Workshop 3: Digital Innovations in the Circular Economy: Shaping a Circular Future

Description

The development of circular business practices places high demands on the design of efficient and flexible information systems. Information systems research makes a significant contribution by developing solutions that integrate digital innovations, technical requirements, and human behaviour patterns in interdisciplinary contexts. This workshop track invites contributions from the field of information systems that demonstrate how digital technologies can be effectively designed for the circular economy and applied in collaboration with other disciplines—such as engineering, materials science, environmental science, or sustainability studies.

The focus is on concepts, architectures, and use cases that harness the interdisciplinary potential of information systems in business models, business processes, ecosystems, data spaces, or digital product passports for the circular economy.

The goal of the track is to reflect on experiences from interdisciplinary projects, highlight best practices, and systematically identify open research questions. We welcome contributions that illustrate how collaboration with other disciplines supports the closing of material loops—for example, through integrated data infrastructures, software-supported decision-making processes, new forms of digital business models, or by identifying recurring challenges and research gaps that have not yet been adequately addressed.

Both academic contributions and practice-oriented case studies that offer insights into concrete implementations are welcome. The submission format is open and includes full papers, short papers, and extended abstracts. The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to keynote presentations, while the second part will consist of a structured discussion round and the joint identification and consolidation of key research gaps.