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Derek Diener

Senior Researcher

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+46 10 228 40 52
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derek.diener@ri.se
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Göteborg
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Project

The Circular Car

Transport accounts for almost a third of Sweden's greenhouse gas emissions and the car industry has ambitious targets to reduce the emissions. The project Circular Car project aims to support new and established actors in the…
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Circular construction materials

Every year, our cities need a large amount of material to build and renew roads, footpaths, squares and car parks. Usually, new crushed rock is used, which is not only costly but also pollutes the environment. We believe we can do…
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Sustainable Interior UDI step 3

The Sustainable Interior project is a UDI project step 3, with the goal of developing a market-ready certification for sustainable interiors.
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Circular material palette, assessment model & example vehicle interior

The Circular Material Palette: simplifying choices of more circular materials
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Product Service Systems in the Nordics

In a product service system (PSS), the product is owned by the producers (or supplier). Instead of buying the product, the customer pays for its use or function, so that the PSS provider has an incentive to maximise the use of the…
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Product passport as an enabler for circular flows of furniture

New legislation now exists which aims to make sustainable products the norm in the EU's internal market. As part of Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), digital product passports are also introduced. In the p…
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REMAnufactuRing – Key enABLEr to future business (Remarkable)

Today we need more resilient and sustainable value networks to reduce uncertainties and risks in the supply of components and materials. Circular production systems with remanufacturing will become a prerequisite to supply the fut…
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Prototyping digital circular business ecosystems

To accelerate circular transformation and harness the potential of digitalisation, organisations need to jointly address innovation in the business ecosystem. The project focuses on the construction and recycling industries, where…
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Future Adaptable Design Electrical Vehicle by Circular Business models

The project aims to develop prototypes for profitable circular business models with associated design specifications for future-adapted heavy electric vehicles and electric cars for more electric vehicle miles.
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Circular business ecosystem: Sensors and recycling for heavy vehicle tyres

This project builds knowledge about how the heavy vehicle tyre system in Sweden could become more circular and resource efficient. New service-based business models based on integrated sensor data and increased retreading activity…
Story

Labelling for making office moves sustainable

The collaboration project, Sustainable Interior, is striving to create a labelling system that will reveal the environmental and climate impact of a building’s interior furnishings, along with creating a digital tool that will hel…
Story

The Circular Map gathers cases and inspires

The online Circular Map has gathered inspiring cases on concrete and profitable circular business. Project Manager Josefina Sallén feels that the examples are incredibly valuable and encourages more companies to share their soluti…
Expertise

Remanufacturing

In Sweden, we live as if we have four planets at our disposal. However, it is not sustainable, and we need to switch to circular material and product flows. One way is to increase the proportion of remanufactured components and pr…
Expertise

Applied Life Cycle Thinking

In order to face current sustainability challenges on e.g. climate and resource issues, companies, authorities and other actors need to develop their abilities to contribute to the environmental, social and economic sustainability…
Expertise

Digital ecosystems and business models

RISE has long experience and competence in organization research on digitalization strategies. We support established companies and industries in transforming their digital technologies into viable strategies, business models&nbsp…
Expertise

Future adaptive design for a circular ec

Future adaptive design can reduce business risks in circular business models through a product design for extended product life, through robustness, flexibility, and upgradeability
Education area

Course in LCA, Life cycle assessment

Do you want to learn more about LCA, Life cycle assessment, and how you can use LCA to minimize the environmental impact of your products or services? Then this introductory course is for you.