Value Chain Development & Innovation
A sustainable value chain is the foundation of resilient business. For your business, this means rethinking how your company creates value and ensuring competitiveness in the green transition.
How?
By mapping your strengths, resources, and customer needs, we will identify new opportunities and build resilience in a low‑carbon economy.
Our approach draws on 12 years of experience and co-creation methods, combining learning, creating and challenging ourselves to reach beyond the current perspectives.
Ecodesign and Circular Product Passports
Are you ready for the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)?
Ethica has worked with hundreds of companies on circular product/service design. We can help you get started with tailored Circular Design Sprints – a quick deep-dive into circular design strategies – or help you to scale up and transform your entire product offerings to comply with the ecodesign requirements and deliver new customer value. Our offerings include:
- integrating circularity into new products development processes or existing product optimization projects
- creating circular design guidelines, scorecards and tools
- creating R&D transformation roadmaps for scaling circular design throughout your product portfolio to ensure compliance and sustainable leadership
- delivering digital product passports (DPP) in collaboration with our DPP technology partners (learn more here)
How?
Embed circularity where it matters most. We partner with your R&D, design, and customer‑interface teams to upgrade existing products/services or build new.
Expertise for Publicly Funded Projects
Publicly funded projects thrive when partners work together to combine expertise, networks, and resources. As part of a consortium with Ethica, you gain the opportunity to co‑create strategies, roadmaps, and targets that make circular business models both ambitious and achievable.
How?
By engaging your organization alongside with Ethica as a partner, you ensure that critical business processes align with new circular models. This collaborative approach strengthens the impact of the project and meets the expectations of funders, stakeholders, and end‑users.
Circular Design Programme
A proven model for accelerating circular business – adaptable to your region and industry. The Circular Design Programme is a six to eight-month development journey designed to help companies move from pilots to scalable circular solutions. It is built on the success of Finland’s National Circular Design Programme for 50 front-runner companies.
The Programme aligns companies with EU regulation and market shifts (Ecodesign, Digital Product Passports, Right to Repair) and moves participants from experimentation to implementation across product and service portfolios.
How?
The programme combines executive and R&D learning tracks, ensuring leadership and product teams progress together.
- R&D track for circular product & service design, embedding durability, repairability, and reuse
- Executive track for business model & system design, aligning operations and partnerships for scalability & turning circularity into market value
Adaptable to your context: Content can be tailored to different industries, countries, and partner ecosystems. Wherever in the globe, the programme creates a structured pathway for companies to accelerate their circular transition and build resilience in the green economy.
