Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy
Электронный научный архив УРФУ
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Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy
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Akberdina, V.
Strielkowski, W. Linder, N. Kashirin, S. Shmeleva, L. |
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY
DIGITALIZATION ENERGY EFFICIENCY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERNET OF THINGS SMES DECISION MAKING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS ECONOMICS ENERGY UTILIZATION INTERNET OF THINGS INVESTMENTS BUSINESS COMPANIES CIRCULAR ECONOMY CLOSED-LOOP DIGITAL MANUFACTURING DIGITALIZATION ENERGY USAGE FOSSIL ENERGY MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES RUSSIAN FEDERATION SME ENERGY EFFICIENCY |
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Information technologies possess the significant potential to improve the efficiency of resources and optimize energy usage, as well as make a significant contribution to the sustainable circular economy (CE). The concept of digital sufficiency provides a framework for understanding how information technology can be part of significant achievements in the circular economy, especially when embraced by business companies. Moreover, the possibility of the implementation of closed-loop resources has become possible with the development of digital manufacturing technologies. However, the research of establishing the CE in SMEs, especially in fossil-energy-abundant countries, such as the Russian Federation, is quite limited. Our paper fills in this gap by studying the adoption of CE practices as well as the investments for promoting CE in Russian SMEs through such factors as the existence of R&D, bank loans, and access to grants at the national and international level. It achieves this based on the data sample of 314 managers of Russian SMEs. Our results demonstrate that the investment or existence of R&D in SMEs and knowledge of CE as well the governmental funding and access to wider markets all together tend to have a significant and positive effect on implementing and investing into CE in SMEs, while the administrative barriers yield a small but negative effect. These results might be helpful for the relevant stakeholders in order to identify factors catalyzing attention from both the SMEs engaged in CE transitions, as well as help the decision makers wishing to foster the transformation of the SMEs to a circular economy. We can conclude that supporting SMEs (both financially and via increasing their public awareness) to make their own transitions towards CE has a societal effect that can speed up a greener transition and significantly contribute to increasing energy efficiency. © 2023 by the authors.
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2024-04-05T16:15:19Z
2024-04-05T16:15:19Z 2023 |
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Article
Journal article (info:eu-repo/semantics/article) |info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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Akberdina, V, Strielkowski, W, Linder, N, Kashirin, S & Shmeleva, L 2023, 'Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy', Energies, Том. 16, № 3, 1399. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031399
Akberdina, V., Strielkowski, W., Linder, N., Kashirin, S., & Shmeleva, L. (2023). Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy. Energies, 16(3), [1399]. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031399 1996-1073 Final All Open Access, Gold https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85147856728&doi=10.3390%2fen16031399&partnerID=40&md5=4881f6449ca1419556e38900c3e368d8 https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1399/pdf?version=1675153438 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/130192 10.3390/en16031399 85147856728 |
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en
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Open access (info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess)
cc-by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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application/pdf
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MDPI
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Energies
Energies |
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