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Over the past thirty years, Larsson has engaged in organizational research and business and organization development as a consultant. For the better part of the past two decades, he has worked with issues related to the transformation of transport systems to renewable fuels and other attempts at implementing clean technologies. This chapter also contains a review of literature pertaining to the development of a circular economy, the peak of production of key resources, and the implementation of sustainable technologies and systems.
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Among the guest researchers at SIAR in the 1970s was Chris Argyris, later an influential professor in the field of business management.
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IUC means Industrial Development Centre , organizations with the purpose of supporting the development of small- and medium-sized companies in different areas in Sweden . There are sixteen such companies that are owned by a mix of large and small companies and public organizations in their regions. IUC Syd operates in the southernmost region of Sweden—Skåne.
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation—Towards the Circular Economy, p. 18.
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Geller, H.—Energy Revolution (2003) pp. 122–124.
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Larsson, M. (2018). The Author’s Journey. In: Circular Business Models. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71791-3_3
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