Imagine a world where all products are services. Instead of buying new expensive gear for every adventure – gear you might never use again – you rent it. Rather than buying a fleet of brand new bikes every time your children grow a few inches, you subscribe to a bike replacement service. And when you don’t have time to keep up with the latest fashion trends, you can rely on a clothing subscription service, rather than an overstuffed wardrobe. Imagine a world where renting, leasing or subscribing to a service gives you access to better experiences more customized products or even saves you money.
Sounds crazy? At LAUNCH, we don’t think so! We think it’s time to build the world we want to live in. But we can’t do it alone! This year LAUNCH invites up to 10 innovators to make sustainable lifestyles and a truly Circular Society a reality.
The Challenge is open for submissions until deadline September 1st, 2018. Learn more and submit your innovation here.
This year, LAUNCH has teamed up with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Disruptive Innovation Festival on announcing the 2018 LAUNCH Innovation Challenge. This year the focus of the Challenge is on Customer Engagement and New Business Models for a Circular Society. The announcement took place at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Annual Summit in London today, June 21st 2018.
What happens if you get selected?
Selected innovators will have the opportunity to present their innovation to members of the LAUNCH network at the LAUNCH Forum, to be held on December 5-6, 2018. The Forum is a facilitated multi-day event connecting innovators with investment partners, market leaders, and technical experts as well as philanthropic, NGO, and public sector actors committed to accelerating the adoption and scale of solutions. To learn more about the Challenge, nominate an innovator, or submit an innovation, visit launch.org/circular.
If you want to know more about what you gain as an innovator and what innovations we are looking for, you can download the full Challenge statement here [link to the 2-pager: https://www.launch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/LAUNCH-Circular-Innovation-Challenge-2018.pdf].
For more information about LAUNCH Circular and this year’s challenge contact Sofus Midtgaard, Director LAUNCH Circular +45 30 220 111, sofus@launch.org – for more information about LAUNCH visit www.launch.org or contact Kristin Coates, Executive Director @ +1 415 465 5533, kristin@launch.org.