Chapter 6Towards the Digitalization of the Waste Industry
In thinking about the microeconomics of information technology – or, of biotechnology, new materials, and other developing “generic” and systemic technologies – one often is prone to suffer from a kind of “telescopic vision”: the possible future appears both closer at hand and more vivid than the necessary intervening, temporally more proximate events on the path leading to that destination.
— Paul A. David, Department of Economics Stanford University (in 1989)
6.1 FROM WASTE MANAGEMENT TO RESOURCE INNOVATION
Change is always hard work. Organizations evolve over time to serve a purpose in a certain way. When the way is winding, structures and processes need to follow. This can be quite painful and frustrating. If you talk to almost any waste management organization anywhere in the world, you will soon get to learn about the difficulties of meeting regulatory requirements, ...
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