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Institution: Georgia Tech
Focus Area: Business innovation and biological inspired design.
Expertise: Enabling innovation in business and education through engagement and research efforts in thematic areas, including the circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature..
1. The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business focuses on the circular economy as a key theme for research on business innovation.
2. Staff at the Brooks Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems seek to understand how information, energy and materials are utilised within large complex systems and to discover new novel approaches for increasing economic resiliency.
3. The Center for Biologically Inspired Design aims to take advantage and knowledge from strategies by which biological systems, at levels from ranging from cells to ecosystems, providing principles that can be used to solve complex challenges in the design and manufacturing of human systems from products to city infrastructure.
Connect with: Professor Beril Toktay to find out more about the the circular economy relevant work at Georgia Tech - beril.toktay@scheller.gatech.edu
Find out more: Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and Center for Biologically Inspired Design.
Founded in 1885 and based in Atlanta, Georgia Tech is ranked among the world's leading technological research universities, the institute's mission is to improve the human condition through advanced science and technology.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. We develop and promote the idea of a circular economy, and work with business, academia, policymakers, and institutions to mobilise systems solutions at scale, globally.
Charity Registration No.: 1130306
OSCR Registration No.: SC043120
Company No.: 6897785
Ellen MacArthur Foundation ANBI RSIN nummer: 8257 45 925
The work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is supported by our Strategic Partners and Partners.