Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1399" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1399</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16031399" target="_blank" >10.3390/en16031399</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Information Technology and Digital Sufficiency for Building the Sustainable Circular Economy

Original language description

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. 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 and 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 and 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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energies

ISSN

1996-1073

e-ISSN

1996-1073

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

000931103100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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