ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the cases were selected and analyzed and how the authors derived the business models. The starting point was the identification of 'promising' empirical resource recovery and re-use (RRR) enterprises and governmental projects. The assessment of both formal and informal RRR business cases requires significant groundwork to understand the factors that drive their success and likely sustainability, replicability and scalability barriers, particularities and opportunities. The analysis thus required the development of a suitable methodology, taking into consideration different types of readers, as well as both the micro- and macro-environment that cases operate in, while being flexible to cope with possible data gaps. The key objective for the assessment of existing RRR business cases was to understand their success, drivers, challenges and sustainability strategies and, based on these cases, construct generic business models with the potential for scaling up and out in other settings.
