The Ellen MacArthur Foundation will stage the first Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) in 2014, bringing together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy. Over four weeks using a mix of online and face-to-face events participants have an abundance of opportunities to explore the economy through a different lens.
The Wealth from Waste Cluster is identifying Australian opportunities to derive value from recycling above ground resources in ‘urban mines’, enhanced by the introduction of national product stewardship legislation. Novel science, which connects social, economic and institutional dimensions to industrial ecology models, underpins the research.
