Building repair and reuse into business models

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In this edited essay extract Ben Peace from the Knowledge Transfer Network examines how business model innovation could open the door for a new type of customer-product relationship

Over this week BusinessGreen will be exclusively syndicating extracts from a new essay collection on greening the UK's supply chain. The essays, compiled by the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource...

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