The document discusses the development of Luxembourg's economy over time from an agricultural to industrial base to a current focus on the financial sector and key innovative sectors. It describes the major research and development players in Luxembourg including Luxinnovation and various ministries and business groups. Luxinnovation provides services to support public grants, sector development, and entrepreneurship. The document focuses on the Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster, an organization with over 100 member companies working in areas like renewable energy, mobility, and sustainable cities. It advocates for a circular economy approach and provides several examples of circular economy projects and initiatives underway in Luxembourg.

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Luxembourg – Constant evolution
1850 1900 1950 1980 2000
AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRIALISATION –
IRON AND STEEL
INDUSTRIAL
DIVERSIFICATION
FINANCIAL SECTOR FOCUS ON KEY
INNOVATIVE SECTORS

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Major RDI players in Luxembourg

4. Luxinnovation : a private-public partnership
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CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
CHAMBRE
DES METIERS
FEDIL
BUSINESS
FEDERATION
LUXEMBOURG
MINISTRY
OF HIGHER EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH
MINISTRY
OF THE ECONOMY

5. LUXINNOVATION services
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3
main services
Access to
public grants
> National
> European
Sector
development
Entrepreneurship
Support
> Start-up creation
> SME Performance
• INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
• DESIGN AND CREATIVITY
• TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
• H2020 / NCP

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Economy
Ecology
EcoInnovation
“Positive Impact”
Marcel Klesen

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123 members,
110 companies
Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster
Renew. energy, water treatment, consulting, construction
mobility, biomass, waste treatment, smart grid, engineering, …

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Mobility
Sustainable Cities &
Smart TechnologiesCircular Economy
epea
Identify – Connect – Realise
3 Topics
Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster

9. Circular Economy
A circular economy is an
alternative to a traditional
linear economy (= make,
use, waste) in which we
keep resources in use for
as long as possible,
extract the maximum value
from them whilst in use,
then recover and
regenerate products and
materials at the end of
each service life.
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Biological Cycle
Consumption Products
Biosphere Technosphere
Technical Cycle
Service Products

10. Why Circular Economy?
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.....is it about going green?
It’s about this kind of green

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• Decoupling growth from resource consumption
• Growing and consuming, but with a fixed or renewable stock of
materials
• Conception for disassembling, return, reuse, repair, refurbish,...
• “Sell services, not products.”
• Material banking
• It is a global and cross-sector approach
• Product responsibility stays with the manufacturer
• Replace raw material costs with labour costs
• Products are stocks of well defined reusable materials
• It is not about a perfect circle
Circular Economy - Key messages

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Circular Economy - Potential
• Generate €300 million to €1 billion EUR
annual net-material cost savings
• 2.200 jobs especially for young unemployed
in the next years if robustly applied in the
construction, automotive, manufacturing,
financial, logistics, R&D, and administrative
sectors.
• Being less independent on the financial
sector.

13. Circular Economy - Action plan examples
• EcoBusinessParc
• Construction & excavation waste program
• Residential Building Pilot
• Database on material flow
• Reverse logistics
• CE Finance initiative (KPMG)
• LCA / balance sheet
• ECEN / European Circular Economy Network
• Fit4Circularity
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Circular Economy

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• “Solarwind” Smart Building
BREEAM (UK), HQE (F), DGNB (G)
• Ecoparc Windhof
“C2C BIZZ”
www.solarwind.lu
Circular Economy

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• Concept “Hollerich”
Circular Economy

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• «Neobuild» – Innovation Center for
Sustainable Construction
Circular Economy
….smart building, intelligent building, urban farming, renew.
energies, innovative materials and technologies
“Testing field”

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Circular Economy – “Circular HotSpot Wiltz”
….Design school, sharing
potential, pooling,
construction,
repair café, disassembling,
services,
shared spaces,
renew. energy, mobility,
materials, resources,
(waste), water treatment,
logistic, …
 creating growth / wealth
“the human being”

19. ……, Keep in mind
Circular Economy
Clear strategy
Strong network
Positive impact for the sector and the companies
through integrated economy solutions
Business opportunities
(national and international)
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Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster

20. The Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster is powered by:
www.ecoinnovationcluster.lu
LUXINNOVATION benefits
from the support of:
Marcel Klesen
Head of Energy an Environment Sector
Manager Luxembourg EcoInnovation Cluster
LUXINNOVATION GIE
5, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux
L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette
T (+352) 43 62 63 - 651
M (+352) 621 348 057
marcel.klesen@luxinnovation.lu
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Thank you!
Questions and answers