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Katherine Whalen

Senior Researcher

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+46 10 228 40 57

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katherine.whalen@ri.se

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Stockholm

Katherine Whalen is a Researcher in Sustainable Business at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She earned her PhD in Industrial Environmental Economics from Lund University in 2020. Her focus at RISE is on circular economy, particularly in the areas of product design and business model innovation. Prior to joining RISE, Katherine contributed to multiple EU-funded consortium projects including the development of educational content for the online course ‘Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management’ and for the start-up coaching program 'C-BOOT/ Bootcamp for Starting Entrepreneurs in a Circular Economy'. She is also host of the Getting in the Loop podcast and creator of two circular economy games.

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Cross-Country Insights on Circular Business Model Adoption

Why do some circular business models succeed while similar others do not? This project explores key factors influencing adoption through comparative case studies in Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, and the USA, integrating business…

Circular Co-Creation Games

Can games be used to co-create new circular business model ideas with customers? And for circular companies to find each other and start collaborating? That is what we are exploring in the project “Game-Based Approaches to Create …

Measuring circular business models

How do we measure the cost effectiveness of circular economy? Does higher circular economy performance increase demand? How do we increase the spread of circular business models in society (via measurement)? These are the themes f…

Circularity Metrics in Business

For circular business models to succeed, there is a need to set benchmarks, identify performance indicators, and adjust strategies to monitor progress. Finding circular economy indicators that are easy to apply and communicate is …

Tools for the circular transition

There are many tools and methods for circular business development and design that can help companies make the transition from a linear to a circular business. However, it is not always easy to find the right tool for a specific n…

Game design, development & gamification

At RISE we work with games from a cross-disciplinary perspective. We design and develop games for a variety of use cases, both for educational and learning (so called educational and serious games), for leisure or to inspire behav…

Circular Business Models

By basing business models and value propositions on a circular logic, companies can reduce their environmental impact while strengthening their business. Instead of producing material products with primary resources and offering t…

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

Circular financing

Circular financing is a new and exciting research area that covers how financing, financial markets and financial actors are affected by a transition from a linear to a circular economy in theory and practice, at all lev…