Systemic Design: How to Compete by Leveraging the Value System

Sustainability interfaces with the economy through the social and ecological consequences of economic activities. Furthermore, the culture of food lends strategic value to the food system with its economic, social, cultural, and environmental implications. Systemic Design (SD) designs material and energy flows, investigating positive changes in productive processes and activating a new economic model based on open industrial cycles. Firms can build new and strong competitive advantages for themselves and for the territory in which they operate, and this result can be achieved going beyond environmental concerns (environmental responsibility).