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Signing manifesto during the event ‘Acts of the Region’, june 20, 2018.
Recently, commissioning parties invested 150 million in circular procurement.
The expectation is for research institutes and businesses that
were also part of the communities of practice to soon adopt a
comparable approach.
The participants themselves decided which circular procurement
trajectories they would select. To be as innovative as
possible, the participants were encouraged to include start-ups
and scale-ups. For most organisations, involving start-ups is rare
because of a perceived lack of proven experience, large stock of
products and financial solvency. Purchasing departments of larger
organisations only occasionally acted as launching customer for
start-ups. An example is the newly built circular meeting spot
and restaurant Circl, located at the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s business