Circular Economy: Capacity Building for SMEs

Thank you for taking the time to fill out the questionaire.

Your answers will help us to understand, how we can support SMEs to transit into the Circular Economy (CE) as profitable and smoothly as possible.

The survey consists of 3 questions, and takes 3-5 minutes. Your answers matter!

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If you wanted to start or proceed Circular Economy actions tomorrow, but needed help to do so: what kind of support would you need most urgently / how would circumstances have to be different?

How challenging is the successful performance of the following Circular Economy (CE) tasks for your company?

very easymanageablechallengingvery challengingneed better support

Identify my potential and viable business opportunities in the CE

Close the resource / material loops of my value chain

Quantify the environmental benefit of circular strategies

Identify / create value in a circular economy system

Quantify the economic benefits of circular strategies

Engage in valuable collaborations along my value chain

Establish trust in collaboration partners, which might even be competitors

Getting access to innovative technologies / materials / research / data / information

Design products / services more circular / sustainable

Evaluate environmental impact of product or service solutions (e.g. Life Cycle Assessment)

Design successful Circular Business Models

Make decisions in the complex system Circular Economy

Define indicators to measure the success of circular solutions (e.g. products, services, material loops, or business models) for the CE (KPIs)

Educate my staff in CE solutions

Experiment, and search for feasible CE solutions

To what extend to you agree with the following statements? Note: the questions refer to not yet well established CE solutions.

Absolutely notLittlePartlyQuiteAbsolutelyn.a.

My customers understand CE requirements and support CE product or business model solutions (B2B)

My customers understand CE requirements and support CE product or business model solutions (B2C)

Local regulations support my potential CE solutions

EU Regulations support my potential CE solutions

I know who enablers for my CE solutions are and how to start collaboration

I have access to external financial resources to support CE solutions (fundings, credits, investors, etc.)

Public authorities / cities know about the requirements of CE, and support SMEs in any possible way

My sectors´ association knows about the requirements of CE and support SMEs in any possible way

I can find sufficient and applicable consultancy to any CE relevant topic needed

My stakeholders know about CE and we share a common wording in that matter. e.g: everybody knows, what 'Circular Economy', 'closed loop' or 'Circular Business Model' implicates.

Thank you very much for taking the time. It is appreciated!