SINCERE (Sino-European Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency) – SINCERE

Academic research on resource efficiency and circular economy is hampered by several important constraints, which SINCERE will help overcome. There is some conceptual ambiguity in the literature around core concepts, resource efficiency and circular economy, also green economy, etc.
There is a need to develop better metrics and indicators for RE/CE that will provide basis for further research - they can be applied by others interested in RE/CE both within academia and beyond.
The evidence base on the economic importance of resource efficiency, and the dynamics of innovation, is weaker than for other key green economy issues such as decarbonisation. The historic dynamics work will provide insight into this issue, itself a direct contribution to the research field. It will also yield quantitative relationships that can be used as a basis for further analysis, e.g. as inputs into modelling frameworks. It is expected that the findings will be useful for theoreticians
The innovation work will provide data and insights relevant to understanding innovation opportunities and dynamics of a core case study sector (metals), and will contribute to further conceptual development in the field of innovation studies. It will provide a rare example of an empirically rich comparative innovation system study for China and Europe.
A broad-based community of modellers will benefit from the innovative and challenging approach to multi-model integration proposed. The linkage of macro-economic and technology-explicit sectoral models will provide important methodological insights, benefiting the respective modelling communities. It will also highlight the importance of key issues in achieving resource efficiency, thus helping to focus future research in this area.

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