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Producing Performance

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This shift is imperative for our welfare; it is feasible and its progress can be measured.

Daring to exploit emerging opportunities, using science and knowledge as drivers to uncouple revenue and wealth creation from resource throughput.1

‘If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves’

Thomas A. Edison

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  1. See also: Stahel, W.R. (1997). The service economy: ‘wealth without resource consumption?’, Philosophical Transactions A, Royal Society London, 355 (June), 1309–1319.

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  2. Hartmann, K.M., Goetz, S., Market, R., Kaufmann, T. and Schneider, K. (2003). ‘Photocontrol of weed germination: Lightless tillage and variable memory of the seed bank’, Aspects of Applied Biology, 69, 237–246, 2003.

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  3. Stahel, W.R. (1997). The service economy: ‘wealth without resource consumption?’, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society London, 355 (June), 1309–1319.

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Stahel, W.R. (2010). Producing Performance. In: The Performance Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288843_2

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