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Catherine Weetman talks to Helen Burdett, who leads the World Economic Forum’s work on circular economy innovation, including its flagship initiative, Scale360°, and its work on Circular Trailblazers.
The Scale360° program advances innovation ecosystems for environmental and economic impact with scalable, locally-led innovation support delivered through private-public partnerships–all connected through a global digital community.
Circular Trailblazers are the subject of a new report from the World Economic Forum and impact organization ScaleUpNation. The special study was conducted to better understand innovators within the circular economy given the major opportunities they offer, for both job creation and economic development.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- World Economic Forum – Scale 360o https://www.weforum.org/scale360-circular-innovation/home
- WEF Cities Go Circular event, 23 July 2021 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/cites-go-circular/
- World Economic Forum – Circular Trailblazers paper https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/circular-trailblazers-scale-ups-leading-the-way-towards-a-more-circular-economy
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-burdett/
- Scale Up Nation https://scaleupnation.com/
- Excess Materials Exchange https://excessmaterialsexchange.com/
- Fairphone https://www.fairphone.com/
- Polymateria https://www.polymateria.com/
About Helen Burdett
Ms. Helen Burdett leads the World Economic Forum’s work on circular economy innovation, including its flagship circular innovation initiative, Scale360°.
Scale360° advances innovation ecosystems for environmental and economic impact with scalable, locally-led innovation support delivered through private-public partnerships–all connected through a global digital community.
In addition to her academic and research background at Georgetown University, Helen has 10 years of experience in strategy and operations consulting, international development, and software development. Prior to joining the Forum, she was a Director at Globality, a SoftBank-funded scale-up bringing digital transformation and artificial intelligence to the procurement industry.
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