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Where Do We Go from Here?

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This chapter summarises the main findings and lessons learned, highlights and generalises the main contributions, and indicates potential paths for future research.

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    This topic was initially explored in Vezzoli et al. (2008) and further developed in Ceschin (2010, 2012) and Ceschin et al. (2011).

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Ceschin, F. (2014). Where Do We Go from Here?. In: Sustainable Product-Service Systems. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03795-0_5

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