to circularity.
Highlighting infrastructure limitations and digital integration challenges while acknowledging the knowledge gap that seamlessly limits the effective transition into circular initiatives. The finding demonstrates how companies like Fortum navigate these
complexities through strategic investment in enabling technologies to implement a waste-to-energy business model faced with regulatory barriers and bottlenecks from policy and framework that impede business growth.
This research contributes to the growing body of literature on circular economy implementation by providing insight into the technological dimension of circular transition and offering a framework for understanding how companies can effectively utilise technology to overcome barriers to circularity.